Programme Manager – Derivatives
“Alexander Ash is acting as an agency for the purpose of this advert. Please also view our website for other similar opportunities;http://www.alexanderash.com/banking-jobs.php”
For this Top Tier Investment Bank we are looking for a Programme Manager with substantial Derivatives product knowledge. This new role is to define and lead a multi-year strategic derivatives settlements programme, managing a team of project managers and business analysts to deliver against this transformation strategy. This role will have a global focus, partnering with IT, Finance and Operations across Europe, the Americas and Asia.
Primary responsibilities will include:
- Define a multi-year strategy to move all derivatives settlement processing onto bank's in-house strategic settlements platform, migrate all existing positions and decommission legacy systems and processes.
- Work with senior stakeholders globally to ensure that target-state business processes are consistent globally wherever possible, but mandated regional variations are taken into account.
- Structure business cases, plans, resourcing requirements and financial tracking as well as implementing governance model with global stakeholders and senior management to track and publish progress.
- Lead and develop the careers of DPG team members formally reporting into this role. Manage and influence indirect team members in IT, Operations and other project groups.
- Actively contribute to the extended global DPG leadership team and more broadly across Derivative Operations.
The successful candidate will have experience in managing large scale projects with practical knowledge of defining business cases, gathering requirements, resource planning, implementation and milestone tracking, test planning and other project management skill sets. A proven track record of managing global teams is preferred.
- Educated to degree level (or equivalent)
- Good understanding of derivatives products (Credit, Rates, Equity)
- Knowledge of the core operational processing for derivatives; ideally settlements
- Strong, proven project/programme management. Will have managed project budgets $5mm
- Experience of defining strategies, starting projects and managing senior stakeholders at ED and MD level
- Strong delivery record coupled to good problem solving skills and analytical mindset
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.