Contract Senior Project Manager for Program Management Office
MUST be local to New York City, Hybrid Schedule (2 days per week in office)
Seeking a senior Hands On Project Manager with no more than 15 years of experience to conduct Project/Program Management activities for various banking projects within Operations, Technology and Compliance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaboration with various departments such as operations, technology and compliance for various projects.
- Set-up and coordination of meetings on projects
- Draft project status reports
- Manage project plans for various programs
- Identify Project’s Risks and Issues
- Track progress across multiple ongoing projects
- Consolidate status reports and leadership updates
- Track risks, issues, dependencies, and timelines
- Support program governance and reporting
- Facilitate coordination between operations and technology teams
- Knowledge of KYC and regulatory technology project is a big plus
- Reporting daily scrum development status reports upon IT / Technology project(s), maintenance of the requirements
Requirements:
- Significant experience and track record of support in delivering of major initiatives at large and complex financial programs. This includes project planning, and reporting of progress to achieve milestones.
- Bringing to the attention of management if issues related to change in requirements, schedules, development progress, testing and release.
- Deep understanding of various banking functions and technology implementation methodologies
- Strong knowledge and experience in change management controls
- Excellent skills of organizing project management documents
- Excellent management skills including experience at performing across multiple functions & areas.
- Superior communication skills: both written and oral with technical and non-technical staff
- Knowledge of regulatory project implementation such as KYC is a plus
- Knowledge of Jira and MS Project
- Bachelor degree required, Masters degree is a plus
- Big 6 consulting firm experience is a plus