Executive Director, Head of Program and Portfolio Management

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC?

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

Finance is one organization composed of ten functions forming the financial backbone of DTCC, leaders who stand at the forefront of DTCC’s competitive endeavors across the globe. From accountants and financial analysts to internal consultants and workplace designers, the CFO Organization employs diverse individuals who work together to help make DTCC a global leader in the financial services industry.
 

Pay and Benefits:

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive

• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location

• Pension / Retirement benefits

• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).

The Impact you will have in this role:

DTCC’s Enterprise Transformation drives effective execution of the firm’s most strategic enterprise-wide imperatives. In partnership with Product, Technology, and other internal functions, this team is core to value realization of the firm’s investment portfolio. The Head of Enterprise Transformation Operations will lead a team of portfolio management and program / project management professionals to provide end-to-end investment and execution governance to ensure effective governance, risk management and value realization of a <$500M investment portfolio. 

Your Primary Responsibilities:

Portfolio Management and Governance

• Instrumental in the development of adaptive, integrated strategic plans that align with corporate objectives. 
• Partner across Enterprise Transformation and the Business to define, measure, manage, and cascade strategic objectives and OKRs.
• Own enterprise-wide processes to review and assess strategic initiatives and financial performance to proactively enable adjustments to execution plans.
• Lead the end-to-end intake, prioritization, and approval of investment management governance in close collaboration with risk, finance, and business and technology functions.

Drive measurement of value realization throughout the program / initiative lifecycle, with focus on change requests and timely interventions required to manage budget thresholds.

Monitor and improve continuously to cascade lessons learned and optimize value delivery.

Program Management and COE 

• Manage and monitor the integrated plan and dependencies to accurately track progress holistically across the firm’s most strategic programs and initiatives. 

• Refine, implement and execute quality management processes to ensure program health and adoption of prescribed standards, controls, and risk management practices.

• Drive enterprise-wide program governance forums to address cross-program / initiative dependency management, proactive risk/issue remediation and cross-functional collaboration.

• Lead a Center of Excellence to centralize Project Management standards and methodology, knowledge management and ownership of portfolio and project management tools.

• Own management of enterprise program management policies and procedures driving alignment across the enterprise.

 Business Change Management

• Lead a dedicated team focused on understanding and calculating change saturation to inform sequencing and drive adoption of new business processes.

• Anticipate organizational changes that come with large-scale implementations and in partnership with Organizational Change Management, create an integrated change management strategy and roadmap based on the needs of the programs, executing the change management activities sequentially.

• Influence a broad spect