Hello Applicant,
I have a full-time role available with my direct Fortune 500 client, directly on their payroll. They are seeking an "IT Project Manager" with extensive experience in the Capital Markets environment and strong expertise in Back Office technology.
In this role, you will be responsible for managing various back-office initiatives using an agile development approach. This includes project governance, risk and issue management, and client communication. You will lead multiple financial and corporate systems projects and enhancements within the back office project portfolio.
This is a hybrid role based in New York City (NYC).
Role Objectives:
Project Management implementation for strategic projects and enhancements using an agile development approach across the back office, including Operations, Accounting, Regulatory and Compliance
Lead new projects from inception through production go live, managing the project lifecycle, including authoring Project Initiation Documents/Business Requirements Documents, Status Reports, and leading Front to Back UAT across Users/Developers
Ensure execution meets client expectations for functionality, quality, timeline, and cost, as well as facilitating synchronization points across organizations
- Interact with Business Analysts, Developers, Business Stakeholders, Program Managers, Technology Management
- Gather and provide status updates to stakeholders and leadership regarding delivery, risks, and schedule
Communication with client stakeholders to track milestones, deliverables, and dependencies
Facilitate requirements gathering and design sessions with business and technology stakeholders
Facilitate quality assurance and end to end testing
Close collaboration with business analysis and development teams
Assist with production implementation & coordinate user validation & transition to production support/BAU
Manage projects between technology and business teams
Qualifications:
- 6+ years of experience in bank capital markets or a financial firm with proven experience in systems implementations project management, business analysis, data analysis and testing; working with technology teams on custom software development and back office systems implementations using an agile approach
- Subject matter expertise in one more of these business domains: finance, accounting, derivatives, securities, fixed income, trading and operations
- Excellent data analysis and report building skills
- Eagerness and demonstrated ability to effectively learn and master new domains
- Strong verbal and written communication skills. Ability to communicate confidently with users and effectively with users, team members
- Strong analytical, strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret business needs and translate them into application requirements
- Strong work ethic with focus on meeting deadlines and objectives
- Strong skills working with MS Excel, MS Project, MS Word, MS Power Point, SharePoint, JIRA, Confluence
- Bachelor's degree. Finance, Computer Science or Information Systems preferred