Senior Project Manager

*** Excellent long term contract opportunity available ***

Our direct banking client is looking for a senior Project Manager with up to 15 years of experience to conduct Project Management activities for various banking projects within Operations, Technology and Compliance. Work location: NYC. Work schedule Hybrid (2 days per week)

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 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
• Tolerance and understanding in multi-cultural environment
• Knowledge of regulatory project implementation such as KYC is a plus
• Knowledge of Jira and MS Project is a plus
• Bachelor degree required, Masters degree is a plus
• Big 6 consulting firm experience is a plus