Senior Project Manager (Finance)
Join Mizuho as a Senior Project Manager!
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Project Manager to join our dynamic Risk technology PMO team. As a Senior Project Manager, you will play a crucial role in managing Front Office, Risk and Regulatory programs.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage multiple Major Projects in IT Front Office Risk Technology
- Manage planning, tracking open issues, documentation, and status updates for the ongoing projects.
- Ensure projects are delivered on time and track budget spent and communicate any delays to stakeholders.
- Provide estimates for new initiatives, manage project scope and timelines.
- Collaborate with other project managers to ensure that any dependencies are tracked and any blockers are resolved.
- Ensure that business requirements are translated into detailed functional and technical specifications.
- Act as a bridge between technical and non-technical teams, ensuring clear communication and understanding of project progress, design decisions, and Agile practices
- Work closely with Technology Leads and development teams to design solutions that meet business needs
- Track Development tasks and ensure product is thoroughly tested prior to Go-Live.
- For Agile Projects, serve as the Scrum Master for one or more agile teams, ensuring agile practices are followed and understood.
- Coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings and daily stand-ups.
- Work with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests
- Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles
- Generate and publish monthly reports for Senior Management
- Ensure weekly status reports are published to all stakeholders
Qualifications:
- 12+ years of experience as a Sr. PM in IT with more than 8 years in Financial Institutions
- Highly Preferred: Hands on Knowledge of concepts and processes of Market Risk
- Experience in Credit Risk or Liquidity Risk domains will also be acceptable.
- Strong Knowledge of Financial Instruments, Derivatives
- Hands on experience with data analysis
- Expert in managing JIRA boards, JIRA Dashboards, Confluence pages, Excel reporting, and creating and tracking KPIs
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
The expected base salary ranges from $105k-$180k. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including relevant skills, training, experience, education, and, where applicable, certifications and licenses obtained. Market and organizational factors are also considered. In addition to salary and a generous employee benefits package, successful candidates are eligible to receive a discretionary bonus.
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