Project Manager

Job Title: Project Manager
Location: Tampa, FL
Work Mode: Hybrid

Global Financial Firm located in TAMPA, FL has an immediate contract opportunity for an experienced Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Work with Solution Leads to help coordinate and articulate the execution strategy, vision, and implementation approach for strategic payment control solutions.
• Collaborate with Solution Leads and partner with technology, inter/intra LoB teams, and lines of defense teams to synchronize execution, expose dependencies, evaluate execution risks, escalate issues, assess status, and bring reporting transparencies to the broader organization.
• Drive best practice execution and promote standardization and consistency for the payment control solutions with Solution Leads.
• Bring awareness, ideate improvements and solutions, and coordinate relationships to related programs, as necessary.
• Ensure all process and technology implementations for the controls meet Operations’ outcomes:
  • Safe – Well controlled environment – Control framework, which is complete, timely, accurate, and manageable.
  • Efficient – Highly automated – Emphasis on STP; no increase in manual work; exception-based processing; Simplified and consistent end-to-end process with clear roles and responsibilities across Operations and Finance.
  • Client-centered – Evolves towards same day / real-time operations and visibility (reporting) for Treasury, Operations, and clients.
  • Functionally complete – Supports both product-level and legal-entity level views.
  • Extensible design to accommodate future change.

Qualifications:

• 12 years of experience.
• Leadership & Effective communication.
• Strong Stakeholder Management to ensure cross collaborative buy-in.
• Proficiency in negotiation to resolve conflicts, reach consensus, and manage expectations.
• Problem solving to address challenges and obstacles that arise during implementation, identifying solutions, and making informed decisions.
• Experienced leader building and fostering a collaborative team environment, promoting teamwork, trust, and mutual respect.
• Decision making - decisive & data-driven to provide clear guidance and alignment.
• Adaptability: Ability to navigate the team through ambiguity and embrace change.
• High emotional intelligence to navigate the team through a complex matrix of stakeholders.

Skills:

• Domain expertise across Operations and Technology functions.
• Large, complex implementation and transformation program expertise.
• Hands-on Data analysis experience.
• Hands-on Program Management experience.
• Hands-on Business Analysis experience.
• Some proficiency in technology architecture, workflow, and tools to ensure efficient execution.
• Change Management: Ability to plan, execute, and monitor implementation.
• Payments Expertise – strong understanding of payment flows, types, and messaging.
• Knowledge of Markets, SSO, TTS, and Lending products from transaction booking to payments.
• Strong understanding of Client Systems helpful.