Project Manager

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About Us

Kyriba is a global leader in liquidity performance that empowers CFOs, Treasurers and IT leaders to connect, protect, forecast and optimize their liquidity. As a secure and scalable SaaS solution, Kyriba brings intelligence and financial automation that enables companies and banks of all sizes to improve their financial performance and increase operational efficiency. Kyriba’s real-time data and AI-empowered tools empower its 3,000 customers worldwide to quantify exposures, project cash and liquidity, and take action to protect balance sheets, income statements and cash flows. Kyriba manages more than 3.5 billion bank transactions and $15 trillion in payments annually and gives customers complete visibility and actionability, so they can optimize and fully harness liquidity across the enterprise and outperform their business strategy. For more information, visit www.kyriba.com.

About Kyriba: 

Kyriba empowers CFOs and their teams to transform how they activate liquidity as a dynamic, real-time vehicle for growth and value creation, while also protection against financial risk. Kyriba’s pioneering Active Liquidity Network connects internal applications for treasury, risk, payments and working capital with vital external sources such as banks, ERPs, trading platforms, and market data providers. 

About The Role: 

Join a dynamic team of Professional Services individuals who help client’s gain more control over their treasury, risk & liquidity operations, and processes.  The Project Manager is a key contributor managing all aspects of projects from initial client engagement to go-live. You will have expertise in on-boarding for new clients, have strong project management skills, as well as an affinity for the management of technical tasks with clients. You will have an opportunity to take on interesting and challenging projects and work across industries and geographies.  You will be involved in project work, business development and other activities including personalized training, to help you grow as a project manager.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Co-ordinate day-to-day project delivery, manage project scope, budgets, delivery timelines and resource allocations for a portfolio of small to medium sized projects

• Ensure proper database access is submitted

• Ownership of updating key project fields in Open Air project management software

• Collaborate with Professional Service Operations team on reporting and process improvements

• Document process flow and procedure guides for VAS processes

• Leverage technology and process automaton to improve existing process

• Update planned hours and go-live dates in Open Air system

• Manage and update tracking spreadsheets

• Weekly timesheet follow-up and reporting

• Establish a trusting relationship with customers and partners

• Maintain project metrics and health in Kyriba’s PSA tool, including estimated go-live dates and budgets

• Monitor project hours and financial budgets, and communicate project budget consumption

• Manage projects to agreed scope and manage changes via a risk, issue and change log shared with the client and project team

• Develop straightforward project timelines that ensures project goals are met and actionable tasks are clearly defined with owners

• Proactively manage risks, issues and changes

• Conduct regular project oversight meetings with clients, project team and other stakeholders

• Review and approve timesheets of implementation consultants working on owned projects in a timely manner

• Review and approve client consulting invoices for owned projects

• Develop a functional knowledge of the Kyriba software and integration methods via Kyriba Academy training

• Apply Kyriba Implementation Methodology and Project Management best practices to all client implementations 

• Ensure all tasks and deliverables are completed based on project plans and progress is tracked in project management software 

• Coordinate customer invoice or billing disputes with Finance, Customer, and internal team

• Ensure timesheets are entered accurately and on-time

• Maintain a billable utilization rate of 50% 

Education, Experience and Skills:

• 2 – 4+ years’ project management experience preferred in SaaS implementations,  treasury management system implementations, professional services or other relevant experience

• PMP, Prince2 or other project management certification is a plus

• Knowledge in the following functions is a plus: Cash Management & Forecasting, Connectivity, Payments, FX Exposure Management, Financial Transactions, General Ledger, Financial Accounting, Hedge Accounting, ERP Integrations & Risk Management

• Baccalaureate or Graduate degree in Business, Management, Finance or relevant work experience

• Previous experience with implementing TMS, FinTech, SaaS, ERP or Financial Systems is a plus

• Critical thinking and out-of-the box solution approach

• Strong verbal, written and presentation skills 

• Ability to work under tight deadlines

• Team player, be able to multi-task, be flexible and adaptable