Senior Project Manager

Rate: $750 - $900/day W2

Location: New Jersey (combination of in-office and remote work, with regular physical presence in office(s) required)

About the Role

DRIVE Project Implementation Americas is building its core expertise in managing transversal and transformation projects across all Global Markets & Global Banking Business Lines. We seek a contract-based Senior Project Manager with deep expertise in Global Banking and Capital Markets to manage multiple high-impact projects, including strategic change management, new business/product initiatives, process re-engineering, and control framework establishment. This role requires strong functional/business knowledge, regulatory compliance expertise, and a deep understanding of Banking (corporate loans) and Capital Markets.

Candidate Success Factors

• Results and Impact: Impacts division and influences peers and team. Demonstrates good judgement when making decisions of high complexity and impact. Relies on limited guidance for most complex decision making. Drives outcomes with meaningful effect on team or department.
• Leadership and Collaboration: Creates trust with department leaders. Acts in leadership capacity for large projects, processes, or programs for a team.
• Client, Customer and Stakeholder Focus: Builds relationships with intermediate and senior colleagues or clients. Interacts regularly with management and department leaders. Demonstrates ability to persuade and influence stakeholders at team level.
• Compliance Culture and Conduct: Takes full responsibility for personal actions and demonstrates courage in facing problems and conflicts. Upholds corporate values and displays high ethical standards.

Responsibilities

Project Management

• Manage and lead assigned projects to completion with delivery of agreed objectives.
• Ensure all projects follow Group Policies and Procedure, including proper Project Governance and reporting to senior management & stakeholders.
• Create and lead appropriate project governance.
• Identify and stabilize the scope of business topics to be addressed/resolved.
• Obtain buy-in from Primary Project Stakeholders and Sponsor.
• Secure the resource plan and prioritization/funding of those resources.
• Leverage expertise and problem-solving skills to propose solutions during each phase of the project.
• Drive delivery effort by maintaining project lists, organizing follow-up meetings, creating and distributing meeting minutes.
• Identify risk and dependencies that could jeopardize project execution.
• Ensure clear communication of goals, budget, risks, efforts involved, and project progress.
• Work closely with all functions (Front Office, Operations, Finance, IT, Compliance, Legal, Risk) to ensure successful delivery of project objectives.
• Manage situations of conflict and constraints to ensure project success.

Business Analysis

• Elicit business requirements using interviews and subject matter expertise.
• Document requirements, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, task and workflow analysis.
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, and decompose high-level information into details.
• Abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from true underlying needs.
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to deliver Business Requirements Documents and Test & Use Cases.
• Challenge business users on their assumptions and expected implementation of requirements.
• Analyze current procedures and propose changes to improve productivity, efficiency, and risk control.
• Work closely with Operations and IT managers to measure the impact of new systems/processes on staff workload and determine new staffing requirements.

Contribute to the Successful Implementation of New Systems

• Work with various users to clearly identify business requirements from Front Office to Finance.
• Collaborate with IT to ensure system functionalities meet user requirements.
• Propose procedural changes to take advantage of new system functionalities.
• Facilitate planning between IT and users to ensure all project phases are on track and appropriate testing is carried out.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university with a focus on Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or other relevant field.
• 6 - 8 years of relevant industry experience.
• Expertise in Front Office and Operations (functional or in a project capacity), with knowledge of Banking and Capital Market activities.
• A keen focus on 'Process and Risk' awareness is a key criterion for this position.
• Deep knowledge of and experience executing all project management concepts, including project planning, documentation, and stakeholder management.
• Excellent knowledge of MS Project, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Business Analyst experience is valuable.

Skills

• In-depth understanding of project life cycle and what each phase implies.
• Excellent communication and reporting skills (both written and oral).
• Ability to professionally and efficiently manage situations of conflict and collaborate to arrive at solutions.
• Ability to adapt and learn new processes quickly.
• Ability to multi-task and shift gears for various topics and perimeters during the project life cycle (e.g., knowledge of FO Products and processes, Operations, IT, Finance).
• Ability to delve into complicated situations (issues, people, processes), sort out information, and propose solutions/next steps.