Guidewire PM - Senior Associate

A career within Functional and Industry Technologies services will provide you with the opportunity to build secure and new digital experiences for customers, employees, and suppliers. We focus on improving apps or developing new apps for traditional and mobile devices as well as conducting usability testing to find ways to improve our clients' user experience. As part of our team, you'll help clients harness technology systems in financial services focusing on areas such as insurance, sales performance management, retirement and pension, asset management, and banking & capital markets.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Senior Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.
• Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
• Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.
• Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.
• Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
• Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
• Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Job Requirements and Preferences:

Basic Qualifications:

Minimum Degree Required:

Bachelor Degree

Minimum Years of Experience:

2 year(s)

Preferred Qualifications:

Preferred Fields of Study:

Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer and Information Science, Management Information Systems, Data Processing/Analytics/Science, Economics

Certification(s) Preferred:

Experience and/or certification in SAFe Agile, Six Sigma, IT Service Management / ITIL, and Project Management Professional (PMP)

Preferred Knowledge/Skills:

Demonstrates thorough abilities and/or proven track record in various project lifecycle processes of plan, monitor and control activities such as:

• Scope, schedule, and budget management of large-scale, complex, transformation programs;
• Planning management: backlog grooming, capacity and demand planning, sprint work allocation, critical path management, change requests, dependence management;
• Communications management: status reporting, stakeholder reporting, progress tracking, program wide updates;
• Stakeholder management and governance: maintaining relationships with key stakeholders, facilitating periodic stakeholder updates, establishing governance structure;
• Agile sprint ceremony facilitation: sprint demo oversight, sprint retrospectives, stand-up execution;
• Resource and vendor management: staffing, talent identification and grooming, on-boarding / off-boarding, 3rd party vendor coordination;
• Financial management: capital budgeting, cost modeling, actual vs. budget variance analysis;
• Issue and risk management: RAID log maintenance, issue and risk identification, impact analysis and prioritization, escalation and mitigation;
• Knowledge management: organizing the array of information across various facets of the program, establishing the structure, and facilitating the transition of knowledge as required;
• Organizational change management: understanding and experience with OCM efforts such as change management, stakeholder analysis, communications, training, and resistance management;
• Creation and maintenance of PMO tools, templates, and processes as it relates to the aforementioned areas as well as platforms such as Jira, Rally, Azure DevOps, MS Project, ServiceNow, Confluence, Smartsheet and related tools; and,
• In-depth experience with MS Office platform, Google Suite, Business Intelligence toolsets (e.g. PowerBI, Tableau, etc.).

Demonstrates thorough abilities and/or proven track record in Property and Casualty insurance and experience and involvement with policy administration transformation programs and business applications such as:

• Policy administration;
• Claim management;
• Billing;
• Agency / customer portals;
• Reinsurance;
• Enterprise data warehouse; and,
• Document management systems (production, imaging, storage) - as a functional user or as a business system analyst.

Demonstrates a thorough level of abilities with, and/or a proven record of success as both an individual contributor and team member, identifying and addressing client needs by:

• Building impactful relationships with clients;
• Developing an awareness of Firm services;
• Communicating with the client in an organized and knowledgeable manner;
• Delivering clear requests for information;
• Demonstrating flexibility in prioritizing and completing tasks;
• Communicating potential conflicts to a supervisor;
• Managing teams and/or workstreams on an engagements, staying educated on current trends and assisting in the development of knowledge capital;
• Collaborating with business development teams responsible for writing and presenting proposals to prospective clients;
• Presenting to senior executives, with the ability to develop lasting relationships;
• Understanding personal and team roles;
• Building trusting relationships with team members;
• Proactively seeking guidance, clarification and feedback; and,
• Flexing work assignments to achieve team goals.

At PwC, our work model includes three ways of working: virtual, in-person, and flex (a hybrid of in-person and virtual). Visit the following link to learn more: https://pwc.to/ways-we-work.

PwC does not intend to hire experienced or entry level job seekers who will need, now or in the future, PwC sponsorship through the H-1B lottery, except as set forth within the following policy: https://pwc.to/H-1B-Lottery-Policy.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment at PwC without regard to race; creed; color; religion; national origin; sex; age; disability; sexual orientation; gender identity or expression; genetic predisposition or carrier status; veteran, marital, or citizenship status; or any other status protected by law. PwC is proud to be an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer.

For positions based in San Francisco, consideration of qualified candidates with arrest and conviction records will be in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

For positions in Albany (NY), California, Colorado, Nevada, New York City, Washington State, or Westchester County (NY), please visit the following link for pay range information: https://pwc.to/payrange-v1-advisoryseniorassociate