Job Description

Direct Responsibilities

. Ensures end-to-end responsibility for achieving the program / project objectives in accordance with commitments made by the business line.

. Facilitate committees and work closely with the project team to deliver the project deliverables, prioritization, estimations, and planning.

. Prepares,consolidates, and validates estimates and schedules throughout the project.

. Maintain project cost without any major drift in overall project costing till end of project. Challenge user needs and provide best optimum solution within budget and capacity.

. Planning of resourcing and capacity based on project needs.

. Creates partnership with product owners, stakeholders, and transversal teams (security,solution architects, compliance)

. Assist the project team in gathering the high-level business requirements from the end users and manage GFS

. Walk through of the GFS to BAs who will translate it into DFS.

. Perform analysis with squad BA and with other applications squads/teams when involved in multi-systems features and interfaces.

. Work with the BA and testing team to review SIT strategy, test cases and results to ensure quality of delivery.

. Support UAT with users and BAs (reproduce issues, monitoring, fixing with the team).

. Vendor management along with tracking maintenance costs, budgets, and offers.

. Ensure coherent of the tasks and commitment based on release and functionality ofoverall product.

. Understand the impediments/blockers faced by the team and help the team to remove as much as possible.

. Recognizes typical as well as complex and unusual issues, and actions needed to advance the decision-making process. Recommends possible solutions.

. Assists stakeholders in diagnosing problems and recognizing issues. Takes time to help them identify critical connections, consequences, and alternatives. Recognize ssuccessful adaptations.

. Contributes& ensures compliance to WMIS governance, Secure Agile or SDLC frameworks.

. Provide regular update/ reporting to his/her Division Manager/Domain Heads

. Manage the release planning and management of the deliveries and update necessary tools required. Ensure transparency and adapts plans when changes occur. Prioritizes tasks based on importance.

. Manage Global Program / Project Steering committee with senior management.

. Able to multi-task and work on multiple projects if required.

Mandatory (Functional Skills)

. Good to have knowledge on Regulatory AND Tax Reporting with experience on any of the given topics: Tax Regulatory,Performance topics, German Tax reporting, Client Tax Statement Reporting,AEOI/CRS, FATCA, IRS871m

. Good to have knowledge of Transactions (Corporate Actions, Securities in particular)

. Good to have knowledge on Market data providers (i.e., SIX, WmDaten and similar providers)

. Good to have knowledge on Reporting systems (i.e., SECTRAS, EasyTax, FiTax or similar applications)

. Basic Knowledge on Standard Core Banking systems (i.e., Olympic, TRANSACT, Corporate Actions Systems)

. Basic Knowledge on Front Office applications (i.e., AAA ordering Tools, Client Management Tools)

. Excellent communication skills, able to spearhead Steering Committees and engage with end users and stakeholders at various levels.

. Excellent knowledge on project planning, budgeting/estimations and conducting negotiations / arbitrations.

. Good understanding of project lifecycle and experience in functional and technical specification

. Highly analytical, able to investigate, troubleshoot and determine issues at root cause.

. Adaptability& Flexibility to work on multiple tasks.

. Ability to collaborate / teamwork.

. Analytical ability

Good To Have

. IT experience: general knowledge (SQL, PL/SQL, IT Architecture principles, IT security concepts)

. Organization and management of tests (SIT / Non-regression, UAT)

. Methodology(Agile, Scrum, Waterfall etc.)

. JIRA,Confluence, Release Management Tools, Skype, Microsoft Teams, Clarity

. Exposure to applications revolving around: AAA, Olympic, TRANSACT, Client Management Systems, Data warehouse, Batch processing of reports

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

The candidate should demonstrate a combination of technical and functional skills together with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. He/she must have a genuine willingness to work in a role where the operation of availability & time-critical systems is routine.

Specific Qualifications (if required)

- CSM / PMP Certification