Key skills
LeadershipProject ManagementCommunicationTime Management
About this role
Role Overview
- Lead and manage strategic projects and workstreams with cross-functional teams, ensuring the successful execution of partnership initiatives
- Engage with stakeholders to drive, monitor, and track initiative progress against objectives and timelines
- Communicate clearly and effectively while demonstrating professionalism and building credibility as a key team member
- Assist in the development of business cases and presentation materials for senior-level stakeholder review and support
- Support the alignment of partnership priorities with ongoing business line objectives and product roadmaps
- Stands up core working team, defines roles and responsibilities
- Creates project plan and charter
- Facilitates weekly/monthly core working team meetings
- Organizes monthly Steering Committee meetings
- Reporting
- Escalates risks and tracks/mitigates risks proactively
- Monitors scope and manages change requests to prevent scope creep
- Manages overall project schedule
- Project level vendor liaison
- Ensures accountability of project team members by tracking commitments, following up on deliverables, and reinforcing ownership of assigned tasks
Requirements
- Master's degree, or equivalent work experience
- 10 or more years of experience in project management activities
- Prior knowledge of the financial services industry, specifically Fund and Investment Servicing such as Custody, Administration, etc.
- Prior experience with Cryptocurrency Custody and/or DTCC projects highly valuable
- Creative and strategic thinking
- Flexibility – able to shift priorities based on the needs of the business
- Proven ability to work with cross-functional teams to deliver on a common goal
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to develop relationships with team members and customers
- Organizational and time management skills to manage multiple priorities effectively
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Demonstrated management and leadership skills, including motivating teams and resolving conflicts constructively
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Prior experience with Microsoft products such as Excel, Word, Visio
Benefits
- Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
- Basic term and optional term life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Pregnancy disability and parental leave
- 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
- Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
- Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
- Adoption assistance
- Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law