Our client, a leading financial services company is hiring a Senior PM on a long-term contract basis.
Job ID 79333
Work Location:
New York, NY
Summary:
The role will be part of a central FINRA 4210 Program Management Team, charged with ensuring the timely execution of deliverables across all workstreams whilst imparting subject matter expertise and know-how. The candidate must be an individual experienced in project management and with sufficient subject matter expertise to be able to provide meaningful solutions that are functional and sustainable.
Responsibilities:
- Transformation / change management / PMO experience with a focus on Capital Markets initiatives to facilitate compliance with FINRA 4210 for a material client population.
- Partner with the Business, Legal, Risk and Operations to facilitate redocumentation and operational readiness for FINRA 4210 by May 2024.
- Represent Markets Transformation across various streams of work to ensure the timely delivery of key initiatives, milestones, issue tracking, and issue remediation.
- Working knowledge of Markets business and products and / or regulatory capital.
- Effective communication with key stakeholders, both internal and external to the program / project, including obtaining buy-in for business process and infrastructure changes.
- Work closely with the Markets Business and Technology teams to ensure that the data is accurate, complete, has proper data lineage, and help steer the overall data governance.
- Delivering effective, articulate, and concise presentations to senior management covering project / program status, resourcing and plans.
- Ability to influence and build collaborative relationships across Global Markets front-to-back stakeholders.
- Manage internal and external dependencies across initiatives, including working closely with Sales, Business Managers, Product Owners, Risk, Legal and Operations teams.
- Identify challenges and proactively seek to resolve or escalate risk and issues in a timely and well-articulated manner to the projects by engaging relevant stakeholders and PMs
- Engage senior stakeholders continuously by escalating and resolving issues as they arise.
Required Skills:
- A minimum of 8 years’ experience in project management, preferably in a senior role.
- Experience with Capital Markets Transformation.
- Strong project and program management skills; ability to gain consensus among project team and stakeholders, and drive initiatives to completion effectively.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail.
- Excellent oral and written communications skills; must be articulate and persuasive with the judgement and authority to provide insightful commentary to senior stakeholders.
- Ability to drive change to business practices by working effectively across a global organization and understand different perspectives.
- Thought leadership in target state design through engaging stakeholders at various levels of the organization.
- Demonstrated analytical skills with follow-up and problem solving capability key skills preferred.
- Experience in Risk and Regulatory related projects.
- Experience analyzing large datasets using SQL, Python, a plus.
Education:
- Bachelor’s/University degree.
- Master’s degree preferred.
- Project Management certifications e.g. PMP or equivalent a strong plus.
Pay: $70-$92 per hour.