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Operations Project Manager - Level 2 - Daily
LanceSoft Inc
🇺🇸 United States
On-site
Manager or above
6 months ago
$720 – $800 / day
- MS Project
- Excel
- PowerPoint
6 months ago
Location: Jersey City NJ 07310
Pay Range: $720-800/Day on W2
Responsibilities:
Project Management:
- Manage and lead assigned projects to completion with delivery of agreed objectives
- Ensure that all projects follow Group Policies and Procedure – including proper Project Governance and reporting to senior management & stakeholders
- Create and lead appropriate project governance
- Identify and stabilize the scope of business topics to be addressed / resolved
- Identify and obtain the buy-in from the Primary Project Stakeholders and Sponsor
- Secure the resource plan and prioritization / funding of those resources
- Leverage expertise and problem-solving skills to propose solutions during each phase of the project
- Drive the delivery effort by maintaining project lists, organizing follow up meetings, creating and distributing meeting minutes
- Identify risk and dependencies that could jeopardize project execution.
- Ensure clear communication of goals, budget, risks, efforts involved, as well as on the progress of the project
- Work closely with all functions - Front office, Operations, Finance, IT, Compliance, Legal, Risk etc. to ensure successful delivery of project objectives.
- Manage situations of conflict and constraints to ensure the success of the project.
Business Analysis:
- Elicit business requirements using interviews & subject matter expertise
- Document requirements, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, task and workflow analysis
- Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, & decompose high-level information into details
- Abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the true underlying needs
- Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to deliver the following artifacts as needed: (1) Business Requirements Documents, (2) Test & Use Cases
- Challenge business users on their assumptions & how they expect to successfully implement requirement
Contribute to the building of maximum efficiency within the Firm:
- Analyse the current procedures and make change proposals to improve productivity, efficiency and risk control
- Work closely with the Operations and IT managers to properly measure the impact of new systems/processes on the staff's workload and determine the new staffing requirements where applicable.
Contribute to the successful implementation of new systems:
- Work with various users to clearly identify business requirements – from Front Office to Finance.
- Collaborate with IT to ensure that the system functionalities meet the user requirements.
- Propose procedural changes to take advantage of the new system functionalities.
- Facilitate the planning between IT and users to ensure all phases of the project are on track and that the appropriate level of testing is carried out.
Minimum Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree from accredited university with focus on Finance, Economics, Business Administration or other relevant field of study.
- 6 – 8 years of relevant industry experience.
- Expertise in Front Office and Operations (functional or in a project capacity), with knowledge of Banking and Capital Market activities
- A keen focus on ‘Process and Risk’ awareness is a KEY CRITERIA for this position.
- Deep knowledge of & experience executing all project management concepts.
- Project planning, documentation experience, & stakeholder management is essential
Minimum Required Qualifications Cont’d:
- Excellent level of knowledge of MS Project, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Business Analyst experience is valuable
- The candidate:
- Must have an in-depth understanding of project life cycle and what each phase implies.
- Must have excellent communication and reporting skills – Both written and oral.
- Must be able to professionally and efficiently manage situations of conflict and work with collaborators to arrive at a solution.
- Needs to demonstrate the ability to adapt and learn new processes quickly.
- Needs to show ability to multi-task and shift gears for various topics and perimeter during the project life cycle (i.e. Knowledge of FO Products and processes, Operations, IT, Finance etc.).
- Must be able to demonstrate the ability to delve into complicated situations (issues, people, processes etc.), sort out the information and propose the solution/next steps.
Operations Project Manager - Level 2 - Daily · LanceSoft Inc