As a Project Manager within our Finance & Business Management team, you will have the opportunity to lead and deliver projects that enhance the functionality and reporting provided by our existing corporate reporting platforms. You will be responsible for the end-to-end project delivery, following the Project Life Cycle. This role allows you to partner with key business and technology stakeholders, analyze business/operational processes, identify requirements, oversee technology build, manage user testing, and coordinate solution implementation. As a Project Manager, you will also have the accountability to provide comprehensive project updates to our senior management.
Job responsibilities:
- Project Managers will manage and execute portfolios of projects liaising with Corporate and Investment Bank line of business stakeholders, Corporate functions, Operations and Technology.
- Manage communication of status updates to stakeholders and Senior Management through scorecards and tracking of milestones and critical path.
- Coordinate working group meetings, Steering group meetings - setting the agenda, preparing meeting materials using PowerPoint / Pitch-pro, documenting minutes in a timely manner and ensuring clear ownership of action items.
- Build and maintain working relationships with stakeholders in the different businesses our team supports (e.g., Markets, Securities Services, Banking) and functions (e.g., Risk [Credit Risk, Legal entity Risk], Finance [Business Management, Product Control], Technology, Operations, Legal, etc.) and partner with stakeholders, providing guidance and analysis, helping identify and escalate issues/risks/dependencies and facilitating communication across the impacted teams.
- Defining project plan for a project or a work stream of a large project and ensuring quality executing against the project plan / critical path.
- Partner with technology to ensure the design and build requirements meet business needs. Coordinating, planning and overseeing the execution of testing across all lines of business, as required if a Technology impacted project.
- Leveraging the automation / innovation tools (Alteryx, Tableau, Signavio etc.) to deliver project deliverables / execution as appropriate.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Project management experience.
- Attention to detail, ability to work independently, multitask, prioritize and be self-motivated.
- Strong analytical, data management and problem solving skills. Ability to map and understand complex workflows and business processes. Good working knowledge of MS Excel and PowerPoint required.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to articulate complex issues concisely and communicate effectively and comfortably with senior people.
- Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills.
- Ability to execute tasks under compact deadlines and to effectively manage changes in plan in a changing work environment.
- English and Spanish proficiency required.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Knowledge of Finance, Risk, Operations, Regulatory Reporting, Regulatory Financial Reform, along with knowledge of Corporate and Investment Bank businesses and the products they manage would be an advantage
- Knowledge of a Project Management Methodology would be an advantage (PRINCE2, PMI PMP, Agile, Waterfall framework)
- Finance background is a strong plus – must be able to interact and discuss project issues with legal entity control, financial control and product controller teams.
- Financial Products Knowledge (FX, Derivatives, Fixed Income) also a strong plus.