Compliance – Project Manager – Implementation & Execution – Associate

Compliance – Project Manager – Implementation & Execution – Associate

Requirements

• Proven experience in financial services project management, regulatory compliance, or related fields.
• Working knowledge of regulatory requirements relevant to the industry.
• Proven experience solving complex problems.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and meet competing deadlines – project management skills are a must.
• Drive, motivation and resilience – ability to handle multiple tasks, taking initiative to improve his / her own performance, working intensely towards goals and persisting in the face of obstacles or setbacks.
• Ability to build long-term relationships and consensus across divisions.
• Collaborative and team-oriented, encourages other team members and acknowledges others’ contributions.
• Exceptional attention to detail.
• Strong written and oral communication skills with confidence and ability to create, structure and present messages to senior audiences.
• Strong analytical, quantitative, and MS Excel skills.
• Excellent critical thinking and problem solving skills.
• Ability to coordinate activities with multiple interdependencies across a number of GS internal teams.
• Creativity and innovation, with an ability to critically examine current processes to propose and develop improvements.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage project plans for regulatory remediation efforts, including scope, timelines, resources, and deliverables.
• Coordinate with internal teams, regulatory bodies, and external consultants to facilitate remediation efforts and communicate progress.
• Identify and manage risks associated with remediation projects, implementing mitigation strategies as needed.
• Work closely with internal audit (IA) teams to address findings and recommendations, ensuring that remediation plans effectively resolve identified issues.
• Ensure that remediation projects are prepared for internal and external audit, maintaining clear and comprehensive documentation of remediation activities.
• Track project progress, prepare status reports, and present findings to senior management and stakeholders.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of remediation activities, including issue tracking, action plans, and outcomes.
• Partnering with leadership / divisions to identify, define and document project objectives and requirements.
• Working with and across businesses and CFO&E (Controllers, Finance, Operations & Engineering) teams to develop and execute project plans to achieve objectives; identifying key milestones and critical path.
• Contributing to project and operating effectiveness by bringing a deep understanding of processes and systems used in Banking.
• Structuring ambiguous problems and taking action to solve them without complete information.
• Preparing materials for working groups and committees, project dashboards, operating model diagrams, requirement specifications, test plans, etc.
• Conducting detailed problem tracking, resolution and completion of all actions and issues by their deadlines.
• Communicating updates, statuses and timelines to stakeholders, and escalating items at risk.
• Delivering key results to senior management and addressing their queries.
• Supporting teams with best practices, program-wide tools, dashboards and other enablers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in internal audit, risk or remediation projects is highly desirable.
• Ideally a strong understanding of Investment Banking businesses, financial concepts, products and services.