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As a Project Manager, you will participate in projects and provide support for various initiatives and any associated business transformation projects. You may be involved in multiple projects or initiatives, working across the whole project lifecycle, researching new projects, business process changes, configuration changes or system modifications. Through a strong partnership with Business, Operations, and Technology counterparts, you will work on project deliverables. Primary areas of focus include eliciting project or initiative requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, and task and workflow analysis. In this team, you will gain an in-depth knowledge of all operational flows and contribute to a growing international business in a fast-paced and innovative environment. Our success depends on close collaboration with counterparts from all areas in the business. That mindset and collaboration are integral parts of what makes the firm one of the most respected financial institutions in the world. If you are a strategic thinker who takes ownership in driving solutions, initiatives, and projects, this could be the role for you. Being part of the Projects and Business Innovation Support team, you will be working in conjunction with our internal partners including Client Service, Advisors, Operations, Technology, Product, Business Management, Legal, Risk, and Compliance. **Job Responsibilities:** - Building and maintaining strong relationships with key partners across multiple regions - Working with the business and key project stakeholders to define and document business operating models and requirements - Partnering with Technology to ensure requirements are implemented as per specification - Performing data analysis and definition of target operating models and processes - Coordinating testing across the functional groups - Managing and executing tasks through to completion and effectively prioritizing work - Preparing projects and meeting material, minutes, and action items follow-up - Ensuring a full audit trail of project deliverables is available for all undertaken tasks - Challenging status-quo, identifying and addressing any process, controls, and Operating Model improvements - Supporting the design and vision of the strategic technical architecture - Ensuring key risks and issues are escalated in a timely manner and through the appropriate formal governance - Managing regular updates to management on project and project deliverables status - Embracing new project methodologies (Design thinking) and technical solutions - Identifying and addressing any process, controls, and Operating Model improvements **Required qualifications, skills, and capabilities:** - >10 years of Financial Services and Operations experience - Comprehensive knowledge of the principles of business analysis - Experience using Jira, Jira align & confluence - Experience with Agile Scrum & Scrum ceremonies (daily standup, sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospective) - Experience writing comprehensive features & stories to support product objectives - Strong backlog management skills, understanding product engineering mindset, and understanding of data-driven decision-making - Affinity to build data flows, workflows & mock-ups - Ability to work effectively in a team environment and across all organizational levels, where flexibility, collaboration, and adaptability are important - Proven record and experience in managing projects - Strong analytical, problem-solving skills, and attention to detail - Understanding and experience of project methodologies such as Agile, Waterfall, etc. - Strong knowledge of MS tools; Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, SharePoint - Knowledge of Product Operating model / Roadmap planning,
