What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager - Banking/Finance or Payments Domain position at UniqueHire Consulting LLC?
Job Title : Project Manager
Location :Berkley Heights NJ
Job Type :Contract
Please don’t submit above 15 years profile
Functional Project Manager Payments will lead complex, business-side transformation initiatives for large global banks, focusing on payments and trade finance. This is a functional/delivery PM role (not pure IT PM), driving end to end project lifecycle, process improvement, and digital transformation, while managing senior stakeholders across geographies.
Skills & Profile
- Strong functional project management background in global banks.
- Deep banking domain understanding with global bank exposure (mandatory).
- Handson experience in Trade Finance and Payments (payments transformation, digital payments journeys, process change).
- Proven experience delivering transformation projects (business/functional), not just IT implementation.
Key Responsibilities
Own end to end delivery of payments and trade finance transformation projects within global banking environments.
- Plan, track, and manage project scope, timelines, budgets, risks, issues, dependencies, and benefits.
- Lead functional change initiatives (not pure tech PM), including operating model, process, and policy changes.
- Drive digital transformation projects (at least 23 large digital deliveries in banks) in payments and related domains.
- Conduct change impact assessments and ensure effective communication and stakeholder alignment.
- Work closely with senior business stakeholders across regions; manage expectations, negotiations, and escalations.
- Prepare and present project status reports, steering decks, risk/issue logs, and resourcing plans.
- Champion Agile ways of working; align teams to Agile practices and cadences.
- Ensure projects deliver tangible business outcomes rather than purely consulting artefacts.
Salary : $55