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Manager ITS Sr Process\ Project Quality Mngt

Job Description:
At KPMG we run our firm just as effectively as we support and strengthen our clients' businesses. That means hiring talented people to help develop and manage our brand, publish our thought leadership, control our finances, run our IT infrastructure, and support our professionals in the field. There are great opportunities to build your career within our business. KPMG is a great place to build your career. We are currently seeking Managers, IT Project and Process Quality Management to join us in our Montvale office.

Responsibilities:
• Plan, document, and implement the Project and Process Quality Management (PPQM) process, promoting an environment that encourages identifying and reporting quality issues
• Assess project activity and project management work products throughout the lifecycle to provide early detection of improvement opportunities and recommend corrective actions that comply with process requirements and quality standards
• Act as the steward for the PPQM discipline, provide ongoing quality management content leadership, and establish quality management processes and tools
• Maintain quality templates, process guidelines, and sample artifacts
• Develop project Quality Assurance (QA) plans, analyzing risks to determine PPQM strategies, leverage project team process maturity to minimize PPQM tasks, and establish clear assessment criteria including frequency, methods, metrics, and project personnel involvement
• Mentor project teams on self-assessment strategies to address noncompliance issues
• Identify and document noncompliance issues and escalate those that cannot be resolve
• Collate compliance performance metrics and generate status and dashboard reports for project teams and leadership
• Prepare and deliver PPQM process training sessions

Qualifications:
• Five years of progressive Information Technology(IT) full project lifecycle methodology experience with an emphasis on process quality, compliance, and process improvement
• Strong track record of performing process and product quality assurance and compliance assessments that achieved process improvement goals
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university
• Experience with full SDLC, infrastructure, and project methodologies, processes, and best practices such as custom development, COTS implementation, requirements development and testing, PMBOK, Prince2, ASAP, Agile, Scrum
• Strong knowledge of quality standards such as Six Sigma, ITIL, and CMMI; certification preferred
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact with all levels in an organization


KPMG offers and supports flexible work arrangements as well as part-time schedules. We also offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package.

Interested? We strongly encourage you to apply online at www.kpmgcareers.com and search for requisition 20847 or click the job link below.

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Information Technology Services (ITS) is the internal IT arm of KPMG. It provides integrated IT services to the firm, but does not provide direct service to clients. It encompasses global, national and practice-based components working together to meet or exceed client, business and regulatory requirements and deliver priority projects to KPMG member firms worldwide. Resources across ITS are combined to seamlessly provide services effectively and efficiently to KPMG’s competitive advantage.
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