Change the Bank (CTB) Project/Program Manager recruitment

Position Category: Finance/Accounting

Position Title: Change the Bank (CTB) Project/Program Manager

Job Level: Vice President

Location: USA - NY - New York (One NY Plaza)

Education Required: Bachelors Degree

Position Description:
The CTB Portfolio Manager and Financial Management lead will reside in New York with wide and varying responsibilities for their Global Project Portfolio. Candidates will have a thorough understanding of project, program and portfolio management fundamentals along with knowledge of portfolio financial management and activity-based costing. The candidate will be expected to quickly develop a detailed understanding of the firm's activity based costing processes while assisting a subset of the portfolio to define, plan and execute programs and projects aligning with the Finance Divisions strategic investment priorities.

The role requires the candidate to have a strong understanding of project financial management, PMO functions/best practices, and program/project management fundamentals including the project life-cycle. The candidate needs to have a deep understanding of project financial analysis, cost attribution management and should be comfortable developing cost reporting standards such as estimation and budgeting. Effective communication skills are critical, as well as the ability to influence others outside of the direct reporting line.

The specific responsibilities of the role will be to:
- Establish cost management and benefits tracking principles for the portfolio and ensure they are being enforced
Provide a quality assurance on portfolio financials and lead continuous improvement in the reporting of CTB financials and resource utilization
Provide governance and delivery oversight for a number of projects in the portfolio
- advise/assist in business case development and review
- ensure complete and accurate information is available for these projects
- provide detailed analysis on the portfolio to enable effective decision making or escalation as required
- act a point of contact with the program leads for particular functional areas in Finance

In detail, these functions will require the following from the candidate:

Quality Assurance: The CTB Portfolio Manager will conduct project health checks to assess the ability of projects to deliver their benefits. They will challenge progress, scope, financials, resourcing and delivery plans to evidence controlled delivery. They will work closely with the Project and Program Managers providing delivery advice, making recommendations for improvement and supporting projects on the implementation of standards and best practice. In addition The CTB Portfolio Manager will help define, document and roll-out new Policies, Processes and Tools.

Project Reporting, Definition and Information Management: The CTB Portfolio Manager will be accountable for the production of timely and accurate information with analysis to facilitate Senior Management decision making. This will include supporting the production of monthly cost and status reporting, key project documentation (e.g. project initiation documents, business case, etc.), gaining a detailed understanding of the projects in their portfolio to answer ad hoc questions from senior management.

Portfolio Analysis: The CTB Portfolio Manager will quickly develop a detailed understanding their portfolio and will be expected to provide recommendations and opinions to management on improvements that can be made (e.g. in terms of scope to ensure alignment with strategy, improvements in planning to ensure projects can be executed on a timely basis).

Relationship Management: The CTB Portfolio Manager will collaborate with a variety of groups across the Firm. They will need to quickly develop credibility with their clients and maintain relationships to ensure accurate and detailed project health checks and information requests can be answered as required. They will be expected to advise and influence senior stakeholders within the Finance organization to ensure projects are executed in line with standards.

Skills Required:
Experience working with activity based costing/cost attribution management for project cost reporting.
Clear understanding of project management and business analysis approaches, including cost estimation
Strong communication and influencing skills
Exceptional written and verbal presentation skills
Strong sense of ownership and accountability for work
Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills and a creative and flexible approach to problem solving
Meticulous attention to detail
Ability to deal with ambiguity and define approaches to bring un-focused issues to resolution

Skills Desired:
Experience working in a PMO, Project Portfolio Office or Project Centre of Excellence
Experience defining and rolling out project management standards and best practices
Experience in Project Risk Management and Benefit Management