Program Manager with Investment Banking

Celerity is a Mid-Atlantic based consulting firm with a fast growing list of Financial Services and Fortune 500 clients. We started our business in 2002 and now have over 350 consultants. Our headquarters office is located in McLean VA and we have offices in New York, Boston and Pennsylvania.

We provide our internal employees and consultants the best of both worlds- the camaraderie of a growing organization and the stability of a client base of well established, national organizations.

We offer hourly and full time salaried positions with a strong benefits package which includes training and career development. Compensation packages are base salary plus bonus based on productivity.

Our client, a major Investment Bank located in midtown NYC, needs a Senior Program Manager to support the Program Management Office, within its project planning capacity of a global, large scale, multi-phase and multi-year program driven by the CFO to define and implement a new strategy for Finance Systems across all areas of the firm.

 

Responsibilities:

 

· Defining and maintaining with best practice business processes

· Project planning & integration

· Dependency collection & management

· Quality management

· Governance

· Create and manage Project plans, including multi plan integration and consolidation - this is a key responsibility of the role***

· Applying Project Management Methodologies to develop appropriate solutions and standardize across Program

· Manage cross workstream to ensure that team level leaders are adhering to program management methodologies

· Working with other departments such as Product Control, IT and P&A to facilitate change and to enhance the success of the Program

· Creating executive level presentations both aesthetically pleasing and strategically designed

· Liaison with team to assist with above responsibilities

 

Experience and Skills Required:

· Minimum five to seven years Project Manager Experience on large global multi-project financial programs. Person should have played past roles as described in the Job Description

· Real Program Management delivery experience. Not just theoretical or only PMO based.

· Experience in an Investment Bank

· Experience with dependency collection and management

· Ability to learn and understand the content

· Ability to multi-task in a fast pace environment

· Ability to manage people - strong persuasion skills

· Strong ability to facilitate

· Strong presentation skills including creating well executed executive management materials

· Power user in the following Microsoft applications: Project, PowerPoint, Excel & Word.

· Has managed multi-disciplinary teams

· Knowledge of formal project management methods.

· Strong interpersonal & leadership skills with heavy experience in dealing with senior management

· Strong communications skills at all levels

 

Personality Skills:

 

· Well polished- can easily present out to senior level

· Very detailed focused - 'Type A' personality

· Adaptive. Must be able to work/lead differing personality traits to get a quality end product

· Confident. Must be able to execute in QA role in a partnering, yet firm way

· Proactive. Continuously looking for process improvement/enhancements

 

Desired Skills:

· Ideally, has spent time with a "big four" leading consulting firm within financial services

· Has an appreciation for business and technical architecture

· Graduate from top university with good honors degree