Job Summary:
As a Project Management/Data Ops – Associate/ Vice President within our team, you will understand and apply key principles of project management to participate/lead a change initiative or business expansion. You will also participate in/promote various phases of a project life cycle and manage the coordination and tracking of the prioritized list of initiatives within program(s) to address the business needs.
Job Responsibilities
- Understand and apply key principles of project management to participate/lead a change initiative or business expansion
- Participate in/drive various phases of a project life cycle (i.e., Initiate, Plan, Execute, Monitor / Control, Close)
- Drive requirements, changes, gather test cases, audit and govern user acceptance testing
- Conduct or assist in deep dives / process reviews / gap analyses
- Participate in cost/risk and benefit analysis on multiple approaches to determine best solution
- Manage the coordination and tracking of the prioritized list of initiatives within program(s) to address the business needs
- Act as a communication channel for ongoing project management status and issues to ensure timely updates to stakeholders, set business expectations and lead to completion
- Engage the right resources (content /subject matter experts) and build relationships to meet the project goals
Required Qualifications
- Ability to create artifacts for projects, change initiatives or business expansions, (project charters, process maps, meeting minutes, projects tasks, risk and issue logs to identify risk & control implications, scorecards)
- Responsive and accessible to stakeholders
- Exhibits a strong understanding of the business and actively seeks input to anticipate stakeholder needs and effectively meets or exceeds them
- Collaborates effectively with colleagues
- Ability to participate on cross-functional project teams and present insights outputs to Senior leaders
- Demonstrate strong attention to detail, problem-solving and critical thinking skills
- Ability to multitask and manage multiple research/analytics projects at the same time
Preferred Qualifications
- A bachelor’s degree or equivalent is required
- 8 to 10 years of experience at a major financial institution
- Project Management experience is preferred