VP - Cross Asset Markets / Regulatory Program Manager - London

This role will be accountable for the following responsibilities:

• Define project scope and objectives, gather, analyze, validate and manage project requirements
• Drive the creation of clear requirements documents using a structured analysis methodology
• Liaise with relevant project stakeholders within the technology and business teams across ICG
• Support the technical leads in the planning, tracking and executions of the Regulatory deliverables and commitments
• Manage and report on the project progress using the standard templates and tools available
• Establish and maintain best practices and Citi approved PPM procedures across all projects
• Enforce a culture of SDLC best practices across the technology group
• Foster an environment that encourages partnering, teamwork and communications across O&T and business partners
• Excellent oral and written communication skills necessary to effectively communicate issues, risks and progress on complex processes to multiple stakeholders
• Self-initiate, work productively when unsupervised and multitask across multiple concurrent projects
• Has the confidence and ability to convincingly structure, summaries, defend and present recommendations to stakeholders at all levels
  
  Seeking a seasoned professional with a proven track record of Program/Portfolio Management within the Capital Markets Technology, Banking or Consultancy industry. In this fast paced environment, you must be able to prioritize tasks, work within deadlines, taking a pragmatic and considered approach, paying close attention to details, you will need to employ strong oral and written communication skills. Coaching, mentoring and leading the project teams to deliver on tight deadlines. Documentation preparation & review, strong knowledge of SDLC methodologies (Waterfall/Traditional, Agile & Hybrid) required., Experience in project planning, tracking, delivery and reporting
• Operations and/or IT experience, Financial markets product knowledge (Rates/FX/ETD/GSP/Commodities/Equities) including knowledge of front-to-back trade flows processing and a broad range of investment banking products and trade lifecycles
• Experience of working as BA / PM in Front Office Function or Operations is preferred, Experience in delivering cross asset Regulatory transformation / change and software development (SDLC) projects in Front Office and Data Services
• Experience of working with analytics platforms and technologies (Big Data, Hadoop, AWS) preferred
• Expert level experience with SDLC processes -Agile/Waterfall methodology
• Expert level experience with managing large projects, tasks, workflow and reporting in Jira
• Comfortable in using PPM tools such as Planview, Clarity etc.
• Strong analytical skills and some experience in working with large project management data sets to uncover insights is preferred
• Strong listening, presentation, communication, and influencing skills. Articulates with confidence to senior management
• Highly adept and dynamic leader with the ability to provide structure, governance and bring energy and enthusiasm to the team
• Strong team building and management skills
• Strong attention to detail in supporting management reporting with clear and concise data analysis and presentation
• Highly motivated and self-directed; exhibits thought leadership and strong critical thinking skills
• Strong EXCEL, PowerPoint and Project skills, Educated to bachelor's degree level or equivalent
• PMP or similar project management certification preferred