Project Manager Compliance Remediation Program

Position Title: Project Manager – Compliance Remediation Program
Location: New York City (hybrid - at least 1 day in the office per week)
Duration: 12 months+
 
Job description:
We're looking for an experienced Project Manager to work in a multi-workstream financial crime compliance (FCC) remediation program for one of our financial services clients. You'll sit at the intersection of program management and compliance: planning and tracking workstreams, managing regulatory remediation commitments (including items arising from MRIAs / MRAs), and producing governance reporting for senior client stakeholders. You'll rotate across compliance topics as the program evolves, so comfort moving between subject areas matters more than deep specialization in any single one.
The client is a large, highly regulated consumer and commercial payments and financial services business (card issuing, network/merchant services, and related lending products), operating under close supervision from U.S. federal banking and consumer-protection regulators. Its compliance function is executing a structured, multi-year remediation agenda spanning several FCC domains, with active oversight from regulators and Group/enterprise risk functions.
 
Basic Qualifications:

• 10 years combining project/program management with financial services compliance, ideally within a large bank, card issuer, or payments company.
• Hands-on experience managing MRA/MRIA (or equivalent regulatory finding) remediation, from root-cause analysis through closure and validation.
• Working knowledge of card issuing/payments business models and the regulatory environment around them.
• Demonstrated ability to work across multiple compliance topics without requiring deep specialization in any one.
• Strong PM fundamentals: planning, governance reporting, steering committee management, stakeholder alignment.
• Excellent executive communication — able to translate technical compliance detail into clear senior-level reporting.

Required Skills:

• Project management
• Financial crime compliance
• Regulatory remediation
• Governance reporting
• Stakeholder alignment

Preferred Qualifications:

• PMP, PRINCE2 or Agile certification.
• CAMS or equivalent financial crime compliance certification.
• Prior experience on consulting-led remediation engagements (Big 4 or strategy/implementation consultancy).
• Familiarity with RCSA methodology and risk-and-control-library-based reporting frameworks.

Role and responsibilities:

• Own project plans, milestones, and RAID logs across one or more concurrent compliance remediation workstreams, adjusting scope coverage as program priorities shift.
• Manage remediation action plans tied to regulatory commitments (MRAs/MRIAs and similar), ensuring root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and evidence are complete and audit-ready.
• Run governance routines — steering committees, status reporting, risk/issue escalation — aligning first- and second-line stakeholders and external advisors.
• Partner with compliance subject-matter leads (e.g., sanctions, AML/transaction monitoring, KYC, quality assurance) to structure deliverables and tracking methodology, without owning the technical content itself.
• Produce consolidated, executive-ready status reporting (RAG status, dependencies, timeline risk) for senior client leadership and Capgemini engagement leads.
• Manage resourcing, timelines, and interdependencies across the program, flagging capacity and scope risks early.