Senior Program Manager / Business Analyst

The consultant will bring strong program management, business analysis, governance, and executive communication skills, with the ability to organize complex work and drive progress across a large, matrixed financial institution. This is a hands-on delivery role for a professional who can quickly establish credibility, bring structure to ambiguity, convert discussions into clear requirements and actions, and maintain consistent pressure on owners, decisions, risks, and milestones.

Pay range: $75-80/hr

Senior program manager with at least 10 years financial program mangement. Large scale programs.

Job Description: Who we are looking for
We are seeking a seasoned Senior Program Manager / Business Analyst to lead day-to-day execution of a highly visible, cross-functional transformation program within Markets Technology. The consultant will bring strong program management, business analysis, governance, and executive communication skills, with the ability to organize complex work and drive progress across a large, matrixed financial institution.
This is a hands-on delivery role for a professional who can quickly establish credibility, bring structure to ambiguity, convert discussions into clear requirements and actions, and maintain consistent pressure on owners, decisions, risks, and milestones.
Why this role is important to us
Our technology function, and enables the business to deliver data, services, and insights to clients. This engagement will strengthen execution of a strategic program spanning technology delivery, business process change, governance, risk management, and operational readiness.
What you will be responsible for
• Mobilize and run the program, establishing scope, outcomes, workstreams, milestones, resource needs, and acceptance criteria.
• Create and maintain the integrated program plan, roadmap, RAID register, dependency map, decision log, action tracker, and executive status reporting.
• Establish effective delivery governance, including working sessions, steering forums, decision rights, escalation paths, and evidence-based closure standards.
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to define current-state processes, future-state requirements, operating impacts, controls, and implementation priorities.
• Lead requirements workshops and convert complex discussions into clear requirements, process flows, decisions, owners, and delivery actions.
• Coordinate and drive accountability across application, infrastructure, cyber security, data, operations, risk, compliance, audit, finance, procurement, and vendor teams.
• Identify delivery risks and dependencies early, develop mitigation plans, and escalate issues with clear options and recommendations.
• Prepare concise executive presentations, decision papers, dashboards, meeting materials, and status communications.
• Manage program financials, resource forecasts, vendor activities, delivery forecasts, and change control.
• Coordinate business readiness, implementation planning, communications, training, testing, controls, and transition to sustainable operations.
• Use data, workflow tools, automation, and artificial intelligence responsibly to improve transparency, quality, and delivery speed.