Title: Technology Project Manager (front office w/SPM)
Location: 3 for NYC, Jersey City and 3 for Charlotte
NOTE: A Technology Project Manager with Front Office and SPM refers to a project management professional specializing in technology-related projects within the Front Office of a financial institution or corporation, with experience or expertise in SPM (Sales Performance Management or Strategic Portfolio Management).
we are seeking a Front Office Project Manager to focus on building out our Front to Back Trade Support across bilateral and cleared Interest Rate, FX, and Credit Default Derivatives products.
Role Objectives
- Project Management implementation for strategic projects and enhancements across Rates, XVA, FX Desks, ETrading, and F2B Department Trade Support
- Lead new projects from inception through production go live, managing the project lifecycle across authoring Project Initiation Documents/Business Requirements Documents, Status Reports, leading Front to Back UAT across Users/Developers
- Working knowledge of products, services, business flows and understanding of financial context in which technology and operating principles are used withing their business area.
- Interacts with Business Analysts, Developers, Business Stakeholders, Program Managers
- Coordinate and facilitate routines to support delivery (e.g., kick-offs, reviews, stakeholder meetings, change controls, tollgates).
- Plan and coordinate delivery and dependencies across multiple teams supporting recourse planning for delivery and execution.
- Facilitate dependency management, risk management, and impediment removal for defined deliverables.
- Ensure execution meets client expectations for functionality, quality, timeline, and cost, as well as facilitating synchronization points across organizations.
- Gather and provide status updates to stakeholders and leadership regarding delivery, risks, and schedule
- Facilitates project planning against backlog/prioritized work. Manages risk/dependencies/impediments for on team. Ability to answer teams agile/waterfall framework questions.
- Understands all roles and responsibilities within their project working group and uses the tool sets within the software lifecycle
- Responsible for artifacts, routines, coordination and communication needed for governance forums. Understands stakeholder expectations and creates regular updates to keep stakeholders informed
- Identifies risk/dependencies and quantifies the impact it has on the business/technology and what controls are to be used to resolve
Qualifications and Skills
- 8+ years of experience in bank capital markets as a Project Manager with proven experience relating to Front, Middle Office and/or Back Office system implementations or equivalent operational experience.
- Strong work ethic with focus on meeting deadlines, objectives, and ability to learn new products and systems in a timely manner
- Bilateral and cleared Rates and FX Products experience across Swaptions, Cross Currency IRS, OIS, FRAs Deliverable Forwards, FX Options, Non Deliverable Forwards, Swap Spreads, Invoice Spreads
- Fixed Income Products experience across Treasuries(Bills, Notes, Bonds), Credit(IG, HY, EM), Agency Discount Notes
- Prior Capital Markets or Fixed Income Products experience, ability to demonstrate projects successfully launched and benefits
- Working knowledge of OTC market operations across Compression, Initial Margin Optimization, Clearing(CME, JSCC, LCH, ICE), and up to date on industry best practices
- Front to Back Trade support experience across booking new trades, trade affirmation, clearing, lifecycle events (Allocations, Novation’s, Backloading)
- Understands trade lifecycle F2B from Trade Execution(SEF / Off SEF) through affirmation, risk capture down to settlement of cash flow, variation margin initial margin
- SIMM IM vs Cleared IM, Risk Weighted Assets, MPOR, Delta, Present Values etc.. a plus
- Strong verbal and written communication skills. Ability to communicate effectively and confidently with users, team members.
- Strong analytical, strategic thinking and problem solving skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
- Strong skills working with MS Excel, MS Project, MS Word, MS Power Point & SharePoint, Confluence
- Bachelor's degree. Finance, Computer Science or Information Systems preferred.