Extensive banking or Big 4 consulting experience is must have

Position Details:     

Client: Banking     

Job Title: Senior Project Manager 

Location: New York, NY (10013) Hybrid 

Duration: 10 Months + Possible extension 

Schedule: Basic Business Hours     

Start Date: ASAP     

 
Job Description: 

• The role will be part of a Markets Program Management Team, charged with ensuring the timely execution of deliverables across all workstreams whilst imparting subject matter expertise and know-how.  
• The candidate must be an individual experienced in project management and with sufficient subject matter expertise to be able to provide meaningful solutions that are functional and sustainable. 

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Transformation / change management / PMO experience with a focus on Capital Markets initiatives to facilitate compliance with material regulatory driven change 

• Partner with the Business, Legal, Risk and Operations to facilitate redocumentation and operational readiness 

• Represent Markets Transformation across various streams of work to ensure the timely delivery of key initiatives, milestones, issue tracking, and issue remediation. 

• Communication with key stakeholders, both internal and external to the program / project, including obtaining buy-in for business process and infrastructure changes. 

• Work closely with the Markets Business and Technology teams to ensure that the data is accurate, complete, has proper data lineage, and help steer the overall data governance. 

• Analyse large datasets 

• Deliver effective, articulate, and concise presentations to senior management covering project / program status, resourcing and plans 

• Comply with all project management standards 

• Manage internal and external dependencies across initiatives, including developing collaborative relationships with Sales & Trading, Business Managers, Product Owners, Risk, Legal and Operations teams 
• Identify challenges and proactively seek to resolve or escalate risk and issues in a timely and well-articulated manner 

Key skills required:

• A minimum of 10 years’ experience in project management, preferably in a senior role. 

• Experience with Capital Markets Transformation 

• Working knowledge of Markets business and products and / or regulatory capital 

• Experience analyzing large datasets 

• Regulatory change or transformation work   

• Ability to lead a workstream   

• Good stakeholder management    

• Strong project and program management skills; ability to gain consensus among project team and stakeholders, and drive initiatives to completion effectively 

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail 

• Excellent oral and written communications skills; must be articulate and persuasive with the judgement and authority to provide insightful commentary to senior stakeholders 

• Ability to drive change to business practices by working effectively across a global organization and understand different perspectives 

• Thought leadership in target state design through engaging stakeholders at various levels of the organization 

• Demonstrated analytical skills with follow-up and problem solving capability key skills preferred 

• Experience in Risk and Regulatory related projects 

• Bachelor’s/University degree, Master’s degree preferred 

• Project Management certifications e.g. PMP or equivalent a strong plus