3 to 5 yrs experience in program and/or project management
Schedule management acumen
Financial management acumen
Risk Management acumen
Requirements:
Combine strategic leadership, program execution, and enterprise change management
Drive alignment with enterprise priorities and manage program complexity
Ensure program alignment to regulatory requirements
Prepare dashboard reporting to identify and communicate project health
Job description
Our Client, a Commercial Banking company, is looking for a Program Manager for their Remote location.
Responsibilities:
This role combines strategic leadership, program execution, and enterprise change management, ensuring regulatory requirements are translated into scalable solutions and successfully delivered across business, technology, and risk functions.
The role serves as a central leader across cross-functional teams, driving alignment with enterprise priorities, managing program complexity, and delivering measurable business outcomes.
Ensures program alignment to regulatory requirements, e.g. Coverage/Scope (>= 1,000 small business loans in prior years, <$1MM gross annual revenue, data element capture during loan application)
Plans and coordinates closely with Business Unit/Functional managers and cross functional subject matter experts and key project team members to drive project activities and issue resolution.
Works closely with, and provides direction to business, operations and technology leads to support program needs.
Follows client methodology, risk management routines, and project governance activities (working closely with Risk Program Portfolio Lead and Lead Business partners).
Leads teams or multiple teams of internal and/or external resources across the program.
Manages project budget forecast and actuals in accordance with finance and reporting routines and methodologies.
Analyzes and collectively manages variances to the project plan and makes recommendation and/or creates action plan to mitigate negative variances or to resolve issues.
Prepares dashboard reporting to identify and communicate the health of the project for use by key executives (in alignment with existing project governance routines).
Prepares documentation/presentations to support overall workstream efforts and internal reporting routines, as needed
Proactively engages key stakeholders to plan, manage, and risk mitigate key items and critical path activities.
Proactively works to engage key stakeholders to understand and mitigate any cross team concerns/differences and leads group discussions to develop a resolution path to keep project activities on-schedule with appropriate risk mitigation.
Requirements:
3 to 5 yrs experience in program and/or project management
Schedule management acumen.
Financial management acumen.
Risk Management acumen, and
Stakeholder management skills to engage and drive cross team conversations.
Proven ability to effectively manage complex project and initiatives, including multiple business partners across different areas as well as large / complex data sets; demonstrated organization skills
Proven record of leading complex projects through areas of uncertainty and need for scope clarity.
Proven stakeholder relationship management skills to engage and drive cross team conversations at the project member and senior management stakeholder levels.
Ability to communicate project status from both a project execution-oriented update and in business progression terms.
