Project Manager - Real Estate Finance & Fund Operations

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to join our team and lead initiatives across real estate lending, finance, compliance, and investment fund operations.

We are looking for someone with at least 3 years of direct project management experience in financial services, real estate, or fund management who can independently manage projects from initial planning through implementation and launch.

This role requires ownership of project scope, budgets, risks, timelines, and cross-functional teams, along with the ability to improve operational processes and deliver measurable business results in a compliance-driven environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead projects across lending operations, financial reporting, compliance, and investor services from initial planning through implementation and launch.
• Define project scope, objectives, timelines, budgets, deliverables, resource requirements, and success metrics.
• Develop and maintain project plans, manage dependencies and vendor commitments, track milestones, and oversee deliverables across multiple workstreams.
• Coordinate with our lending, finance, compliance, reporting, and investor operations teams to align priorities and maintain project progress.
• Identify operational risks, compliance concerns, resource constraints, and potential delays; develop and implement mitigation plans.
• Oversee project documentation, reporting workflows, implementation requirements, and operational handoffs.
• Monitor budgets, timelines, project performance, and key decisions while providing regular updates to our executive stakeholders.
• Maintain project governance, track risks and action items, and ensure accountability for deliverables.
• Evaluate existing processes, identify inefficiencies, and implement improvements to strengthen controls, reporting accuracy, and operational performance.
• Resolve project issues, remove obstacles, and ensure initiatives meet defined business objectives within agreed timelines and budgets.