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Position- Project Manager OTC Derivatives

Location- Chicago, IL

Duration- 6-18 Months Contract

Phone Hire

Rate- $70-$75/hr on c2c

Job Description

Our client is an international financial services company headquartered in Chicago, IL, USA.  It provides investment management, fund and asset administration, fiduciary and banking services through a network of 85 offices in 18 US States and 12 international offices in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region.  With over $95 billion in banking assets and nearly $5 trillion in assets under custody, it is one of the most admired companies in the world.

Top 3 skills:
• Enterprise Project Management (managing multiple projects at once)
• Financial Services experience; working in Derivatives (more specifically OTC)
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Job description:
• Derivatives experience (i.e., OTC and Collateral Management preferred)
• Solid understanding of Financial Services
• Financial Services working experience (worked at a bank or trading firm)
• Deliver required project artifacts supporting scope & requirements management, schedule development, project planning, budget management, stakeholder management and quality assurance
• Develop plans in MS Project, identifying key milestones, target dates for each task and dependencies
• Track issues and risk for each project. Proactively track to milestones and target dates.
• Monitor spend-to-forecast to approved budget and report variance through the project governance structure. Escalate appropriately when budget becomes a constraint. Manage project tasks and project members within GTT
• Maintain project communication and status reporting internally and externally (if necessary) and ensure that management is aware of status and all issues and risks
• Communicate progress towards achieving project goals on a regular basis
• Escalate issues appropriately by understanding the most effective path towards resolution; resolve issues and risks where appropriate; drive issues to resolution
• Plan for and manage aspects of project quality
• Understand anticipated benefits of solutions and ensure re-measured and reported as scope changes
• Utilize change control process for all project combined with a communication plan
• Maintain SharePoint/ Epic status updated succinctly explaining project status; all fields are completed with correct BRAGG status and reporting is completed by deadline

Additional Skills: MS Project, MS Office, Visio