We have an opening for Project Manager with Financial Domain at Chicago, IL or Jersey City, NJ, St Louis, MO. Kindly apply with your updated resume if you are interested. Please find the job details below:
Position: Project Manager with Financial Domain
Location: Chicago, IL or Jersey City, NJ, St Louis, MO
Duration: 12 Months Contract Position
Domain: Banking
Description:
We are seeking an experienced Project Manager with a strong background in the Financial Services, Banking, Payments, or Capital Markets domain. The ideal candidate will be responsible for managing large-scale programs, driving strategic initiatives, coordinating cross-functional teams, and ensuring successful delivery of business and technology projects while meeting regulatory and compliance requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end program management for multiple concurrent projects within the financial services domain.
- Define program scope, objectives, timelines, budgets, and resource allocation.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, product owners, technology teams, and vendors to deliver strategic initiatives.
- Manage program governance, risk management, issue resolution, and escalation processes.
- Drive Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, or hybrid project delivery methodologies.
- Monitor project milestones, KPIs, and program performance metrics.
- Ensure compliance with financial regulations, security standards, and internal governance policies.
- Coordinate dependency management across multiple workstreams and teams.
- Prepare executive-level status reports, dashboards, and presentations.
- Facilitate stakeholder meetings, steering committee reviews, and decision-making sessions.
- Support digital transformation, modernization, cloud migration, and process improvement initiatives.
- Manage change management, user adoption, and communication plans.
- 10+ years of project/program management experience.
- 5+ years of experience in Banking, Financial Services, Payments, Insurance, FinTech, or Capital Markets.
- Strong understanding of financial products, transaction processing, regulatory compliance, and risk management.
- Experience managing large enterprise programs ($1M+ budgets preferred).
- Strong knowledge of Agile, Scrum, SAFe, Waterfall, and SDLC methodologies.
- Proficiency with JIRA, Confluence, MS Project, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, or similar tools.
- Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
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