Job Responsibilities:

• Project Planning and Management: Lead the planning, management, and delivery of global projects. Develop and execute robust project plans, applying project management methodologies pragmatically. Utilize a clearly defined delivery roadmap, ensure thorough documentation, and deliver project artifacts. Maintain robust financial and risk management throughout the project lifecycle.
• Progress Monitoring: Manage progress against a defined plan, identify challenges, and mitigate potential cost or time delays. Ensure timely delivery of project milestones.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate with project stakeholders across various functional groups (e.g., Business, Compliance, Legal, Technology, Middle Office, Business Management) to define and document business requirements.
• Testing and Quality Assurance: Plan and oversee the testing of new functionalities and regression testing with Risk partners. Ensure high-quality deliverables and adherence to project specifications.
• Status Reporting: Provide regular updates on project status to management and stakeholders. Prepare status reports by gathering, analyzing, and summarizing relevant information.
• Process Analysis and Improvement: Analyze process flows, identify areas for process improvement, and document best practices to manage continuous improvement initiatives.
• Technical Solution Development: Develop solutions using Access, Excel, VBA, SQL, and advanced Python programming. Leverage these technologies to automate processes, enhance data analysis, and improve overall project efficiency.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Strategic and Management Consulting Experience: Proven experience in strategic consulting, management consulting, project management, process improvement, and product management.
• Project Execution and Management: Demonstrated experience in leading small to medium-scale project execution and management. Familiarity with end-to-end bank infrastructure, including front office, technology, operations, controls, data management, and risk.
• Implementation Projects: Experience in end-to-end implementation projects, including assessment, planning, project management, execution, and evaluation.
• Influence and Change Management: Ability to influence a cross-functional, diverse environment to drive change and challenge the status quo.
• Communication and Reporting: Strong skills in preparing status reports, establishing effective project communication plans, and ensuring their execution.
• Risk Analysis and Operational Change: Experience in risk analysis and driving operational change/system development.
• Technical Proficiency: Proficiency with Access, Visio, SQL, VBA, and Excel with macros knowledge. Advanced experience with Python programming for data analysis, automation, and solution development.

Preferred Skills:

• Advanced Python Programming: Expertise in Python for data manipulation, analysis, and automation. Experience with libraries such as pandas, NumPy, and scikit-learn is highly desirable. Proven experience in Python development, including writing and maintaining code, debugging, and implementing best practices.
• Agile Methodologies: Familiarity with Agile project management methodologies and tools.
• Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a keen attention to detail.
• Experience with Additional Tools: Experience with tools like Alteryx for data blending and advanced analytics, and Tableau for data visualization and dashboard creation is a plus.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Administration, Computer Science, or a related field. Advanced degrees or relevant certifications (e.g., PMP, CFA, FRM) are a plus.
• Minimum of 2-3 years of combined experience in project management and Python development, including writing and maintaining code, debugging, and implementing best practices.