What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Project Manager (Spread Products) position at Axelon Services Corporation?
Job Title: Senior Project Manager (Spread Products)
Location: ON, Canada
Job Requirements
- Combined PM/BA skillset
- SQL experience
- Understanding of root cause analysis
- Markets product knowledge (fixed income, debt securities, credit derivatives)
- Understanding of data governance/data management
- Presentation skills to senior leaders with PPT experience
- Provide project management support for the Markets Transformation program related to the 2020 Consent Order remediation.
- Execute Finance related workstream partnering with business and Finance SMEs.
- Prepare concise Markets activity/progress reports tailored to the audience.
- Provide check and challenge on activity/progress reports by other functions.
- Utilize best practice PM methodology to fit stakeholders' needs, including maintaining plans, risk, and issues.
- Drive project end results as a representative of Markets.
- Facilitate remediation-related engagement with the Markets product lines.
- Proactively track project progress against goals.
- Recognize when problems surface or potential problems are looming, and articulate them clearly.
- Promote partner involvement through effective communication of project status across varied stakeholders.
- Define, teach, and enforce good project management practices.
- Manage activities related to the Data Governance and Management strategy, ensuring compliance with EDO’s Data Governance Policy, Standards, and Procedures.
- Proactively monitor data quality scorecards and metrics, identifying anomalies and inconsistencies.
- Prepare reports and documentation to track data quality metrics, identify trends and issues, and communicate them to stakeholders.
- Track and monitor data quality issues, perform root cause analysis, and ensure timely remediation/escalation of issues.
- Collaborate with technology teams, data managers, and consumers to improve data quality and reduce data quality issues.
- Identify and manage data quality issues till resolution.
- Collaborate in the preparation of Data Quality Governance Forum presentations on a monthly basis.
- Manage the end-to-end Data Concerns lifecycle, including identifying and managing data quality issues till resolution.
- Work in close coordination with Technology, EDO, Data Stewards, and other stakeholders to fulfill data delivery objectives.
- Identify solutions ranging across data analytics, reporting, and trade data processing.
- Partner with senior team members and leaders to define and implement data solutions.
- Create clear and specific project plans, business, and technical requirements documents for data execution.
- Focus on data quality controls and governance, including providing data quality rules to the Eagle team and reviewing and providing signoff when DQ rules are ready to build and deploy.
- 7 Years of experience in Finance, Risk, Business, or Markets Operations related roles
- Familiarity with Markets Fixed Income Products such as Debt Securities, liquidity, CCAR/DFAST, FR Y, RWA reporting, and Resolution planning.
- Experience with Capital Markets products and how they are represented in trade capture and ledger systems.
- Strong and concise communication skills, both orally and in writing.
- Extremely detail-oriented and ability to investigate deeply into content and look across the portfolio.
- Strong interpersonal skills with evidence of working in collaboration across large organizations.
- Proactively seek and develop resolutions to data issues.
- Experience managing inter-department dependencies.
- Ability to plan and organize, working well both in a team setting and independently.
- Strong leadership skills with a proven track record in driving positive and sustained change.
- Demonstrated ability to think critically, strategically, and analytically and to creatively problem solve.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite: Word, Excel, PPT, MS Project.
- Solid understanding of data governance and quality principles and standards.
- Understanding of issue root cause analysis of data quality issues.
- Proficient in using SQL, Excel, Tableau, and other BI tools.
- Strong analytical skills to break down complex data sets into simple parts and create visualizations.
- Ability to multi-task and manage deadlines effectively.
- Comfortable with performing data investigations requiring high accuracy with tight timescales.
- Ability to create business analysis, troubleshoot data quality issues, and conduct exploratory and descriptive analysis of business datasets.
- Data Lineage and Architecture experience
- Experience on regulatory programs
- Markets knowledge (e.g., risk and controls, trade lifecycle, products, etc.)
- Knowledge of Compliance functions (e.g., AML, KYC, etc.)
- Big 4 experience preferred
- Bachelor’s/University degree, Master’s degree preferred