PM – Strategic Projects, Securities recruitment
JP Morgan are seeking an experienced Programme Manager to provide leadership for the Strategic Initiatives Office and to manage a pool of three Project Managers, ensuring successful execution of a critical body of strategic initiatives across the securities business.
The role is based in London and will report into New York.
Role Description
The successful applicant will work with technology, operations, legal, finance, and front-office groups to:
- Create and publish process flows, roadmaps and regular timelines for program status reporting to internal parties and stakeholders
- Produce and maintain a central program plan across multiple streams
- Financial tracking and reporting on combined technology and operations budget versus spend versus forecast
- Produce summary presentations and overview materials for program stakeholders
- Log, track, and report program-level risks, issues and dependencies
- Maintain the program documentation library
- Ensure compliance with established program management standards and audit requirements
Additional responsibilities may include ownership of some program deliverables and projects, supporting implementation activities and building out program management best practice globally
Skills and Qualifications
- Practical experience of project management discipline and techniques including planning, score carding and financial and resource management in an operations or technology environment
- Very strong analytical, prioritization and organizational skills.
- Ability to work with cross-functional global teams and interact with all staff levels
- Ability to be flexible, follow tight deadlines, organize and prioritize work
- Experience of working on large scale, multi-stream programs
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Strong practical experience of Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint etc
- Strong risk and controls awareness
- Experience with Securities and operations preferred
We are looking for an individual who wants to play an integral role in the group. Someone who wants to contribute as part of the global leadership team. We would consider both established Programme Managers as well as senior Project Managers keen to take on additional responsibility.
This role is initially a four-month contract. If you feel you have the requisite expertise and are available to start ASAP, please apply in confidence.