Project Manager
New York
Contract – Immediate Start
800-1000 per day
Our firmly established and highly respected digital transformation client specializes in the financial sector. Covering market data, trading, technology, and compliance, they are well-placed to deliver complete solutions for the largest of financial institutions. They now have an immediate need for an experienced Project Manager to complete a minimum 12-month contract.
As an NYC based Project Manager, you will:
- Develop and maintain a project plan, Agile JIRA board, and project communication tools
- Lead an Agile team through Scrum ceremonies and related activities to plan, capture, and meet sprint deliverables
- Provide appropriate reporting metrics and status
- Manag a large project team of business analysts, developers, and testers to ensure they stay on track and meet agreed-upon deliverables with direction from Program Manager, Systems Designer, and Product Owner
- Identify/manage risks and issues and collaboratively develop mitigation plans
- Coordinate completion of required project governance documents/artifacts to meet corporate guidelines
- Be accountable for meeting all business requirements from development through implementation
- Partner with technology and PMO organizations to ensure best practices and planning for implementation
- Communicate and work with various business and technical SMEs
- Facilitate lessons learned and retain information in a central location for future use
- A Bachelor’s degree in business administration or related fields is required. Master of Business Administration and/or CFA designation is preferred
- At least 7+ years of professional experience working at the intersection of investment management and technology with a focus on front, middle and back-office operations and data management required
- Excellent interpersonal and team management skills
- Experience leading and managing large, complex agile transformations, with expertise around specific issues that arise with agile in functions including Investment Operations and Portfolio Risk Analytics and beyond
- Demonstrated ability to partner with investment/business personnel
- Ability to collaborate with and drive business and systems subject matter experts
- Ability to communicate effectively using verbal and written methods to all levels of an organization
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- Proficient experience with Project Management tools including but not limited to: Atlassian Jira, Zephyr for Jira, Smartsheets as well as MS Office Suite
- Certified ScrumMaster preferred. PMP is desired but not required
- Experience managing and controlling application-oriented vendor software updates
- Large-scope projects, typically cross-functional and technically difficult, often involving combinations of platforms and computing environments, and technologies.
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