Axelon Services Corporation
Senior Project Manager (Spread Products)
Axelon Services CorporationCanada2 days ago
ContractProject Management, Information Technology

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.
Key Skills Required
  • 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.
Key Skills Preferred
  • 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
Education
  • Bachelor’s/University degree, Master’s degree preferred

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