Senior Project Manager

Job Description

Job Description: Senior Project Manager

Duration: 12 Months

Location: Jersey City NJ 07310

Notes:

Here are the top 3 skills I am looking for in a candidate:

• Project Management & Business Analysis o Ability to drive end-to-end project execution (planning, risk management, stakeholder alignment) while leveraging analytical rigor to translate business needs into actionable insights.

o Experience bridging technical and business perspectives to deliver measurable outcomes.

• Executive-Level Communication & Strategic Storytelling o Confidence in crafting and delivering high-impact presentations for senior leadership, distilling complex topics into clear, concise, and decision-driven narratives.

o Proactive in anticipating questions, surfacing key risks/issues, and framing discussions at the right altitude (avoiding weeds while highlighting strategic implications).

• Agile Learning and Fast Ramp-Up o Fast Ramp-up: Demonstrates ability to quickly master new domains, tools, or processes—balancing independent problem-solving with knowing when to seek guidance.

o Ambiguity navigation: Skill in defining structure where none exists—breaking down vague challenges into actionable frameworks, identifying critical assumptions, and driving toward clarity.

o Adaptability to shift priorities or contexts while maintaining focus on outcomes.

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.