Project Manager II

Work Location:

New York, New York, United States of America

Hours:

40

Line of Business:

TD Securities

Pay Detail:

$140,000 - $190,000 USD

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Job Description:

We are looking for a Project Manager II to join our growing team in New York City.

In this role, the Project Manager is aligned with the TDS Delivery Accountability Framework rolled out across TDS and will support the end-to-end delivery of the project's deliverables involving high complexity and many cross-functional and stakeholder dependencies. This function enables efficient and effective program delivery of the dealer's major, cross functional initiatives. TDS Change Delivery reflects a significant evolution of our approach to managing and delivering change in the dealer's largest cross functional initiatives.

The Project Manager has responsibilities including but not limited to: providing support to the Project Delivery Leads with responsibilities including but not limited to: decision cycle control, data gathering and analysis, data quality control, integrated status reporting and presentation. The Project Manager is also responsible for preparing project statuses, project schedules, issues, risks, decisions, along with any project changes and financials. Lastly. the Project Manager will also assist in the presentation to leadership team.

Depth & Scope:

• Supports the end-to-end delivery of the project's deliverables involving high complexity and many cross-functional and stakeholder dependencies
• Supports the Change Delivery Leadership/Management in managing a diverse range of stakeholders to meet program requirements and project objectives. Major stakeholders include:
• Trading Business Management (TBM), Market Risk and Model Development (PnL, Risk, VaR), Market Risk Control, Operations/Data Services, Finance, Front Office, Technology and Compliance.
• Provides leadership to technology and business partners to turn requirements into delivery with analyses and recommendations for solutions that meet business objectives with in a timely and cost-effective manner
• Provides timely updates on project status, analyses and findings to senior management and various stakeholders
• Conducts ongoing oversight and review to ensure effective implementation of Change Delivery initiatives through requirement building and stream planning
• Provides support to management by leading stakeholder management activities and communication through stream deliverables
• Understands and manages cross-stream interdependencies
• Assists the PDL with tracking project tasks, dependencies, and requirement gaps (ensuring traction and resolution on all items)
• Identifies and escalates issues to the appropriate individual(s)/group(s) to ensure prompt attention/resolution
• Ensures all infrastructure build activities are supported by adequate documentation
• Provides coaching and direction to junior members of the team

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in any field of study required
• 7+ years of prior experience in organizational change management activities
• In-depth understanding and subject matter expertise in self clearing, with experience in Futures preferred
• Prior experience with delivering technology for clearing (self or client) is considered an asset
• Superior understanding of the end-to-end clearing workflow, with in-depth knowledge of the operational aspects
• Superior organizational skills (must be able to identify and track project dependencies & blockers, ensure proper resolution of outstanding items, document meeting minutes and takeaways in a clear and concise manner)
• Established rapport with various stakeholders throughout the bank
• Advanced Excel data manipulation skills (ability to derive findings/conclusions from large datasets and trouble-shoot errors)
• Ability to work on multiple concurrent tasks and manage time effectively
• Flexibility to be able t