Citi Group Project Manager - Regulatory Change AVP 

United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Belfast 

699108213

Seeking a seasoned professional with a proven track record of Program/Portfolio Management within the Securities Markets and Banking (SMB) Technology, Banking or Consultancy industry. In this fast-paced environment, you must be able to prioritize tasks, work within deadlines, taking a pragmatic and considered approach, paying close attention to details, you will need to employ strong oral and written communication skills. Supporting project teams to deliver on tight deadlines. Documentation preparation & review, strong knowledge of SDLC methodologies(Waterfall/Traditional,Agile & Hybrid) required.

Key Responsibilities

This role will be accountable for the following responsibilities:

• Define program scope and objectives, gather, analyze, validate and manage program and project requirements.
• Drive the creation of clear requirements documents using a structured analysis methodology.
• Liaise with relevant project stakeholders within the technology and business teams across SMB to create an overall delivery plan.
• Support the technical leads in the planning, tracking and execution of the Regulatory deliverables and commitments.
• Support and report on the project progress using the standard templates and tools available.
• Establish and maintain best practices and Citi approved PPM procedures across all projects.
• Enforce a culture of SDLC best practices across the technology teams.
• Foster an environment that encourages partnering, teamwork and communications across O&T and business partners.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills is essential to effectively communicate issues, risks and progress on complex processes to multiple stakeholders.
• Self-initiate, work productively when unsupervised and multitask across multiple concurrent projects.
• Has the confidence and ability to convincingly structure, summarize, defend, and present recommendations to stakeholders at all levels.

Knowledge/Experience

• Experience in project planning, tracking, delivery, and reporting.
• Operations and/or IT experience, Financial markets product knowledge(Rates/FX/ETD/SpreadProducts/Commodities/Equities/Loans)including knowledge of front-to-back trade flow processing and a broad range of investment banking products and trade lifecycles.
• Experience of working as BA / PM in Front Office Function or Operations is preferred.
• Knowledge of Dodd-Frank framework and applicability to markets products

Skills

• Proven experience in delivering cross asset Regulatory transformation / change and software development (SDLC) projects involving Front to Back systems flows.
• Expert level experience with SDLC processes –Agile/Waterfall methodology
• Expert level experience with managing large projects, tasks, workflow and reporting using various tools such as Jira.
• Comfortable in using Project Management tools such as Planview, Microsoft Project, etc.
• Strong analytical skills and experience in working with large project management data sets to uncover insights is preferred.
• Strong listening, presentation, communication, and influencing skills. Articulates with confidence to senior management.
• Highly adept and dynamic leader with the ability to provide structure and governance when overall delivery involves multiple teams working in a coordinated manner.
• Strong team building and management skills.
• Strong attention to detail in supporting management reporting with clear and concise data analysis and presentation.
• Highly motivated and self-directed; exhibits thought leadership and strong critical thinking skills.
• Strong EXCEL, PowerPoint and Project skills.

Qualifications

• Educated to bachelor’s degree level or equivalent.
• PMP or similar project management certification preferred.