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SkillStorm is seeking a Project Manager for our client in Charlotte, NC. Candidates must be able to work on SkillStorm's W2; not a C2C position. EOE, including disability/vets.

Job Description:

  • Our Client is looking for a Project Manager who has prior experience in Market Risk or Global Markets middle/back office technology. This is a multi-disciplinary role that will require the successful candidate to take on numerous diverse responsibilities and will necessitate close partnership with senior business and technology managers. Ideally, the candidate will have a background in development or have worked very closely with development teams.
  • This individual will work with business users and technology groups to:
  • Work with stakeholders to ensure comprehensive requirements are provided to define project scope and goals.
  • Work with dev team to define milestones and create detail project plan.
  • Work with technology teams to define and document the implementation approach ensuring it meets user requirements
  • Manage the project plan, drive project completion, facilitating issues, maintaining control over scope and ensuring that project artifacts are maintained
  • Identify risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies (RAID) and proactively manage/reporting RAIDs.
  • Work with QA teams to ensure that comprehensive test cases are executed and coordinate testing cycles and runs
  • Responsibilities also includes planning, coordination and execution of tollgates across a large & complex program to ensure comply with enterprise change control process.
  • Responsible for weekly status reporting, prepare materials to present to stakeholders

Required Skills:

  • A flexible, hardworking and "can do" attitude; comfortable working in a fast paced environment with frequent release cycles and rapidly changing priorities.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to effectively communicate within a multi-disciplined team, across multiple locations and time zones, and to interact with demanding business users.
  • Strong ownership and follow through.
  • Strong project management and organization skills, attention to details.
  • Ability to remove obstacles and influence others to move projects forward.
  • Strong financial markets product knowledge, market risk experience (any asset class).
  • Excellent technical skills; SQL, MS Excel, jira, MS Project, sharepoint, Visio, MS Powerpoint, MS Word.

Desired Skills:

  • Computer Engineering/Financial Degree
  • Experience with Agile methodologies.
  • Experience with VaR, Risk Analytics would be a definite advantage
  • Exposure to financial / product control functions within a bank.
  • Exposure to Java, or Python scripting.
  • Exposure to Program Project Risk Tool (PPRT)

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