IT Project Manager III (Closed)

SkillStorm is seeking a Project Manager / Business Analyst for our client in New York, New York. Candidates must be able to work on SkillStorm’s W2; not a C2C position. EOE, including disability/vets.

Overview:

• The role resides within the Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities (FICC) Technology division of Global Technology and Operations, serving the Global Markets business for Institutional Investors.

Job Description:

• A Technical Project Manager/Analyst role with 2-3 years of experience, supporting Program Management for some of the largest and most significant technology programs in the FICC division.
• In particular, the candidate will perform program/project management routines for Risk and Regulatory programs.
• The role will require advanced leadership and communication skills, and the successful candidate will need to drive the program to completion across different lines of business and multiple stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Provides business analysis and support for modification, implementation, or conversion of business systems.
• Translates business needs into functional/technical requirements.
• Acts as liaison between business unit and software/hardware developers.
• Aware of business or function for which application or system is designed. (Global Market trading, risk management, credit risk management)
• Tracking of project deliverables and follow up with relevant technical teams.
• Skilled at researching and accessing data through various tools, databases and APIs.
• Able to analyze data and create dashboards and reports that show metrics and patterns in the data.
• Experienced with project management discipline, and able to create high level plans, RACI and project plans for presentation to senior management.
• Identify and escalate risks, issues and dependencies that threaten program delivery dates
• Design, produce, collate and present program metrics to senior management
• Facilitate project communication across various technology and business groups within the division
• Produce high quality program management presentations (PowerPoint) for executives in business and technology. Presentations include;
• Program deliverables
• Business benefits
• Cost savings
• Timelines
• Technical Roadmaps
• Attend various meetings and technical working group meeting and produce organized and coherent meeting notes and action plans

Requirements:

• Excellent verbal and written communication/presentation skills, ability to tailor communication to suit the audience
• Ability to absorb and distill complex concepts and scenarios into a coherent summary of the business problems, risks, and summary of options for resolution
• Adept at research, data mining, data analysis and presentation of results
• Strong collaboration and relationship management skills, ability to work across business groups and regions and in a team environment
• High sense of urgency with ability to drive results and ability to successfully prioritize and multitask a number of deliverables
• Strong analytical skills. Comfortable with turning ambiguity into a defined problem and potential resolution
• Ability to apply a logical and common sense approach to problem solving
• Knowledge of trading, financial markets, instruments, regulations, trading and risk management analytics
• Experience with all stages of SDLC and comfort with technical terms/concepts
• Knowledge of project management concepts and terminology
• Key expert applications skills required: PowerPoint, Excel, Visio
• Experience with Agile methodologies i.e Scrum

Educational Experience\Work Experience:

• Undergraduate degree in Economics, Business, Finance, Mathematics, Computer Science
• Two to three years work experience with any combination of the following;
• Trading, Product Control, Trade Lifecycle
• Market or counterparty risk management
• Capital Markets
• Business analysis

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