Project Manager

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Project Manager for a contract assignment with one of our premier financial services clients in New York, NY .

Responsibilities :

• Part of a central FINRA Program Management Team, charged with ensuring the timely execution of deliverables across all workstreams whilst imparting subject matter expertise and know-how.
• Must be an individual experienced in project management and with sufficient subject matter expertise to be able to provide meaningful solutions that are functional and sustainable.
• Transformation / change management / PMO experience with a focus on Capital Markets initiatives to facilitate compliance with FINRA for a material client population
• Partner with the Business, Legal, Risk and Operations to facilitate redocumentation and operational readiness for FINRA by May .
• Represent Markets Transformation across various streams of work to ensure the timely delivery of key initiatives, milestones, issue tracking, and issue remediation.
• Working knowledge of Markets business and products and / or regulatory capital
• Effective communication with key stakeholders, both internal and external to the program / project, including obtaining buy-in for business process and infrastructure changes.
• Work closely with the Markets Business and Technology teams to ensure that the data is accurate, complete, has proper data lineage, and help steer the overall data governance.
• Delivering effective, articulate, and concise presentations to senior management covering project / program status, resourcing and plans
• Ability to influence and build collaborative relationships across Global Markets front-to-back stakeholders
• Experience analyzing large datasets using SQL, Python, a plus
• Manage internal and external dependencies across initiatives, including working closely with Sales, Business Managers, Product Owners, Risk, Legal and Operations teams
• Identify challenges and proactively seek to resolve or escalate risk and issues in a timely and well-articulated manner to the projects by engaging relevant stakeholders and PMs
• Engage senior stakeholders continuously by escalating and resolving issues as they arise

Required Skills :

• A minimum of years' experience in project management, preferably in a senior role.
• Experience in Risk and Regulatory related projects
• Bachelor's / University degree
• Experience with Capital Markets Transformation
• Strong project and program management skills; ability to gain consensus among project team and stakeholders, and drive initiatives to completion effectively
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail
• Excellent oral and written communications skills; must be articulate and persuasive with the judgement and authority to provide insightful commentary to senior stakeholders
• Ability to drive change to business practices by working effectively across a global organization and understand different perspectives
• Thought leadership in target state design through engaging stakeholders at various levels of the organization

Preferred Skills :

• Master's degree preferred
• Project Management certifications PMP or equivalent a strong plus
• Demonstrated analytical skills with follow-up and problem solving capability key skills preferred
30+ days ago