Program Manager - M&A

Key Responsibilities

• Providing overall M&A planning, timeline, governance, and issue management, monitoring and resolution
• Working with M&A Project Managers, Technical Analysts and Business Analysts to create M&A Playbooks for the overall engagement and each workstream across the banking centers, contact centers and the operational and administrative teams to ensure all process steps, dependencies and interdependencies across systems and business units for the conversion implementation are addressed.
• Create the Bank Associate Conversion Support Plan
• Enforcing M&A Governance rules which involve working with the overarching structure, processes and procedures to accomplish objectives including metrics of success and deliverables
• Working with other Program and Project Managers to resolve issues across project teams, individual project stakeholders, program stakeholders and sponsors
• Coordinating resources within project teams
• Ensuring synergies between workstreams are realized
• Remove impediments to allow the project team to meet deliverables timeframe
• Maintain project expenditures and ensure that the project realizes its financial & business benefits
• Managing risk and taking corrective measures to resolve issues
• Managing communication across all stakeholders, third-party contributors and project team members
• Maintaining the project documentation, including all plans, timelines, documentation and briefs/reports
• Ensuring the execution of all project tasks is carried out on schedule
• Providing contingency planning and risk mitigation
• Assuring contract compliance
• Providing executive communication and materials such as status reports and/or presentations on status, issues, remediation activities, and timeline impact, if any

About You

• 5+ years as an M&A Program Manager with a bank or with a consulting firm serving the financial services industry.
• Knowledge of FIS, Fiserv, Jack Henry, Hogan, and/or other core solutions required.
• Experience converting systems and applications during M&A activities.
• Skill with Business Process assessment, current state/target state analysis and mapping
• Excellent communication skills for business interviewing and collaborative design sessions with client teams.
• Working knowledge of M&A management applications i.e. Cutover
• Experience working with PMO software
• Experience with Change Controls
• Experience with process reengineering
• Strong Power Point, Word, Excel and Visio skills.
• Working knowledge of Share Point, and Jira.