Contract Senior Project Manager for Program Management Office

Job Description

Job Description

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