Project Manager

Job Description:
Bank of America is looking for a Project Manager who has prior experience in Market Risk or Global Markets middle/back office technology. This is a multi-disciplinary role that will require the successful candidate to take on numerous diverse responsibilities and will necessitate close partnership with senior business and technology managers. Ideally, the candidate will have a background in development or have worked very closely with development teams.
This individual will work with business users and technology groups to:

• Work with stakeholders to ensure comprehensive requirements are provided to define project scope and goals.
• Work with dev team to define milestones and create detail project plan.
• Work with technology teams to define and document the implementation approach ensuring it meets user requirements
• Manage the project plan, drive project completion, facilitating issues, maintaining control over scope and ensuring that project artifacts are maintained
• Identify risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies (RAID) and proactively manage/reporting RAIDs.
• Work with QA teams to ensure that comprehensive test cases are executed and coordinate testing cycles and runs
• Responsibilities also includes planning, coordination and execution of tollgates across a large & complex program to ensure comply with enterprise change control process.
• Responsible for weekly status reporting, prepare materials to present to stakeholders

Required Skills and Experience we are Looking For:

• Strong financial markets product knowledge, counterparty credit risk portfolios, measurement of counterparty credit risk exposures
• Understanding business requirements and delve into the detail to help translate them to the developers
• Experience in delivering regulatory projects will be very advantageous
• Minimum 5 years Project Management experience
• A flexible, hardworking and "can do" attitude; comfortable working in a fast paced environment with frequent release cycles and rapidly changing priorities.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to effectively communicate within a multi-disciplined team, across multiple locations and time zones, and to interact with demanding business users.
• Strong ownership and follow through.
• Strong project management and organization skills, attention to details.
• Ability to remove obstacles and influence others to move projects forward.
• Excellent technical skills; SQL, MS Excel, jira, MS Project, sharepoint, Visio, MS Powerpoint, MS Word.

Desired Skills and Experience we are Looking For:

• Business Analysis and Data Analysis skills
• Computer Engineering/Financial Degree
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Experience with VaR, Risk Analytics would be a definite advantage
• Exposure to financial / product control functions within a bank.
• Exposure to Java, or Python scripting.
• Exposure to Program Project Risk Tool (PPRT)

Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)
Hours Per Week:
40
Pay and benefits information
Jersey City pay range:
$76,500 - $139,500 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.
Discretionary incentive eligible
This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.
Benefits
This role is currently benefits eligible . We provide industry-leading benefits, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.