Senior Project Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Candidate Success Factors:

Candidates to be measured on the following four performance drivers, which will dictate how individual impact is considered on the Americas platform:

• Results and Impact
• • Impacts division and influences peers and team
  • Demonstrates good judgement when making decisions of high complexity and impact
  • Relies on limited guidance for most complex decision making
  • Is responsible for driving outcomes which have meaningful effect on team or department
• Leadership and Collaboration
• • Creates trust with department leaders
  • Acts in leadership capacity for large projects, processes, or programs for a team
• Client, Customer and Stakeholder Focus
• • Able to build relationships with a mix of intermediate and senior colleagues or clients
  • Interacts regularly with management and department leaders
  • Demonstrates the ability to persuade and influence stakeholders at team level
• Compliance Culture and Conduct
• • Takes full responsibility for personal actions and demonstrates courage in facing problems and conflicts
  • Perceived as a person of high moral character; upholds corporate values and displays high ethical standards”

Responsibilities:

Project Management:

• Manage and lead assigned projects to completion with delivery of agreed objectives

· Ensure that all projects follow Group Policies and Procedure – including proper Project Governance and reporting to senior management & stakeholders

· Create and lead appropriate project governance

· Identify and stabilize the scope of business topics to be addressed / resolved

· Identify and obtain the buy-in from the Primary Project Stakeholders and Sponsor

· Secure the resource plan and prioritization / funding of those resources

· Leverage expertise and problem-solving skills to propose solutions during each phase of the project

· Drive the delivery effort by maintaining project lists, organizing follow up meetings, creating and distributing meeting minutes

· Identify risk and dependencies that could jeopardize project execution.

· Ensure clear communication of goals, budget, risks, efforts involved, as well as on the progress of the project

· Work closely with all functions - Front office, Operations, Finance, IT, Compliance, Legal, Risk etc. to ensure successful delivery of project objectives.

· Manage situations of conflict and constraints to ensure the success of the project.

Business Analysis:

· Elicit business requirements using interviews & subject matter expertise

· Document requirements, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, task and workflow analysis

· Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, & decompose high-level information into details

· Abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the true underlying needs

· Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to deliver the following artifacts as needed: (1) Business Requirements Documents, (2) Test & Use Cases

· Challenge business users on their assumptions & how they expect to successfully implement requirement

Contribute to the building of maximum efficiency within the Firm:

• Analyse the current procedures and make change proposals to improve productivity, efficiency and risk control
• Work closely with the Operations and IT managers to properly measure the impact of new systems/processes on the staff's workload and determine the new staffing requirements where applicable.

Contribute to the successful implementation of new systems:

• Work with various users to clearly identify business requirements – from Front Office to Finance.
• Collaborate with IT to ensure that the system functionalities meet the user requirements.
• Propose procedural changes to take advantage of the new system functionalities.
• Facilitate the planning between IT and users to ensure all phases of the project are on track and that the appropriate level of testing is carried out.

Minimum Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from accredited university with focus on Finance, Economics, Business Administration or other relevant field of study.
• 6 – 8 years of relevant industry experience.
• Expertise in Front Office and Operations (functional or in a project capacity), with knowledge of Banking and Capital Market activities
• • A keen focus on ‘Process and Risk’ awareness is a KEY CRITERIA for this position.
• Deep knowledge of & experience executing all project management concepts.
• • Project planning, documentation experience, & stakeholder management is essential

Minimum Required Qualifications Cont’d:

• Excellent level of knowledge of MS Project, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Business Analyst experience is valuable
• The candidate:
• • Must have an in-depth understanding of project life cycle and what each phase implies.
  • Must have excellent communication and reporting skills – Both written and oral.
  • Must be able to professionally and efficiently manage situations of conflict and work with collaborators to arrive at a solution.
  • Needs to demonstrate the ability to adapt and learn new processes quickly.
  • Needs to show ability to multi-task and shift gears for various topics and perimeter during the project life cycle (i.e. Knowledge of FO Products and processes, Operations, IT, Finance etc.).
  • Must be able to demonstrate the ability to delve into complicated situations (issues, people, processes etc.), sort out the information and propose the solution/next steps.

\nCompany Description

Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Farmington Hills, MI, Kyyba has a global presence delivering high-quality resources and top-notch recruiting services, enabling businesses to effectively respond to organizational changes and technological advances.

At Kyyba, the overall well-being of our employees and their families is important to us. We are proud of our work culture which embodies our core values; incorporating value, passion, excellence, empowerment, and happiness, creates a vibrant and productive atmosphere. We empower our employees with the resources, incentives, and flexibility that they need to support a healthy, balanced, and fulfilling career by providing many valuable benefits and a balanced compensation structure combined with career development.

Kyyba is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Kyyba does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other b

Company Description

Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Farmington Hills, MI, Kyyba has a global presence delivering high-quality resources and top-notch recruiting services, enabling businesses to effectively respond to organizational changes and technological advances.\r\n\r\nAt Kyyba, the overall well-being of our employees and their families is important to us. We are proud of our work culture which embodies our core values; incorporating value, passion, excellence, empowerment, and happiness, creates a vibrant and productive atmosphere. We empower our employees with the resources, incentives, and flexibility that they need to support a healthy, balanced, and fulfilling career by providing many valuable benefits and a balanced compensation structure combined with career development.\r\n\r\nKyyba is an Equal Opportunity Employer.\r\n\r\nKyyba does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other b