Goldman Sachs Global Banking & Markets Operations - Regulatory 

United States, New York, New York 

179555010

Responsibilities

• Lead complex and high-priority projects, and manage sponsors and stakeholders with competing priorities, resourcing levels and time constraints across all typical project phases:
  • Project initiation and scoping, including definition of plans and setting and managing realistic expectations for successful delivery with project stakeholder
  • Business analysis and requirements definition
  • Testing and implementation, in particular user acceptance testing
  • Ongoing project management and quality assurance throughout the project
  • Build and manage relationships with key project stakeholders in Operations, Technology and Business
• Work with Operations business units to assess and streamline processes in order to mitigate risk or control issues and generate efficiencies
• Provide support and advice to Operations management and project teams on project management tools and methods

Experience / Skills / Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree
• 8-10 years of professional experience – required
• 2 years of project management experience
• Be a motivated, energetic team player
• Have a proven track record of scoping and driving delivery of projects and achieving results independently on time and to budget including
  • Strong analytical skills and project management technical skills
  • Project scope definition
  • Project issues, challenges, risks definition
  • Status reporting
  • Development of high quality deliverables
  • Great organization skills - ability to handle multiple tasks, prioritize accordingly and make decisions as required
  • Attention to detail and ability to work to tight deadlines under pressure and to provide practical solution
• Ability to work in project teams to help formulate the implications of a specific solution across the process, e.g. costs, risk, potential for re-use of services developed, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to work across products, regions and functions, preferably in the financial services industry
• Demonstrate excellent people management skills and ability to influence key stakeholders outside their direct control
• Be highly collaborative, team-oriented and strong consensus builder
• Demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills both written and oral
• Strategic thinker with strong business analysis and planning skills. Capable of identifying and interpreting wider-ranging issues:
  • ‘Big picture’ understanding
  • Provides creative & innovative solutions
  • Ability to formulate the implications of a specific solution across processes, e.g. costs, risk, service
• Demonstrate confidence in interaction with senior stakeholders
• Be a strategic thinker, able to lead project working groups, possessing strong facilitation and data gathering skills, and able to provide creative & innovative solutions
• Demonstrate understanding of Operations processes and procedures and an ability to learn quickly – knowledge of processes related to Operations or the Financial Services industry would be an advantage.
• Previous experience ideally from financial services and / or management consulting
• Be proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Project, Visio and Sharepoint (BPM through Signavio and Aletryx preferred)