Senior Project Manager

Summary:

Location: New Jersey

Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end project delivery, ensuring objectives, timelines, and budgets are met.
• Establish project governance, reporting, and stakeholder communication.
• Define project scope, manage resources, and secure stakeholder buy-in.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and mitigation plans.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams including Front Office, Operations, IT, Finance, Compliance, Legal, and Risk.
• Drive issue resolution and manage conflicts to ensure project success.
• Gather and document business requirements through stakeholder engagement.
• Create Business Requirement Documents (BRDs), use cases, workflows, and test scenarios.
• Analyze complex business processes and recommend solutions.
• Challenge assumptions and identify underlying business needs.
• Partner with business and technology teams to ensure requirements are effectively implemented.
• Review existing processes and recommend efficiency, productivity, and risk-control improvements.
• Assess operational and staffing impacts of new systems and process changes.
• Support successful implementation of new systems by aligning business and technology teams.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or related field.
• Minimum 6 years of relevant project management experience within Banking or Capital Markets.

Preferred Skills:

• Deep understanding of project management lifecycle and methodologies.
• Excellent stakeholder management and executive reporting skills.
• Strong documentation and business analysis experience.
• Advanced proficiency in MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work across business, operations, and technology teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.