This role resides within CIB Global Compliance CAO Organization and is accountable for supporting the effective execution of the firm wide projects and business management functions. Specifically, the position provides support to the CIB Compliance teams and the North America CIB Compliance leads. The role is responsible for managing the delivery of large scale initiatives across CIB Compliance, either globally or regionally, which includes managing activities related to program timeline and deliverables management, dependencies management, issue escalation, risk management and communications on progress to program teams and senior/executive management, phase end checkpoint coordination and reporting. Projects may involve participation from and have an impact on multiple functions & regions, and will support both tactical and strategic initiatives.
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Work with the CIB Compliance leadership in defining, prioritizing and achieving strategic objectives and, ensuring projects delivered meet the approved business requirements.
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Establish working relationships and routinely interface with: project sponsors, business stakeholders, technology partners, subject matter experts, and other internal/external clients.
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Project management role may range from; project creation / initiation, day-to-day project execution, project activity oversight, and periodic project / program status reporting of CIB Compliance projects – with some or all of the following activities:
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Participate in / deliver multiple projects, or other process improvement initiatives, with possible cross-department impacts
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Help lead project teams through the project lifecycle from concept to project execution, and ensure quality and timeliness of project deliverables and overall completion
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Help define project objectives, success metrics, plan project deliverables with all impacted parties and oversee the execution of the overall plan
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Gather, analyze, and document business requirements, as well as creating/reviewing Business Requirement Documents
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Escalate project issues and risks appropriately – and help drive them to resolution
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Identify and document best practices, and drive implementation
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Independently develop ‘value-add’ business solutions
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Prepare standard and ad-hoc management reports and presentations
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Lead business analysis and process design sessions
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Prepare, and sometimes deliver, executive presentations
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Participate in, and potentially lead, progress status meetings at the operational and project level.
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Act as coordinator between Compliance and Technology
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Maintain a transparent environment; publish regular updates of project status and identify and resolve/escalate issues, risks and dependencies, provide updates as required – both verbal and written
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Ensure compliance of project and development activities with audit and risk policies in mind
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Familiarity with a global bank’s processes and operational environment, including business knowledge of / familiarity with Investment Banking and Markets businesses
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Considerable experience in project management, with experience with and/or prior project collaboration across businesses, business support functions, and Technology
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Experience managing project stakeholders, including skills to facilitate compromises and resolve conflicting requirements
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Strong consulting and stakeholder management skills, a client service philosophy, and the ability to build and foster internal relationships
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Experience in project initiation; be able to set up appropriate project structures and protocols
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Candidates must have had responsibility for people and process elements, ideally a business project manager, who understands human change elements implicit in project delivery
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Superior presentation and communication skills, and can sell self and ideas
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Excellent analytical skills and business acumen
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Self-motivated, team-player that demonstrates initiative
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Highly organized, extremely detailed, and control orientated
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Understanding of the financial services regulatory and compliance environment and lifecycle is a plus
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Strong PC Skills including Microsoft Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint and other reporting tools
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Financial Services background required. Management Consulting experience a plus
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BA/BS degree required
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7-10 years of relevant work experience in project management role