Job responsibilities:
- Support Program Management Lead in their larger book of work oversight while owning day to day management of projects and identifying opportunities to improve processes for efficiency and best practices
- Partner with Business and Technology to plan major milestones with understanding of stakeholder needs
- Identify risks and issues to be escalated and partner with workstream Leads to assess options for resolution
- Review value proposition and validate pain points to track to measures of success
- Oversee status reporting to own executive summaries and/or coordinate scorecard updates and create artifacts to simply complex aspects of the project to assist with “story telling”
- Contribute to senior governance forum meetings by preparing agenda and materials and presenting updates
- Collaborate with other Project Managers, or workstream Leads, in the organization to promote information exchange and contribute to larger initiatives
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, demonstrated through interactions with different levels of seniority
- Substantial experience in change managemen t with proven success executing on multiple projects / initiatives at once
- Team player with ability to work autonomously and deliver high quality work in a fast-paced environment, while maintaining a positive and professional attitude
- Strong core finance technical skills and a solid understanding of finance processes, infrastructure, and systems
- Ability to support a cross-functional project team with varied disciplines and stakeholders with competing priorities
- Experience with project or program management best practices, including organizational skills and time management
- Ability to assimilate in an organization and proactively form working relationships with key stakeholders across groups
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- 7+ years experience in financial services, preferably with a mix of operations/product/program management roles
- Markets product knowledge or business acumen (examples include familiarity with different types of external reporting or exposure to derivatives and securities)
- Experience creating executive summaries and aggregating presentations with agendas and materials
- PitchPro+ (Microsoft PowerPoint) and Microsoft Teams is a plus