Job Type: Contract

Job Category: IT

Job Description

Job Title: Technical PM – Investment Management Domain
Location: Midtown, NYC (3–4 days onsite)
Duration: Long-Term Contract / Full-Time (customize as needed)

Overview: We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead end-to-end delivery, governance, and reporting of multiple initiatives within the Private Alternative Investments Technology organization. This role requires strong project management expertise, industry knowledge of Investment Management and Alternative Investments, and the ability to partner with business stakeholders and cross-functional teams in a global financial institution.

Key Responsibilities

• Project Delivery & Governance
• Manage large, complex projects with cross-functional teams, ensuring on-time and within-budget delivery.
• Oversee project plans, dependencies, constraints, and resources; maintain accurate forecasts and financial tracking.
• Ensure compliance with SDLC (Agile/Waterfall) and PMO standards.
• Track risks, issues, mitigation plans, and escalate as needed to executive leadership.
• Deliver weekly status reports, dashboards, and scorecards leveraging MS Project, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Stakeholder Management
• Collaborate with business partners, technology teams, and executives to align project outcomes with business goals.
• Develop and execute communication plans, facilitate steering committee meetings, and maintain stakeholder engagement.
• Apply RACI models to ensure accountability and transparency across workstreams.
• Change & Transformation
• Lead organizational change initiatives and process improvements.
• Establish, track, and report business outcomes using OKRs and KPIs.
• Guide stakeholders through solution options, leveraging data-driven storytelling to drive decision-making.
• Documentation & Deliverables
• Prepare and maintain project documentation, deliverables, and reference materials.
• Coordinate interim and final deliverables for tollgates, securing stakeholder approvals.
• Ensure robust repository management for project artifacts.

Required Skills & Competencies

• Proven success delivering business and technology transformation projects in global financial institutions.
• Strong knowledge of Investment Management and/or Alternative Investments (clients, products, lifecycle, processes, systems).
• Excellent communication, presentation, and influencing skills with the ability to engage executive leadership.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and storytelling skills to frame solutions and gain buy-in.
• Ability to manage multiple initiatives in a fast-paced, global environment.
• Advanced expertise with MS Excel, PowerPoint, Project; experience building management dashboards and reports.

Qualifications

1.Undergraduate or graduate degree in a business and technology-relevant field.
2.8+ years of leading business and technology transformation in global financial institutions; expertise in Investment Management and/or Alternative Investments (client types, products, lifecycle, processes, systems) is preferred.
3.Experience in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) including Agile project work.
4.Demonstrates clear understanding of the drivers of performance and decision making to maximize results.
5.Strategic thinker with proven ability to operationalize the strategy and problem-solve.
6.Hands-on expertise with data dictionary, data lineage, and data governance a plus.
7.Project Management certification preferred.

Competencies:
1.Demonstrated success establishing complex solution options, communicating preferred solutions through storytelling, influencing, and negotiation with team members, stakeholders and senior management and leveraging qualitative and quantitative data points, and driving successful end to end solution delivery.
2.Strong project management skills with experience in organizing, planning, and executing large-scale business and technology transformation efforts in global financial institutions from vision to implementation.
3.Plan, conduct, and manage the analysis of complex problems. Monitors and reports trends. Requires the ability to describe complex problems and their solutions to management.
4.Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, leveraging active listening, presentation, as well as negotiation and influencing expertise
5.Highly motivated and self-directed; exhibits thought leadership and strong critical thinking skills.
6.Proven attention to detail in driving management reporting with clear and concise quantitative and qualitative data analysis and presentation.
7.Superior planning & organization skills, proactive, and team player.
8.Ability to multitask and work across various groups across all regions in a global, dynamic environment.
9.Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Project or other reporting and project management tools.

Required Skills