Job Background/Context:

The Information Services Group (ISG) is responsible for providing authoritative sources of reference data to our clients across the Institutional Client Services (ICG) organization, through implementing state of the art technologies which promote the collection, storage, analysis, and distribution of product, pricing, account and corporate action data. The ISG organization works in partnership with data clients across all ICG business lines, deploying solutions to increase their competitiveness, through restructuring business processes, simplifying information access, and providing business intelligence around critical data.

Job Purpose:

This is a challenging and exciting opportunity to work on a global strategic technology platforms for one of the world’s largest financial institutions. The role is part of the team that is implementing a Global Corporate Action Event Repository (EMC), supporting key areas of the business. It is essential to have proven project management experience and a desire to work in both technical tasks and business analysis activities. The individual is required to support both BAU & regional implementation projects, managing projects of various complexity & size.

Responsibilities:

• Determine and define project scope and objectives
• Predict resources needed to reach objectives and manage resource in an effective and efficient manner
• Develop and manage a detailed project schedule and work plan
• Provide project updates on a consistent basis to various stakeholders
• Utilize industry best practices, techniques and standards throughout entire project execution
• Monitor progress and make adjustment as needed
• Measure project performance to identify areas for improvement
• Manage relationships with clients and stakeholders
   

Qualifications:

• 1-5 years of project management experience – preferably from a financial services environment
• PMP certification strongly preferred
• Ability to develop project plans, manage individual deadlines and goals.
• Knowledge of project metrics, including gathering, reporting, trend analysis, creation, and metrics.
• Ability to identify issues and problems, generate solutions and choose appropriate alternatives using basic root cause analysis.
• Manage project scope by assessing requirements changes, determining and conveying impact on budget, time and risk.
• Manage client expectations, anticipates operational and tactical risks and tracks them; clarify, identify, and track requirements and issues, remove barriers, resolve minor project issues and escalate to immediate manager where required.
• Proficient in MS Office applications, MS Project, VISIO, and JIRA.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master’s degree preferred