Senior Project Manager (Wealth Management)
Typical Day in Role
- Manage and ensure the successful delivery of complex projects involving multiple teams from different groups across the bank, as well as external vendors when required
- Is accountable for planning the end-to-end design of significant processes and projects (the full journey)
- managing to the Enterprise Delivery Framework (SDLC, PMLC) to ensure timely completion of artifacts
- Demonstrates ability to develop and maintain high functioning project teams
- Influences business project decisions with direct impact on financials or operating results
- Provides technical advice and leads the development of the roadmap within the context of a technical specialty
- Ability to independently run executive Steerco meetings with Group Heads, EVPs, and SVPs
- Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge Recommends technical strategy within a technical domain, may investigate and evaluate new technologies
- Work with executive sponsors and business managers to prioritize requirements, issues and deliverables
- Create and maintain risk/issue logs and escalate issues to stakeholders and steering committee as appropriate
- Defines and maintains the roadmap and project budget forecast across technology groups to provide
- Work with Scrum Master understand the impact of velocity/burndown against capacity and schedule to present findings to Program Leadership
Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
- Must have previous experience working with Wealth Management
- Minimum 5 years experience with Financial Banking Institutions is a must due to gating and controls
- Minimum 5 years experience managing projects through to deployment to end
- Prior experience with Data Strategy workstream. This PM must have previous Data and analytics projects with exposure to Talend
- Must have solid experience in managing financials forecast and reporting
- Must have solid expert Excel experience (Pivot tables, Dashboard Reporting)
- Must have experience in IT delivery with deep knowledge of SDLC and Release Management Framework
- Must have experience packaging content for Executive presentation with clear messaging
Soft Skills:
- Strong Written/Verbal Communication Skills
- Works well under pressure
- Autonomous and driven
- Ability to work in a complex environment
Degrees or certifications:
– University Degree in relevant field
– PMP certification or working towards