About Us

William O’Neil + Co. Inc., founded in 1963, is a national investment management and brokerage firm located in the Marina del Rey area.  The firm provides equity investment ideas, securities data research, analytic tools, and trading services to over 400 pension and mutual funds, hedge funds, banks, insurance companies, and corporations.

Position Summary:

William O’Neil + Co., Inc. is looking for an experienced IT Project Manager fully knowledgeable in project management techniques, including the use of negotiation skills and influence to drive projects to completion in a timely and cost effective manner.  The successful candidate will demonstrate high caliber communication and project reporting skills.

Description:

·        Provide leadership, guidance, influence and mentoring for project teams as well as a route of escalation for project related risks and issues. The Senior Project Manager will drive project related communications to Information Technologies (IT) leadership, business leadership and various project and program stakeholders to facilitate project definition, direction and status, as well as partner, with business leaders to achieve the goals of assigned projects.

·        Create and manage the project plans (Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), project-level reporting, financial management, and all appropriate documents  using Iterative, RUP, or Agile  Project Management Methodology (PMM) for a variety of projects including, but not limited to, new application deployments (Commercial, Off-The-Shelf (COTS) and custom), process improvement, application and technical upgrades, feature/function enhancements and technical infrastructure enhancements. The Senior Project Manager will lead matrix-style projects teams including, but not limited to, technical resources, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), vendor representatives, and Business Analysts to achieve the stated goals of assigned projects.

·         Insure the successful completion of assigned projects including all project related deliverables found within PMM including, but not limited to:

o       Project plans, Scope documents, Budgets, WBS’s, Project Task Schedules, Business Requirements, Technical requirements, Training Materials, Transition Documentation, Stakeholder Communications, and Support plans.

o       Identify, request, coordinate and manage project resources

o       Create, manage, and monitor Project resource assignments

o       Perform periodic project-level quality reviews:

o       Ensure project schedules, risks and issues are being maintained

o       Ensure resource assignments are clear, well understood and up-to-date

o       Coordinate dependencies, critical path items, and resource allocations across projects

o       Ensure project budgets, including ETC’s  are managed and reported

o       Ensure project, schedule, risks & issues, resource, vendor, etc. conflicts are addressed and/or escalated to key stakeholders

o       Coordinate with the Infrastructure, Applications, Data, Business End-User  teams, as well as other IT groups, for communication efforts as well as project execution efforts

o       Define determine the technical direction for the application solutions.

o       Lead and coordinate the design, development, implementation support and optimization of web-based and real-time  application systems to support critical business functions. 

o       Use object-oriented techniques and software engineering best practices including design review, code review, unit-testing, and re-factoring.

·        Mentors and provides technical leadership in collaborative design, implementation, and  testing of multi-tier software applications, web services, and database systems.

Required Skills:

·        Successful delivery of multi-year projects (budget > $3M)  2-3 times – (on-time and on-budget)

·        Must have experience preparing presentation quality documents and executive level summaries.​ Strong organizational and project management skills.​ Ability to work successfully across organizational lines and influence outcomes.​

·        Effective management of project issues and risks

·        10+ years of experience architecting & developing business critical and/or web based E-Commerce applications using .NET, WPF, and/or Java/J2EE Frameworks.

·        Experience  in  object-oriented  analysis & design, with advanced understanding  of  Enterprise design patterns, frameworks, and service-oriented architecture.

·        Expertise creating detailed application design using UML, Process Flows, Sequence Diagrams, and pseudo-code level details.

·        Must have hands-on development experience in the past (previously a developer)

·        Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written).

·        Undergraduate degree in relevant area (e.​g.​ MIS, Computer Science, Finance) is required.​

·        Has working knowledge of PMI process groups: Initiating, planning, executing, controlling and closing.​

·        Financial Services and/or Newspaper industry experience is highly desirable.​

·        Minimum of eight (8) years Project Management completing medium-sized and moderately complex projects in a complex environment

*Consulting Experience Preferred

William O’Neil + Company offers a competitive compensation package including a 401k savings plan, medical/dental/life insurance coverage, flexible spending and dependent care plan, paid sick, vacation and holidays.