Project Manager

Project Manager

Location: Boston, MA - hybrid onsite

Duration: 6 months, likely to extend

Pay: 80-85/hr

Job Description

• Lead day-to-day execution of a highly visible, cross-functional transformation program within Markets Technology.
• Bring strong program management, business analysis, governance, and executive communication skills.
• Organize complex work and drive progress across a large, matrixed financial institution.
• Establish program scope, outcomes, workstreams, milestones, resource needs, and acceptance criteria.
• Create and maintain the integrated program plan, roadmap, RAID register, dependency map, decision log, action tracker, and executive status reporting.
• Establish effective delivery governance, including working sessions, steering forums, decision rights, escalation paths, and evidence-based closure standards.
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to define current-state processes, future-state requirements, operating impacts, controls, and implementation priorities.
• Lead requirements workshops and convert complex discussions into clear requirements, process flows, decisions, owners, and delivery actions.
• Coordinate and drive accountability across application, infrastructure, cyber security, data, operations, risk, compliance, audit, finance, procurement, and vendor teams.
• Identify delivery risks and dependencies, develop mitigation plans, and escalate issues with clear options and recommendations.
• Prepare executive presentations, decision papers, dashboards, meeting materials, and status communications.
• Manage program financials, resource forecasts, vendor activities, delivery forecasts, and change control.
• Coordinate business readiness, implementation planning, communications, training, testing, controls, and transition to sustainable operations.
• Use data, workflow tools, automation, and artificial intelligence responsibly to improve transparency, quality, and delivery speed.

Qualifications & Skills

• 10+ years of financial program management experience.
• Experience managing large-scale programs.
• Senior-level program management and business analysis experience.
• Financial services / banking experience.
• Strong governance, requirements, and project planning skills.
• Experience managing RAID, dependencies, risks, milestones, and action items.
• Strong executive communication and presentation skills.
• Experience working across large, matrixed organizations.
• Strong stakeholder, vendor, and cross-functional team management.
• Ability to bring structure to ambiguity and drive accountability.
• Experience with transformation, technology delivery, and business process change.

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