Senior Project Manager to manage several regulatory projects within Capital Markets area for a large banking client - 144963

Our client is seeking a Senior Project Manager to manage several regulatory projects within Capital Markets area for a large banking client

Location: 155 Wellington (Hybrid)
Contract Length: 12 Months

Overview:

Responsible for using best practice PMO methodology to create a project plan to the fit the stakeholders/sponsor’s needs, clear articulation of outcomes, service level agreements and metric as well as developing a schedule to ensure project completion. Must be accountable for comprehending the project scope and project objectives to effectively coordinate the activities of the team members and ensure completion of the project timeline. Assemble a team, outline individual responsibilities and provide on-going direction. Typical project scope will include managing a large project or several smaller projects.

Daily Responsibilities:

• Manages the planning, organization and implementation of projects. Applies experience and seasoned knowledge, skills, and practices to perform a variety of assignments in Banking, Finance & Capital Markets area. Overseeing project processes and procedures; monitoring the productivity and performance of project team.
• Managing all aspects of projects. Setting deadlines, assigning responsibilities, and monitoring and summarizing progress of Project.
• Ensuring adherence to project schedules and completion of project goals.
• Preparing reports for upper management regarding status of project.
• Strong Understanding of IT data technology concepts (IT project delivery) to an extent that able to communicate effectively with Dev, QA, BA, and Production support teams/resources.
• Hands on expert level experience with JIRA, Confluence, MS Visio, Excel, PowerPoint and other project management tools.
• Have a solid understanding of project/change delivery concepts from initiation to closure.
• Able to juggle multiple balls in the air.
• Able to communicate constantly changing priorities and work around resourcing issues.
• Take initiative, be the driver (rather than being driven) to resolve issue.
• Effective organization skills- i.e. ability to understand complex nature of changes and present in a most simplified way to the team and management.
• Ability to utilize Spidey senses and effectively raise and manage RAID.
• Able to effectively show and communicate priorities, project goals to stakeholders.
• Take ownership. Show and act as a leader in the group and minimize dependencies of the ground level resources on other functional leads.
• Effectively lead and rally 15+ resources in the team.
• Clear, concise, effective skills, both verbal and written for status reporting.
• Willing to challenge the status quo, think out of the box and implement new ideas.
• Effectively able to communicate across all levels with the organization

Must Haves:

- PMP
- 8+ years of PM experience
- Knowledge of the following projects: FSDS, FRTB, FRB, Darwin, Scorpion, TBII, Rouge, T+1, USCM, SRT, SAMARA, Basel 4
- Experience with Microsoft Suite products 


Nice to Haves:

- FI experience
- Capital Markets experience