JOB DESCRIPTION:
- A Project Manager in the Enterprise Automation team is responsible for managing key projects for the duration of the project life cycle for DTCC businesses.
- The position requires an experienced professional with the right mix of relevant experience and skills, an ability to flex between the strategic and the tactical thinking, outstanding verbal and written communication skills, and a high level of energy and flexibility to get things done and thrive in a fast-paced, team-oriented development environment.
- This highly transparent role will work with the global leadership team, as well as the DTCC Business Divisions to manage project level management, reporting, enforce proper resource management policies and support cross functional activities responsibilities to efficiencies and project benefits realization.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Perform all aspects of the project management lifecycle (agile and waterfall) of small to mid-size projects simultaneously; accountable for project initiation, planning and execution, as well as responsible for day-to-day activities to ensure the project delivers expected business outcomes within approved scope
- Work closely with collaborators to plan and develop roadmap, scope, results, required resources, work plan, budget, and timing for assigned projects
- Proactively handle the risk, issue and change resolution process, and work with other leaders to take corrective action as needed; identify the ‘path to green’
- Run scrum ceremonies for multiple squads to ensure result is moving as expected. Assist teams in resolving impediments by acting as an efficient scrum master
- Assist team in coordinating Audit effort and ensuring relevant processes are adhered to wrt policies
- Ensure organization is operationally ready prior to implementation and has relevant documentation in place
- Collect collaborator needs and expectations, gaining and maintaining collaborator support, and mitigating opposition
- Adhere to project management methodologies, standards and tools
- Identify risks, opportunities, and dependencies across the portfolio of initiatives
- Produce and maintain project reports for collaborators, including senior management to provide transparency and to facilitate decision-making
- Lead project team meetings ensuring that project obstacles, issues and risks are surfaced, detailed and addressed
- Mitigates risk by following established procedures and supervising controls, spotting key errors and demonstrating strong ethical behavior
- Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques. Report project statuses and issues accurately and advance to management as needed
- Successfully manage the relationship with collaborators as well as project performance communication
- Assist with the scheduling and facilitation of meetings while taking quality meeting minutes for alignment
- Aligns risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to supervise and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent experience
- Minimum of 3-4 years of project management experience using agile & waterfall methodologies
- Formal certification in Agile project management framework is highly desirable
- Streamlined written and oral communication skills catered towards varying degree of audiences
- Ability to handle multiple projects for different lines of businesses within the organization
- Background on automation and related technologies (like BPM, RPA etc) will be a huge plus