Job Description

Key Roles and Responsibilities

  • Develop and manage aspects of business analysis, program and project engagement from planning, relationships, communications, resources, budget, change management, risks & issues, metrics & reporting, through to execution across group priorities
  • Provide confident leadership, diplomatic and motivational skills across all levels of the organization as required by the program
  • Build and maintain relationships by engaging cross-disciplinary stakeholders to establish credibility, solve problems, build consensus and achieve project objectives
  • Establish & manage PMO structure including other Project Managers and Project coordinators alongside functional workstream design
  • Provide status reporting (backed by reliable data) regarding project milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating across leadership
  • Mobilize individuals & teams to deep dive issues, define solutions and solve problems
  • Assume delegated authority where required on critical reporting (for eg. Senior firm steering, Regulators, Industry forums)

Required Skills and Experience:

  • 8+ years of experience with at least 4/5 years’ experience working on cross-divisional investment banking programs
  • Knowledge of the financial services industry, preferably within an investment bank with sales and trading, finance, operations, technology or internal audit background 
  • Overall experience in hands-on project management, specifically in information security technology-related projects essential, and preferably supporting financial services businesses 
  • Excellent leadership, communication (written, verbal and presentation) and interpersonal skills
  • Proven ability to work proactively, creatively & analytically in a fast-paced, extremely complex environment
  • Ability to take ownership of tasks and projects, able to work within a global team, and manage time and tasks effectively & independently
  • Domain knowledge and/or project experience desirable in one or more of the following:
    • Front-office trading, product modeling and risk management
    • Fixed Income or Equity product knowledge
    • Front-back trade lifecycle fundamentals
    • Key principles of software development lifecycle (SDLC)
    • Agile & waterfall / hybrid project methodologies

 

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