Description:

Job Description:
  
Corporate Risk helps all businesses identify and manage risk. We focus on three key risk areas: credit risk, operational risk and market risk. We help our management and Board of Directors identify and monitor risks that may affect multiple lines of business, and take appropriate action when business activities exceed the risk tolerance of the company.

We are looking for an experienced Initiative Program Manager to help organize and coordinate our compliance technology programs. This individual will provide strategic guidance to initiative team members. They will oversee the progress of the multiple initiatives within their programs.

The ideal candidate will be an excellent leader and will have experience in guiding team members of different disciplines and groups to produce results in a timely manner. They will also be able to develop and execute efficient strategies and tactics. Lead meetings and manage activities during the project life-cycle (initiation, planning, executing, controlling, and closing) for efforts that are long-term, across one or more lines of business, medium to high risk, complex in scope, with substantial impact to the relevant businesses.
•Ultimately responsible for day-to-day deliverables of the program initiatives participate in agile, waterfall, and iterative disciplines benefits definition management of changes, decisions, issues and risks
•Manage multiple initiatives simultaneously using strong time management and prioritization skills to formulate, organize, and monitor inter-connected initiatives
•Planning activities, including resource allocations, milestones, risk plans, and a master plan for the program
•Interact with Compliance leadership and key stakeholders to establish strategic plans and objectives for initiatives
•Ensure integrity and delivery of multiple initiatives with respect to time, budget, scope, change, risk, and resources
•Identification of business opportunities, process improvements, and risky initiatives
•Manages and/or coordinates production of periodic compliance performance reports for senior management, including trend analysis relating to the programs and recommended strategies
•Manages multiple initiative teams and may provide guidance to less experienced consultants
•Identifies training opportunities designs/coordinates the development of training materials delivers or coordinates training delivery
•Shares knowledge and learning between initiatives
•Reports status, findings, and recommendations to management
•Create and deliver presentations to management including over-arching road maps to illustrate schedules and dependencies on initiative progress, business value, goals, critical path, key issues/risks, changes and dependencies. As an Initiative Program Manager you are expected to achieve success by leading yourself, your programs, and your initiative teams. Specifically you will: ?Lead your teams with integrity and create an environment where your team members feel included, valued, and supported to do work that energizes them

•Accomplish initiative management responsibilities which include energizing talented team members, providing ongoing coaching and feedback, recognizing and developing team members, identifying and managing risks, and completing daily project management tasks
•Promotes adherence to established processes and policies (e.g. SDLC)

Required Qualifications
•6+ years of experience in compliance, operational risk management (includes audit, legal, credit risk, market risk, or the management of a process or business with accountability for compliance or operational risk), or a combination of both or 6+ years of IT systems security, business process management or financial services industry experience, of which 3+ years must include direct experience in compliance, operational risk management, or a combination of both

Desired Qualifications
•Advanced Microsoft Office skills
•Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
•Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail and accuracy
•Ability to interact with all levels of an organization
•A Master's degree or higher
•A Masters of Business Administration (MBA)
•6+ years of experience managing large scale initiatives and initiative programs
•3+ years of management experience
•Financial services industry experience
•Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
•Advanced Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access, and Project) skills
•Strong organizational, multi-tasking, and prioritizing skills
•Ability to work in a fast paced deadline driven environment
•Ability to facilitate and lead meetings to reach conclusions, identify tasks, record actions, and achieve results
•Ability to manage projects or programs following a Standard Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) approach, with scheduled release code deployments

Other Desired Qualifications
•Agile, Lean, PMP, or Six Sigma Certified
•Previous experience in supporting a governance program
•Consulting or strategic advisory background
•Excellent problem solving and influencing skills
•Strong technical and analytic skills

Candidate Must Have:

Applicant meets the basic qualifications in the job description