Senior Project Manager - Portfolio Risk (S&P Capital IQ)

• Company

  McGraw Hill Financial

• Location

  Canada-ON-Toronto

• Remuneration

  Base plus Bonus

• Position Type

  Permanent

• Employment type

  Full time

• Updated

  16-Oct-2013

• eFC Ref no

  1293400

Associate Director, Project Management - Portfolio Risk

Job Description

Associate Director, Project Management - Portfolio Risk  

Standard & Poor's is seeking a Project Management Associate Director to be responsible for the initiation, planning, execution, control and closure of financial product implementation projects working closely to coordinate activities of Clients, Development Team, Financial Engineers and Production Support Groups. This position is critical to transparent reporting of schedule, cost, scope, and business value status reporting to Clients and Executive Management. This role will have to manage multiple smaller implementation projects simultaneously (4-6 weeks, 4-5 team members).
 Responsibilities:

• Actively manage projects and report status utilizing standard tools including project milestones, project plans, project-based cost accounting, and reports
• Identify and manage/mitigate project risk and issues
• Manage the project Change Control process
• Initiate projects to include creation of project proposals, detailed estimates, demonstrated ability to work closely with IT process (Agile) and complex derivative product financial engineering
• Manages smallmatrix team
• Utilize PMO tools, processes and methodologies, such as SharePoint (PINE), HP PPM
• Produce supporting artifacts (e.g. project plan, implementation plan, test plan)
• Support SOW and Invoice processing
• Develop expertise in client needs and outcomes; develop partnerships beyond the project team to include client stakeholders.
• Share and leverage project expertise with other PMO staff; act as mentor to junior staff

 Qualifications:

• BA / BS degree in a related area such as finance, economics, information technology, or business; MBA preferred
• Certified PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) preferred
• Requires 5-10 years of professional experience in project management, ideally within the financial market sector (client or vendor side)
• Strong familiarity with technical financial engineering concepts and tools,
• Demonstrated ability to deliver multiple projects simultaneously that meet the business objectives within scope and schedule
• Ability to work under pressure with tight deadlines and limited resources
• Creative, results driven, self-motivated, and solutions oriented to execute projects
• Demonstrated ability to solve problems in a technical environment
• Strong, demonstrated interest in project management processes and tools
• Demonstrated skills in tailoring presentations/communications to varied audiences (i.e. business vs. technical and working group vs. executive management)
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, organizational, leadership, and time management skills
• Ability to work with team members and stakeholders at all levels, technical and non-technical, in a positive and team-affirming manner
• Attentive to detail and quality oriented; ability to execute in a timely and accurate manner
• Must be able to work in global, multi-cultural environment

 About S&P Capital IQ and McGraw Hill Financial

Be part of the team that provides smart investors with even smarter data at S&P Capital IQ.

A career at S&P Capital IQ puts you in a position to be indispensable to institutional investors, investment advisors and wealth managers around the world.

• S&P Capital IQ delivers in-depth intelligence across asset classes and capital structures, bringing together key capabilities in research, strategy, evaluation, analysis, data solutions and risk mitigation under one roof.
• Every day, more than 4,200 financial firms turn to us for real-time research, data and analytics on more than 92,000 companies.
• Your innovative thinking will thrive in an agile, energetic and challenging work environment – get a high-tech start-up atmosphere backed by the stability of McGraw Hill Financial.

McGraw Hill Financial includes Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, S&P Capital IQ, S&P Dow Jones Indices, J.D. Power, Platts, and McGraw Hill Construction. Together, we're the foremost providers of essential intelligence for the capital and commodities markets.

Learn more at www.mhfi.com/careers  

McGraw Hill Financial is an equal opportunity employer. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment. For special accommodation due to disability, please email webmaster -at- mcgraw-hill.com and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate individual.

 

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