IT Program Manager

$100,610 - $117,250/Yr

Genesis10 - Jersey City, NJ

Full-time - Mid Level

Jersey City, NJ

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Genesis10 is seeking an IT Program Manager for a 12+ month contract position in the financial industry. The role involves end-to-end ownership of programs, oversight of multiple projects, and proactive management of risks and issues. The IT Program Manager will be responsible for weekly status reporting and preparing materials for stakeholder presentations, ensuring effective communication across teams and locations.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for projects (i.e. end to end ownership of the program)
• Oversight of all projects within the program and responsible for recognizing when individual projects may be off track
• Identify risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies (RAID) and proactively manage/reporting RAIDs
• Review and/or publish the weekly status report for the program
• Meet with project managers to understand progress and issues across projects and provide support as necessary
• Responsible for weekly status reporting and preparing materials to present to stakeholders

Requirements

• Excellent communication skills and ability to effectively communicate within a multi-disciplined team, across multiple locations and time zones, and to interact with demanding business users
• Strong ownership and follow through
• Strong project management and organization skills, attention to details
• Familiarity with principles of scaled agile delivery, PI planning, and agile scrum methodology
• Ability to remove obstacles and influence others to move projects forward
• Strong financial markets product knowledge, market risk experience (any asset class)
• Excellent technical skills; SQL, MS Excel, jira, MS Project, sharepoint, Visio, MS Powerpoint, MS Word
• Computer Engineering/Financial Degree
• Experience with Agile methodologies
• Experience with VaR, Risk Analytics
• Exposure to financial / product control functions within a bank
• Exposure to Program Project Risk Tool (PPRT)

Benefits

• Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years
• Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average)
• Behavioral Health Platform
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)