Senior Project Manager (Regulatory AND Tax Reporting

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 • Walkthrough 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 of overall 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. Recognizes successful 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, Datawarehouse, 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 • Experience 8+ years