Project Manager

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Global Atlantic Financial Group is a leading insurance company meeting the retirement and life insurance needs of individuals and institutions. With a strong financial foundation and risk and investment management expertise, the company delivers tailored solutions to create more secure financial futures. The company's performance has been driven by its culture and core values focused on integrity, teamwork, and the importance of building long-term client relationships. Global Atlantic is a wholly-owned subsidiary of KKR, a leading global investment firm. Through its relationship, the company leverages KKR's investment capabilities, scale and access to capital markets to enhance the value it offers clients. KKR's parent company is KKR & Co. Inc. (NYSE: KKR).

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POSITION OVERVIEW:

Global Atlantic’s Investment Operations team is looking for a Project Manager to lead complex automation projects.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Planning, leading and executing projects from start to finish ensuring completion and achieving agreed upon timeframe and budget.
• Conceptualizing immediate and long-range needs to understand and deliver on business objectives while translating those objectives into project goals.
• Negotiating project objectives and direction with the support of the project sponsors and business leads.
• Managing project risks and issues to resolution.
• Developing innovative solutions to enhance systems, products and processes.
• Advocating and creating analytical frameworks aligned with business objectives and providing thorough documentation on the lifecycle of each project.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree and three or more (3+) years of progressively responsible experience in a project management environment with exposure to planning, cost benefit analysis, financial services experience preferred.
• Knowledge of life and annuity products, distribution, and related systems functionality.
• Demonstrated ability to lead projects from inception to successful implementation in a generally accepted project methodology framework.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and remediate project risks.
• Experience working within various delivery methodologies. 
• Agile experience is required.  Lean Agile experience is a plus. 
• Exceptional negotiation, facilitation, and consensus building skills
• Ability to aggregate and organize data, analyze anomalies, and quickly resolve data integrity issues.
• Strong communication skills, work ethic and high level of personal integrity and accountability.
• Analyze project trends, identify opportunities for improvement, and provide recommendations & guidance to the Program Manager.
• Partner with stakeholders (Investment Operations Analysts and Technology) on the creation & development of Jiras. Facilitate and guide through resolution of development roadblocks.
• Experience in UAT and knowledge of the development lifecycle is a plus.

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This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship now or in the future

 

Various jurisdictions have passed pay transparency laws that require companies provide salary ranges for any positions for which they are accepting applications. Global Atlantic has offices in Atlanta, Batesville, Bermuda, Boston, Des Moines, Hartford, Indianapolis, and New York City. The base salary range posted below is inclusive of the lowest cost of living geography to the highest in which we have a Global Atlantic office. 

Global Atlantic’s base salary range is determined through an analysis of similar positions in the external labor market. Base pay is just one component of Global Atlantic’s total compensation package for employees and at times we hire outside the boundaries of the salary range. Other rewards may include annual cash bonuses, long-term incentives (equity), generous benefits (including immediate vesting on employee contributions to a 401(k), as well as a company match on your contributions), and sales incentives.  Actual compensation for all roles will be based upon geographic locat