Project Manager, Risk Manager​/Analyst, Business Analyst

Aquent is seeking a highly skilled and dynamic Project Manager to join our client, a leading enterprise in the financial services sector, known for its commitment to innovation and seamless operational excellence. This pivotal role offers the opportunity to drive critical integration initiatives, directly shaping the future landscape of their vendor management, risk, and procurement processes. You will be instrumental in coordinating complex, cross-functional work streams and designing interim solutions that ensure stability and efficiency during a significant organizational transition, making a tangible impact on the company’s strategic growth and operational integrity.

We are looking for a Senior Project Manager to support a crucial integration initiative, focusing on bringing a newly acquired entity’s third-party portfolio into the enterprise’s established vendor management, risk, and procurement frameworks. This is a time-bound, integration-focused role designed to coordinate intricate, cross-functional work streams, perform essential gap and variance analyses, and design interim processes. Your work will be vital in tracking third-party portfolio synergies as the organization moves towards full system and process integration.

Operating under the guidance of a Director-level Integration Lead, this role is a pure individual contributor position, without people management responsibilities or steady-state operational ownership. The ideal candidate will be a seasoned Project Manager with a proven track record in supporting post-acquisition integrations, particularly those involving third-party portfolios, supplier management, or risk-adjacent programs. Success in this role requires a professional who thrives in ambiguous environments, bringing strong structure, discipline, and executive-level communication skills to the forefront.

• Integration Project Management:
  Drive the execution of the third-party integration program across multiple concurrent work streams, coordinating activities with critical partners including Vendor Management, Third Party Risk Management, Legal, Procurement, Information Security, Finance, and other risk and control partners.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, defining milestones, dependencies, risks, and issues, ensuring complete alignment with the overall integration roadmap and leadership direction.
• Track and manage interdependencies across all work streams, proactively escalating risks and decisions as needed to maintain project momentum.
• Gap, Variance & Interim State Coordination:
  Orchestrate comprehensive risk and process-based gap/variance analyses between current state practices and enterprise requirements.
• Support the design and documentation of interim processes and oversight approaches to effectively mitigate identified gaps prior to full integration.
• Track interim approaches, approvals, owners, dependencies, and planned sunset timing to ensure a smooth transition.
• Third Party Portfolio & Synergy Tracking:
  Coordinate in-depth analysis of the third-party portfolio to support the identification of overlapping or duplicate suppliers, alignment of risk tiering and segmentation, and opportunities for rationalization or consolidation.
• Establish and maintain synergy tracking artifacts (e.g., supplier overlaps, cost opportunities, risk reduction indicators), diligently tracking progress against targets set by leadership.
• Provide analytical and enablement support; execution authority remains with functional owners.
• Stakeholder Communication & Executive Reporting:
  Prepare senior management‑ready integration reporting, including status updates, key risks and mitigations, dependency and decision tracking, and portfolio and synergy summaries.
• Support the preparation of materials for integration governance forums and senior leadership reviews, ensuring clarity and strategic alignment.
• Facilitate working sessions and integration checkpoints to maintain consistent alignment across all stakeholders.
• Systems, Data & Documentation Coordination:
  Coordinate activities related to vendor and risk data integration, including inventory…