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Project Manager

JERSEY CITY-07097, NJ, US
12/06/2018

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Required Skills

PMP

Company

Infinity Consulting Solutions, Inc

Experience

2 to 5 Year(s)

Job Description

Job Description:

Project Execution Lead acts as a Product Owner + Project Manager. You will bring functional expertise in Asset Management data and lifecycle of trades and securities.

In addition, you will bring laser sharp focus and attention to details towards project execution, tracking, course correction, escalations, etc.

You will coordinate and help run working group meetings for this initiative with members from operations, technology, CDO, and select others from front office and external parties.

You will be hands-on in the discovery of investment accounting differences amongst regions and amongst front office, accounting, and custodian/fund administrator views. You will get sign-off on current and target state processes around reconciliation of these views.

First deliverable will be a proof of concept for a select set of accounts / asset classes / region(s).

You will lead the documentation of a functional specification for the target solution.

You will also be responsible for coordinating user acceptance testing, being single point of contact for production sign-off, data migration (from legacy to new world), and lead the effort on prod-parallel, as needed.

You should be able to build lightweight prototype models in excel / Tableau.

Project Management throughout the full systems development life cycle using both Agile and waterfall methodologies

Develop project budgets, tracks actuals against forecast and remains within departmental guidelines for variance

Drive issue escalation and resolution; risk identification and mitigation and the overall removal of roadblocks that impede progress of the project

Complete written and verbal status reporting

Defining, documenting, and communication of standardized Agile delivery processes to be adopted by various teams

Defining key performance indicators for status reporting and applying strong data analytical skills in order to produce meaningful metrics for managing Agile delivery

Liaise with management in key stakeholder groups (i.e. Business, Operations, Technology, Risk, Legal, etc.)

Development and implementation of work plans

Coordination across various cross impacted teams

Qualifications:

MUST: At least a BS degree from a reputed university/college. Certification / diploma / degree in finance or economics or CFA preferred.

MUST: Understanding of Asset Management value chain and corresponding data sets lifecycles of trades and securities and valuation of holdings. Understanding of
investment accounting of equities, futures, fixed income, and derivatives is a plus.

MUST: Experience working through entire lifecycle of at least one large complex application build-out and delivery for either a large financial organization or a top-
class technology product team.

2-5 years of experience in the role of Project Manager / Program Manager / Project
Delivery lead and 5-7 years of experience in non-lead PM roles. Experience building a truly distributed architecture based system, especially involving large data volumes and real-time distribution will be huge plus.

Knowledge of CI/CD, DevOps tool chain, and a test-driven approach to agile delivery is expected.

Knowledge of project management framework and methodologies is expected. Certifications like PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, PfMP are a plus.

Proven leadership qualities as well as high performance track record

Hands on experience with project management tools such as JIRA, Confluence, MS Project, etc.