Mizuho Financial

Central Project Manager

Mizuho Financial$81K — $120K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of project management experience in enterprise IT infrastructure
  • Proven expertise in project governance and portfolio management
  • Strong knowledge of risk, issue and change management practices
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Ability to develop standardized project initiation artifacts and reporting mechanisms

Responsibilities

  • Partner with infrastructure leads and project sponsors to manage project intake and qualification
  • Develop initiation artifacts like project charters and high-level scope definitions
  • Ensure projects meet readiness criteria before execution
  • Maintain visibility and oversight of project-level risks and issues
  • Produce standardized reports for project and portfolio health
  • Present project status updates, incorporating stakeholder feedback
  • Contribute to the development of PMO standards and best practices

Benefits

  • Flexible working environment with hybrid work options
  • Generous employee benefits package
  • Eligibility for discretionary bonus based on performance
  • Focus on continuous improvement within the PMO
  • Exposure to executive-level stakeholders and decision-making processes
Full Job Description
The Central Project Manager supports enterprise infrastructure initiatives by providing governance, coordination, and portfolio-level project management services across multiple infrastructure towers. This role focuses on project intake, initiation, dependency management, risk oversight, and standardized reporting rather than day-to-day task execution. The position operates within the Infrastructure PMO and ensures projects align with established governance, documentation, and delivery standards.

Key Responsibilities:

Project Intake, Initiation & Planning
  • Partner with infrastructure tower leads, project sponsors, and technical owners to support project intake, qualification, and tiering
  • Lead or contribute to the development of standardized initiation artifacts, including project charters, business requirements (where applicable), high-level scope definitions, ROM cost estimates, and initial risk assessments
  • Ensure projects meet defined readiness criteria prior to execution, including required documentation, stakeholder alignment, and funding/resource visibility


Risk, Issue & Change Management Oversight
  • Maintain visibility of project-level risks, issues, and dependencies, contributing to infrastructure-wide RAID and change logs
  • Support project change assessments by coordinating impact analysis on scope, schedule, cost, and risk, and facilitating required governance approvals


Status, Reporting & Communication
  • Produce standardized weekly and monthly project and portfolio reporting using approved templates and designated systems of record
  • Present consolidated views of project health, schedule variance, budget posture, and execution risks for leadership consumption. Incorporate stakeholder and leadership feedback into ongoing reporting and project oversight


PMO Standards & Continuous Improvement
  • Contribute to the development and adoption of Infrastructure PMO standards, templates, and best practices
  • Reinforce compliance with Project Management & Governance policies, processes, and audit requirements


Required Skills:

Functional: Project & Portfolio Governance, Project Initiation & Planning, Risk, Issue, Change Management, PMO Standards & Compliance, Reporting & Transparency

Professional: Executive Communication, Structured Thinking & Judgement, Stakeholder Management, Accountability & Discipline

The expected base salary ranges from $81k-$120k. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including relevant skills, training, experience, education, and, where applicable, certifications and licenses obtained. Market and organizational factors are also considered. In addition to salary and a generous employee benefits package, successful candidates are eligible to receive a discretionary bonus.

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Other requirements

Mizuho has in place a hybrid working program, with varying opportunities for remote work depending on the nature of the role, needs of your department, as well as local laws and regulatory obligations. Roles in some of our departments have greater in-office requirements that will be communicated to you as part of the recruitment process

About Mizuho Financial

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. is a Japanese banking holding company headquartered in the ?temachi district of Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The name "mizuho" literally means "abundant rice" in Japanese. It holds assets in excess of $1.8 trillion US dollars through its control of Mizuho Bank, Mizuho Corporate Bank, and other operating subsidiaries. The company's combined holdings form the second largest financial services group in Japan. Its banking businesses rank third in Japan after Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group. It is the 15th largest banking institution in the world by total assets as of December 2018.
Learn more about Mizuho Financial
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54,492 employees
Market Cap
$35 billion
Industry
Net Income
$84.4 billion
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