Project Manager (Treasury & Payments Transformation)

Job Description

Project Manager (Treasury & Payments Transformation) | Zions Bank

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Zions Bank, located in Midvale, Utah. Zions Bancorporation’s Enterprise Technology and Operations team is dedicated to transforming the experience of working for a financial institution, providing the best possible service to its community, clients, and colleagues through a commitment to technology and innovation. This role is essential for leading strategic transformation initiatives within the Treasury and Payments organization, advancing the division’s modernization strategy, and supporting broader enterprise objectives.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person – Midvale, Utah

• Team: Treasury and Payments EPMO organization
• Mission: Lead complex, cross-functional initiatives from planning through delivery to advance modernization strategy and achieve measurable business outcomes.
• Tech Stack: Payment solutions: ACH, wires, APIs, real-time payments

What You’ll Actually Do
• Project Leadership: Lead complex, highly visible initiatives through the full project lifecycle, from initiation to closure, with a focus on customer, banker, employee, and operational experiences.
• Strategic Planning: Translate business strategies and objectives into integrated project plans with clearly defined scope, deliverables, milestones, and success criteria.
• Executive Reporting: Prepare and deliver clear, concise executive-level reports on project health, accomplishments, financial performance, risks, issues, and required leadership actions.
• Risk Management: Identify, assess, document, and actively manage project risks, issues, assumptions, constraints, and dependencies related to scope, schedule, budget, resources, or outcomes.
• Financial Management: Develop and manage project budgets, forecasts, resource capacity, financial performance, variances, and resource plans as appropriate.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Information Systems, Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience. Requires progressive project management experience within banking, financial services, Treasury Management, payments, or another complex and regulated environment.
• Experience: 6+ years of progressive project management experience, including working with Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Skills: Project lifecycle management, strategic objective translation, executive reporting, risk and issue management, budget and resource forecasting, governance and audit documentation.
• Bonus: Experience with Treasury Management, ACH, wires, APIs, or real-time payment solutions. Preferred certifications include Project Management Professional (PMP), Program Management Professional (PgMP), or PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP).