Project Manager

Project Manager

Requirements

• A minimum of 10-12 years relevant experience within the finance industry
• Prior business project management experience required
• Strong MS Office skills required
• Demonstrated experience with planning and leading cross-functional initiatives
• Strong communication, presentation and influencing skills
• Experience with establishing an organised and structured approach to change initiatives with a strong awareness of business risk
• Strong interpersonal skills to build relationships with our business and technology partners
• Comfort interacting with all levels of the organization
• Experience in establishing clear accountability and ownership for project deliverables across other teams while taking accountability for own work and being a self-motivated, productive colleague
• Act with urgency to ensure essential plans remain on course and issues are effectively communicated
• Talent to drive creative thinking and collaboration to surface strategic solutions
• Ability to solve complex problems

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple projects and / or a large program, which includes responsibility for overall execution, project structure, workstream management and adherence to the Change Management Framework, status reporting & presentation, and transparent issue management and escalation.
• Actively collaborate and facilitate discussions with applicable business functions across SSGA, other State Street business lines and external partners to deliver project objectives.
• Interact with leadership across SSGA and the broader State Street organization to provide ongoing transparency and support for initiative.
• Establish the project structure required to provide a clear determination of stakeholder accountability and ownership.
• Engage stakeholders to define the actions required to achieve the expected outcomes of the initiative and drive the involved parties toward completion of the deliverables.
• With stakeholder input, appropriately communicate and track progress, dependencies and assumptions, roles and responsibilities, issues and risks, and key milestones.
• Furthermore, escalate all risks and issues promptly, to the required governance level, and with mitigation proposals where appropriate.
• Produce, maintain and manage approval of required project documentation in alignment with the change management framework.
• Manage adherence to, or agreed changes to, project scope to ensure the project remains focused on expected outcomes and target deliverables.
• Manage stakeholder engagement to identify where processes can be aligned and standardized via common and robust solutions as well as by identifying means to mitigate risk and improve controls.
• Communicate project updates in a clear, timely and transparent manner via suitable forums and mediums to all applicable persons/groups including senior management committees, fund/legal entity boards, and regulatory forums.
• Have a change management mindset throughout the lifecycle of the effort and embed process ownership and knowledge into the respective business lines by engagement of business teams through the project lifecycle focusing on ongoing governance and control structure to maintain the benefits of the project beyond implementation.
• Identify conflicts as they arise and engage appropriate parties to resolve.
• Build a connection with all stakeholders to achieve active participation in project meetings and solution evaluation, including strong coordination with our IT project management team.
• Collaborate with other members of the Strategic Implementation team to grow our global talent pool and continue to evolve project management practices.
• Support the global team in recruitment and mentoring of new team members; lead by promoting the values of the team and aim to maintain strong positive team engagement.
• Provide input to senior leadership planning within the global Strategic Implementation team, building on our value proposition, supporting executive level resource planning and firm wide prioritization of initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in project management within the finance industry is preferred but not strictly required.