IT Project Manager – Financial Services

Job at a Glance

• Location: Jersey City, NJ

• Work Arrangement: Hybrid (3–4 days onsite per week)

• Hours: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM (must be flexible to support both European and US time zones)

Responsibilities

• Plan, build and lead one or more projects

• Follow up with IT Development and IT Production teams on deliverables

• Identify, report and escalate risks, issues and dependencies to Record Keeping Sr. management

• Create program documentation for Steering Committee meetings with Executive Level Management Documents

• Ensure actions are followed up with respective owners and tracked to closure

• Work extensively with business, IT and compliance stakeholders to ensure alignment of channel recording

• Assess and manage deployment of tactical and strategic IT solution in absence of strategic IT recording solution

Technical Skills

• Strong project management skills including preparation of project/program documentation, executive summary, sr. management support for steering committee meetings & escalation

• Ability to conduct negotiations

• Strong analytical capacity & ability to define relevant metrics and performance indicators

• Strong focus on closure – ability to keep deliverables moving forwards in a challenging environment

Experience

• Project Management and BAU background

• Strong track record in ‘change the bank’ and ‘run the bank’ environments

• Preferably, candidates will have a successful track record in supporting complex programs in Global Markets and IT / Operations environments

• Experience within Control and Conduct programs – understanding of communication channels would be an advantage but is not essential

Soft Skills

• Highly structured and disciplined organizational skills

• Attention to detail

• Focused and self-starter

• Ability to work to deadlines on multiple initiatives simultaneously

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Flexibility & resilience in a complex, global and fragmented CIB Global Markets and ITO environment

Education

• Bachelor’s degree from university

About the Client

The client is a major global financial institution supporting a wide range of banking services, including corporate and institutional solutions. This position resides within the CIB Voice & eCom Record Keeping (VERK) Program Office, tasked with ensuring regulatory compliance for recorded communication channels under CFTC and MIFID regulations. The Program Office drives structured governance and change delivery by partnering across IT, Compliance, Legal, Records Management, and Data Governance teams in a global environment.

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