Assistant Vice President, Operations Project Consultant recruitment
Overview
Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk-management products and services. The company provides unmatched convenience in the United States, serving more than 59 million consumer and small business relationships with more than 6,100 retail banking offices, nearly 18,700 ATMs and award-winning online banking with nearly 29 million active users. Following the acquisition of Merrill Lynch on January 1, 2009, Bank of America is among the world's leading wealth management companies and is a global leader in corporate and investment banking and trading across a broad range of asset classes serving corporations, governments, institutions and individuals around the world. Bank of America offers industry-leading support to more than 4 million small business owners through a suite of innovative, easy-to-use online products and services. The company serves clients in more than 150 countries. Bank of America Corporation stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Responsibilities
- Experience within financial services industry, with knowledge of operations including debt and equity products.
- Develop business relationships to define and manage project objectives, scope, deliverables, resources and timelines.
- Manage all aspects of the Back Office and Middle Office System implementation projects including business analysis, design, development, testing, installation and delivery.
- Lead a diversified team of Bank of America Merrill Lynch staff and on/off shore resources in the execution of the project deliverables.
- Monitor and report to the management on the status of project efforts, anticipating/identifying issues that inhibit the attainment of project goals and implement corrective actions.
- Highly motivated individual prepared to work/negotiate within a matrix environment.
- Ensure high visibility to projects at both the Asia Pac GMOMO management and business level.
- Confidence to interact with and manage senior stakeholders.
Requirements
- Strong leadership skills, with minimum of 3-5 years experience in leading operations related programs and projects and delivering these within required scope, time and cost restraints.
- English business level communication skills.
- Excellent technical, written/verbal communication, interpersonal, problem solving, prioritization, presentation and facilitation skills with the ability to make recommendations to all levels of the organization.
- Self driven individual with excellent planning, organization and follow up skills.
- Able to manage geographically diverse teams made up of both employees and third party resources.
- Ability to build relationships and work with cross-functional and technology teams.
- Ability to build and maintain a high level of customer service, trust and confidence.
- Good knowledge of MS Office Products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project)
- Degree level education.
- Recognized project management/ 6 Sigma certification preferred.