Capital Markets Project Manager

Job Title: Capital Markets Project Manager

Duration: 18 Month W2 Contract

Location: Jersey City

Required Pay Scale: $70-$80/hour

Years of Experience

5-7 years- $70-75/hour

7-10 years- $75-80/hour

Project Details:

Capital Markets Project manager - 5-10 years of experience

Expert in excel, solid in SQL

Must have - strong cap market background

Ideal cap market exp: Risk, regulatory, and /or fixed income exp

Required Job Skills:

• Engage and communicate with multi-disciplinary teams to drive awareness, set vision, and help define strategy for target state.

• In depth understanding of Counterparty Credit Risk, Market Risk, Regulatory reporting, Fixed Income products (like Rates, Equities, FX, Commodities …), Prime Brokerage, Collateral and Margin

• Quickly understand the process flows of data across wide teams

• Partner across teams, develop and implement an effective governance structure, ensure adherence to program objectives and identify risk and control solutions.

• Communicates, influences, and negotiates both vertically and horizontally to obtain or leverage necessary resources

• Accountable for analyzing present-state gap, developing alternative future-state approaches, and facilitating implementation.

• Creates a clear, coherent approach to guide effective program/initiative setup, execution, and control

• Integrates knowledge of end-to-end business process into program planning and decisioning processes

• Well versed in Program Management including management of delivery, financials, reporting, escalations and enterprise data incident management

• Experience in Quartz based framework

Required Skills

• Minimum Bachelor degree with 10 years of experience managing diverse programs and projects/initiatives

• Experience in running governance for large scale technology programs

• Experience and tolerance to work iteratively in a fast-paced environment

• Demonstrates commitment to excellence by anticipating needs, mitigating risks and minimizing potential problems

• Collaborative, team player with the ability to connect across groups

• Critical thinking/analytical skills

• Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to make effective presentations

• Ability to navigate a highly matrixed organization effectively

Desired Skills

• Experience in Agile software development

• Preferred to have Banking and Financial Domain experience, understanding of enterprise data architectures in the financial industry with strong problem solving skills.