Our client, a fortune 50 financial services firm is seeking an IT Project Manager to join their team. As a PM, you will be part of the Market Risk/Global Markets Teams supporting middle/back office technology. This is a multi-disciplinary role that will require the successful candidate to take on numerous diverse responsibilities and will necessitate close partnership with senior business and technology managers. Ideally, the candidate will have a background in development or have worked very closely with development teams.

Job Title: IT Project Manager

Location: Jersey City, NJ

Schedule: 3x on site, 2 wfh

Contract duration: 12-18 mos

Pay Range: $67.71/hr

What’s the Job?

• This individual will work with business users and technology groups to:

• Work with stakeholders to ensure comprehensive requirements are provided to define project scope and goals.

• Work with dev team to define milestones and create detail project plan.

• Work with technology teams to define and document the implementation approach ensuring it meets user requirements

• Manage the project plan, drive project completion, facilitating issues, maintaining control over scope and ensuring that project artifacts are maintained

• Identify risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies (RAID) and proactively manage/reporting RAIDs.

• Work with QA teams to ensure that comprehensive test cases are executed and coordinate testing cycles and runs

• Responsibilities also includes planning, coordination and execution of tollgates across a large complex program to ensure comply with enterprise change control process.

• Responsible for weekly status reporting, prepare materials to present to stakeholders

What’s Needed?

• A flexible, hardworking and "can do" attitude, comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with frequent release cycles and rapidly changing priorities.

• Excellent communication skills and ability to effectively communicate within a multi-disciplined team, across multiple locations and time zones, and to interact with demanding business users.

• Strong ownership and follow through.

• Strong project management and organization skills, attention to details.

• Ability to remove obstacles and influence others to move projects forward.

• Strong financial markets product knowledge, market risk experience (any asset class).

• Excellent technical skills; SQL, MS Excel, Jira, MS Project, SharePoint, Visio, MS PowerPoint, MS Word.

• Experience with Agile methodologies.

• Experience with VaR, Risk Analytics would be a definite advantage

• Exposure to financial / product control functions within a bank.

• Exposure to Java, or Python scripting.

• Exposure to Program Project Risk Tool (PPRT)

If this is a role that interests you and you’d like to learn more, click apply now and a recruiter will be in touch with you to discuss this great opportunity. We look forward to speaking with you!

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