Senior Project Manager

DRIVE Global Banking Project Implementation

Location:
New Jersey

Business Overview:

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 project manager with strong functional/business knowledge, regulatory compliance expertise, and deep understanding of Banking (corporate loans) and Capital Markets.

* This role requires a combination of in-office and remote work, with regular physical presence in office(s) being an essential aspect of the position.

Candidate Success Factors:

Candidates to be measured on the following four performance drivers, which will dictate how individual impact is considered on the Americas platform:

• 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
  • Is responsible for driving outcomes which have 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
  • Able to build relationships with a mix of intermediate and senior colleagues or clients
  • Interacts regularly with management and department leaders
  • Demonstrates the 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
  • Perceived as a person of high moral character; upholds corporate values and displays high ethical standards ”

Responsibilities:

Project Management:

• Manage and lead assigned projects to completion with delivery of agreed objectives

· Ensure that 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

· Identify and obtain the buy-in from the 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 the 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, as well as on the progress of the project

· Work closely with all functions - Front office, Operations, Finance, IT, Compliance, Legal, Risk etc. to ensure successful delivery of project objectives.

· Manage situations of conflict and constraints to ensure the success of the project.

Business Analysis:

· Elicit business requirements using interviews & subject matter expertise

· Document requirements, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, task and workflow analysis

· Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, & decompose high-level information into details

· Abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the true underlying needs

· Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to deliver the following artifacts as needed: (1) Business Requirements Documents, (2) Test & Use Cases

· Challenge business users on their…