Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Project Manager - Markets & RWA for a contract placement assignment with one of our premier financial services clients in New York, NY .
Responsibilities :
- Responsible for ensuring the timely execution of deliverables related to Capital and RWA.
- Must demonstrate a self-starting attitude, an ability to understand complex concepts quickly and experience working with Markets products, technology and data across the end to end trading and capital calculation process
- Define, organize and oversee delivery for new regulatory and internal strategic requirements for RWA calculations for Markets products, taking accountability to drive work on behalf of sponsors
- Maintain a hands-on approach to project delivery, working on a daily basis with functional and technical teams to ensure requirements are understood, correctly implemented and delivered to plan.
- Lead working groups and workshops with stakeholders to break down deliverables, understand business requirements, define project plans and manage timelines
- Manage internal and external dependencies across initiatives, including working closely with Business, Finance Transformation and Technology teams
- Identify challenges and proactively seek to resolve or escalate risks and issues in a timely and well-articulated manner to the projects by engaging relevant stakeholders
- Engage senior stakeholders continuously by escalating and resolving issues as they arise
- Produce accurate and insightful project update materials and artifacts, tailoring to various forums and committees
- Build strong relationships, adopting a joined up approach, to support the execution of programs
Required Skills :
- 10 years+ relevant delivery experience
- Senior programme management skills in a Markets Capital context
- Familiarity with Markets products, particularly fixed income and preferable securitization products
- Demonstrable experience of daily management and tracking of technical and operational transformation with ability to identify potential risks / issues and escalate appropriately
- Excellent oral and written communications skills with ablity to engage, inform and persuade senior stakeholders through discussion and presentations.
- Ability to demonstrate understanding of software delivery lifecycle and to coordinate end to end delivery across teams- Self-starting with the ability to multitask, prioritize and proactively seek out teams and individuals across the organization to help unblock issues
- Organized, detail oriented, and able to track multiple workstreams / projects at once
Preferred Skills :
- Strong understanding of trade lifecycle and end to end processing as well as different functions within Capital Markets and how they interact.
- Business SME or business management skills in one or more Markets product areas, particularly derivatives or SFTs.
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