Project Manager

Project Manager 
Getzville, NY. 

Contract Duration: 12+ Months

Required Skills & Experience

• 10+ years of experience in project management roles, specifically within the Data domain
• Strong experience in a large global bank or financial services
• Extensive experience using Excel for data analysis
• Experience gathering user requirements, functional documentation, and business requirement documents
• Familiarity with reference data and accounts data in a back-office context
• Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint)
• Ability to rationalize and work through organizational change
• Experience in designing business process models and solutioning to support strategic design decision
• Proven track record in terms of evaluating process performance across key metrics and envisioning ways to reengineer the process to create significant improvement across all key variables
• Ability to engage with multiple stakeholders across business, operations, technology and compliance, including those at senior levels
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
• Comprehensive knowledge of the principles of business analysis
• Proven ability to manage complex and variable issues with substantial potential impact by weighing various action plans and balancing potentially conflicting need

What You Will Be Doing

• Hands-on project management and analysis related to multiple strategic work efforts across Data & Regulatory Operations.
• Use project management to oversee the establishment of the new utility, ensuring all aspects are on track and on schedule.
• Create, maintain full end to end operations project and ensure sign-off of project plan, charter, stakeholder management plan, acceptance plan, and central project issue log.
• Provide in-depth and sophisticated analyses with interpretive thinking to define problems, develop innovative solutions and influence strategic functional decisions
• Engage global stakeholders across product and functional domains to drive transformative changes.
• Review use cases and manage work streams across geographies for Data & Regulatory Operations for process improvement, strategic technology solutions and automation and Change Management.
• Apply knowledge of Data concepts and procedures to resolve issues and complete required analysis.
• Provide implementation / post-implementation project support.
• Identify data patterns & trends, and provides insights to enhance business decision making capability in business planning, process improvement, solution assessment etc.
• Recommend actions for future developments & strategic business opportunities, as well as enhancements to operational policies.
• Continuously improve processes and strategies by exploring and evaluating new data sources, tools, and capabilities.