Associate - Global Program Management

Job Description

Ready to shape how a global financial institution runs its Finance function? This is your opportunity to lead complex, high-visibility programs from requirements through implementation, working closely with Finance, Technology, and Operations leaders. You’ll turn ambiguity into clear specifications, drive delivery end-to-end, and see your work directly improve accuracy, controls, and efficiency across the firm. If you thrive in a fast-moving, matrixed environment and enjoy solving problems that matter, we’d like to hear from you.

Job summary

As a Finance and Business Management Project Manager – Associate in Finance within the Corporate and Investment Bank, you will manage a broad portfolio of initiatives—from multi-year programs such as strategic system replacements, new product launches, and branch buildouts, to ongoing process improvements. You will define and translate Finance requirements by partnering with Finance subject matter experts to develop functional specifications and communicate needs to technology teams. You will build strong cross-functional partnerships with the core project team, regional and corporate finance, operations, technology partners, and business clients. You will lead delivery end-to-end across testing and implementation to ensure solutions are accurate and delivered on time for users.

Job responsibilities 

• Elicit, document, and translate Finance business requirements into functional specifications
• Develop and review the end-to-end operating model
• Define requirements for controlled reference data migration and the setup of legal entities and product system feeds into the target Finance environment
• Partner with the Program Test Manager to create the test strategy, plans, scripts, and data
• Ensure requirements and the operating model are fully validated through testing
• Drive resolution of issues identified during testing
• Coordinate project and migration activities with the Business Lead and Project Manager
• Support training delivery
• Identify and manage risks and maintain up-to-date documentation in the project repository
• Manage and coach junior business analysts

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills 

• Demonstrate a solid understanding of Finance functions, end-to-end processes, and how Finance requirements translate into technology and platform outcomes
• Apply working knowledge of the regional Finance operating model and key process flows, including governance and stakeholder touchpoints
• Bring practical project lifecycle experience, including planning, governance, controls, risk and issue management, and status reporting
• Demonstrate business analysis skills including requirements gathering, documentation, operating model and process analysis, and translating needs into clear deliverables
• Build relationships and influence effectively across Finance, Operations, and Technology within a matrixed environment
• Produce crisp written updates and executive-ready status reporting, and facilitate meetings effectively
• Identify, assess, and mitigate risks and issues with a control-minded approach to delivery
• Apply Finance and accounting acumen, including a controllers mindset and awareness of financial reporting impacts and controls
• Support test strategy, user acceptance testing coordination, defect triage, and cutover readiness

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills 

• Hold an accounting or project management qualification
• Demonstrate awareness of line-of-business systems, middle-office operations, and adjacent products/solutions (for example, cash management solutions) and how they feed Finance
• Apply data and systems literacy, including data flows, reference data, reconciliations, and basic SQL and Excel where relevant
• Contribute to change management activities, including training support, communications, and adoption tracking