Seeking:
Transformation experience within financial services + governance
Additional nice to have:
AI tools
Product
Regulatory
Financial / investment knowledge (fixed income, bonds, FX)
Job Description
The Digital & Platform Services Market Operations Transformation team is responsible for the delivery of the Strategic End State Programs drive scale, mitigate risk and improve overall client experience.
The Market Operations Transformation team is seeking an Associate who will be part of the Transformation Strategy team responsible for aligning cross-functional projects, ensuring that they're fiscally and technically within reason and aligned to the business priorities. The candidate will be asked to lead governance routines, work streams and projects across Markets Operations. The role will require collaboration with various internal teams and business leaders alike, delivering Target State Solutions that are aligned with the strategy, cost optimization, regulatory reporting, and end state client experience.
As a Project Manager for Markets Operations Initiatives, you'll manage strategic and tactical projects, and provide analytical, reporting, communications, and change management support for Markets Operations senior management. Projects may include digitization/automation, operational efficiency, regulatory, control, business resiliency and/or people initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Lead, manage, and drive execution of multiple projects across Markets Operations areas
- Activities supporting the governance infrastructure and protocols of the program
- Manage end-to-end delivery of projects/programs, partnering closely with teams across Operations, Technology, Sales & Trading, Data & Analytics, Legal & Compliance, Finance, Human Resources, and other corporate functions. This will include project planning and analysis, resource management, driving or overseeing project execution, and reporting of status to senior management
- Conduct data collection, data analysis, and synthesis to develop recommendations for management or to inform management decisions
- Leverage the latest digital tools and technologies to support development of scalable, leading-edge solutions
- Providing reporting, analytical, communications and project support to senior Markets Operations management
- Design and documentation of organizational and operational processes to support program execution
- Partner within the business and senior-level stakeholders to achieve stated goals
- Lead problem solving and data driven decision making inclusive of process design, re-engineering, and target state modeling
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
- 3 - 5 years project management / business analysis experience
- Markets or other related financial services experience preferred; experience in an operations and knowledge of industry regulations is a plus
- Excellent written/verbal communication and presentations skills targeting various stakeholders and senior management
- Strong presentation skillset with effective story telling
- Intermediate/Advanced experience using Microsoft Office, including Excel, and PowerPoint
- Excellent analytical and logical thinking to understand and analyze complex business problems
- Strong data analysis skills, including analysis of operational, process, and financial data
- Strong organizational and prioritization skills, detail-oriented, and strong interpersonal and influencing skills
- End-to-end project management experience, including scoping, business case development, implementation, results measurement and change management
- Ability to analyze and resolve project-related issues and follow through with set objectives
- Experience with emerging technologies and the latest digital tools is a plus
- Experience working with geographically distributed and culturally diverse work-groups
- Ability to develop strong partnerships across lines of business to achieve goals
- Proven ability to achieve quality results in a high-pressure, rapidly changing environment requiring flexibility / adaptability to changeable directives.
- Demonstrable experience in Fixed Income products and Credit Derivative products is desirable but not essential
