Program Manager / Risk

Top Requirements

• Tier 1 Bank or Big 4 Experience

• Regulatory Change or transformation work

• Ability to lead a workstream

• Good stakeholder management

The role will be part of a central Client 4210 Program Management Team, charged with ensuring the timely execution of deliverables across all workstreams whilst imparting subject matter expertise and know-how. The candidate 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.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Transformation / change management / PMO experience with a focus on Capital Markets initiatives to facilitate compliance with Client 4210 for a material client population

• Partner with the Business, Legal, Risk and Operations to facilitate redocumentation and operational readiness for Client 4210 by May 2024.

• 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

key skills required

• A minimum of 8 years’ experience in project management, preferably in a senior role.

• 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

• Demonstrated analytical skills with follow-up and problem solving capability key skills preferred

• Experience in Risk and Regulatory related projects

• Bachelor’s/University degree, Master’s degree preferred

• Project Management certifications e.g. PMP or equivalent a strong plus