Project Manager (Commercial banking) - NYC (Mid-town)

[muthu krishnan]

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Title: Project Manager (Commercial banking)

Duration: Long Term

Location: NNYC (Midtown) Will be remote initially due to Covid-10.

IT Project Manager Job Description
The Bank is seeking a Project Manager to project manage project streams / modules within a commercial bank application implementation project.  Must have previous experience project managing commercial bank projects.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Manage project activities for one or more project streams, coordinating with the business, Information Technology, Vendor and various operations teams as necessary to insure a complete and successful transition from old to new product suites.
• Manage the project stream ensuring that the project tasks are delivered on time and to the expectations of project sponsors and stakeholders.
• Track action/decision items within the project stream for modules/products and follow up for closure / resolution.
• Coordinate with business users, business analysts, subject matter experts, developers and testers for task completion.
• Use Bank’s change control process to ensure only necessary changes are introduced, and with appropriate approvals.
• Prepare all project documentation including business requirements document, progress reports, change control documentation, traceability Matrix and other documents to comply with the Bank’s Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and overall management processes.
• Identify project risks and work with senior team to identify and implement mitigating strategies as required.
• Prepare for and run business user group meetings as required.
• Prepare reports for weekly project status meetings.

Candidate Qualifications:

• 5+ years project management experience in banking and financial services, with a focus on banking application implementations specifically with commercial Banking solutions, conversions and integration of banking applications.
• Experience with Banking solutions and applications integrated with banking solutions such as Branch/Teller, transaction processing, loan, Cash Management, data warehouse, cold storage and imaging solutions
• Project management experience with any of the following functionality: Customer, conversions, deposits, loans, teller/branch, data warehouse, cold storage, imaging, accounting, general ledger, Digital channels.
• Experience with technical project components such as system integration, data conversion/migrations, file transfer and decommissioning solutions.
• Strong experience managing third party vendor relationship with Banking Vendor
• Experience in developing reports for weekly, monthly project status meeting.
• Experience leading meetings of employees at all levels, including project status
• PMP certification desirable

Personal Skills:

• Professional with knowledge of, and experience with, project management ‘best practices’
• Outstanding organizational and leadership skills, with an ability to drive issues to consensus, while incenting a positive collaborative environment
• Good analytical skills
• Ability to build strong relationships and influence project participants at all levels
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Willingness to take project ownership and accountability
• Strong working knowledge of MS Powerpoint and MS Excel
• Able to use Microsoft Project, and other Microsoft Office programs
• Knowledge of Service now, Confluence and JIRA for project tracking

Regards

Muthu
269 815 6107

mu...@aetsolutions.com