Principal Consultant - Murex Project Manager

$141,000 - $185,000/Yr

Capco - New York, NY

Full-time - Senior

New York, NY

Chemical Manufacturing

About the position

As a Principal Consultant at Capco, you will play a key role in delivering projects and developing new business opportunities within the Capital Markets sector. This position involves working directly with clients to implement change initiatives, manage program scope, and ensure effective communication across various stakeholders. You will leverage your extensive experience in management consulting to drive project success and contribute to the growth of the firm.

Responsibilities

• Maintain program scope, governance, and communication plan.
• Create project meeting materials and meeting output as per the communication plan.
• Manage and track integrated Murex and Company end-to-end program plans for Day 2 functional deliveries and enhancements.
• Coordinate Murex and Company dependencies and logistics to support program activities.
• Manage overall testing activities for major releases requiring Murex binary updates.
• Administer and own program open items, issues and risk log.
• Drive program level risks and issues to resolution.
• Support and monitor progress of test planning and execution for all test phases.
• Manage Murex and Company defect management process utilizing Company JIRA tool and Murex PEGA tool.
• Develop key metrics to report test status including progress, open defects, issues/risks impacting testing stream.

Requirements

• 8+ years of Management Consulting experience in Capital Markets and Securities related businesses.
• Proven track record in project-oriented Change Management and Business Development.
• Analytical ability to evaluate the root causes of problems and understand complex workflows.
• Experience in conducting project migrations/conversions is required.
• Ability to understand institutional Broker-Dealer businesses, control infrastructure and technology impacts.
• Solid stakeholder management, including advising and influencing clients.
• Exposure to different methodologies and approaches (e.g., PMP, Prince 2, Agile, Waterfall).
• Proven team leadership experience, people and team development.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to varying levels of client stakeholders.
• Exceptional presentation skills, including the use of MS PowerPoint.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with cloud architecture.
• Familiarity with Pegasystems.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Tuition reimbursement