Program Manager - Capital Markets, Technology & Applications
About the role
Location: Toronto
Contract Duration: 12 months
Daily Responsibilities:
• Deliver a regulatory program within the constraints of scope, quality, time, and budget and under circumstances involving multiple moderate-probability, moderate-impact risk factors.
• Program-level strategic and workstream level planning, interaction with executive level management, complex issue resolution, excellent communications and team building skills.
• Manage groups of internal employees and contractors allocated to the program to deliver multiple technology capabilities that together satisfy a regulatory commitment.
• Oversight of project scope definition and management, requirements gathering and documentation, time estimating, project schedule development and tracking, project budget management, project status reporting, issue and risk management, contingency planning, and communications across multiple organizational levels.
• Coordination across various workstreams and project teams
• Ensuring auditability and appropriate artifacts are in place to demonstrate the regulatory compliance.
Must have skills:
• 10+ years of experience as Program/Project manager
• 5+ years of experience with Treasury, Equity Derivatives, and Prime Brokerage businesses.
• 10+ years of experience delivering technology and business application solutions in a large-scale, multi-platform systems environment in capital markets divisions of large banks
• Experience with software development lifecycle.
• 5+ years of recent experience with MS Project
• 5+ years of recent experience Jira or Confluence.
Nice to have skills
• Recent experience delivering programs involving front office equity order management, trade execution, and position keeping systems is highly preferred.
• Previous experience with regulatory and compliance in Capital markets space.
Soft Skills Required:
• Proactive and a self-starter
• Ability to work as part of a team, as well as work independently or with minimal direction.
• Excellent written, presentation, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to handle different user groups
• Crafting and messaging skills for executives and senior stakeholders.
Education:
• Bachelor's degree in related field required.
• PMP Certification is nice to have
About Finance Professionals Inc.
WHO WE ARE
We are a specialist FinTech and Financial Services recruitment consultancy. We have been helping clients attract, hire and retain staff across all areas from technology to finance. By being specialists in our sectors, we are able to use our deep and active network of professionals to quickly match the best people with great permanent and contract job opportunities.
WHAT WE DO:
We deliberately work on a small number of assignments allowing us the time to deeply search for talent for your business. By partnering with an excellent client base including Banks, Financial Services Firms, FinTech companies at various stages and established multinationals, we are able to present compelling career opportunities to industry professionals.
SECTORS WE WORK IN: -FinTech -Infrastructure -Financial Systems -Banking & Securities -Wealth Management & Advisory -Fund Management -Fund Services -Payment Services -Financial Services -Insurance -Real Estate Investment Trusts -Real Estate Development -Construction Finance and Private Equity
SKILLS WE PLACE: -Accounting & Finance -Banking Operations & Middle Office -Risk & Compliance -Fund Accounting -PMO -Business Analysts -IT Manager -Cloud Professionals -DBA -Data Specialists -Design -QA & Testing -Developers
Program Manager - Capital Markets, Technology & Applications
About the role
Location: Toronto
Contract Duration: 12 months
Daily Responsibilities:
• Deliver a regulatory program within the constraints of scope, quality, time, and budget and under circumstances involving multiple moderate-probability, moderate-impact risk factors.
• Program-level strategic and workstream level planning, interaction with executive level management, complex issue resolution, excellent communications and team building skills.
• Manage groups of internal employees and contractors allocated to the program to deliver multiple technology capabilities that together satisfy a regulatory commitment.
• Oversight of project scope definition and management, requirements gathering and documentation, time estimating, project schedule development and tracking, project budget management, project status reporting, issue and risk management, contingency planning, and communications across multiple organizational levels.
• Coordination across various workstreams and project teams
• Ensuring auditability and appropriate artifacts are in place to demonstrate the regulatory compliance.
Must have skills:
• 10+ years of experience as Program/Project manager
• 5+ years of experience with Treasury, Equity Derivatives, and Prime Brokerage businesses.
• 10+ years of experience delivering technology and business application solutions in a large-scale, multi-platform systems environment in capital markets divisions of large banks
• Experience with software development lifecycle.
• 5+ years of recent experience with MS Project
• 5+ years of recent experience Jira or Confluence.
Nice to have skills
• Recent experience delivering programs involving front office equity order management, trade execution, and position keeping systems is highly preferred.
• Previous experience with regulatory and compliance in Capital markets space.
Soft Skills Required:
• Proactive and a self-starter
• Ability to work as part of a team, as well as work independently or with minimal direction.
• Excellent written, presentation, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to handle different user groups
• Crafting and messaging skills for executives and senior stakeholders.
Education:
• Bachelor's degree in related field required.
• PMP Certification is nice to have
About Finance Professionals Inc.
WHO WE ARE
We are a specialist FinTech and Financial Services recruitment consultancy. We have been helping clients attract, hire and retain staff across all areas from technology to finance. By being specialists in our sectors, we are able to use our deep and active network of professionals to quickly match the best people with great permanent and contract job opportunities.
WHAT WE DO:
We deliberately work on a small number of assignments allowing us the time to deeply search for talent for your business. By partnering with an excellent client base including Banks, Financial Services Firms, FinTech companies at various stages and established multinationals, we are able to present compelling career opportunities to industry professionals.
SECTORS WE WORK IN: -FinTech -Infrastructure -Financial Systems -Banking & Securities -Wealth Management & Advisory -Fund Management -Fund Services -Payment Services -Financial Services -Insurance -Real Estate Investment Trusts -Real Estate Development -Construction Finance and Private Equity
SKILLS WE PLACE: -Accounting & Finance -Banking Operations & Middle Office -Risk & Compliance -Fund Accounting -PMO -Business Analysts -IT Manager -Cloud Professionals -DBA -Data Specialists -Design -QA & Testing -Developers