Associate Director, Project Management - Jersey City, United States - Royal Bank of Canada

Royal Bank of Canada

Verified Company

Jersey City, United States

1 week ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

Job Summary
The Associate Director within U.S.

CFO Operations Office, Data Strategy & Analytics group will drive various strategic initiatives across all verticals within the US Finance team.

In addition, this role will help transform business processes while partnering across multiple functions and stakeholders across the Enterprise through design, implement, and maintaining front-to-back project plans that align with future-state corporate strategy, including regulatory and business innovation initiatives.

What will you do?

Drive and contribute to key strategic initiatives.
Work in a fastpaced environment and prioritize work to meet deadlines.
Manage all fronttoback aspects of a project to ensure that milestones are accomplished within a set deadline.
Partner across functions, including regulatory report owners to collect current state requirements to support the adoption of various strategic solutions.
Ensure effective execution of analysis and requirements gathering by team members.
Develop constructive relationships within and outside the team.
Lead the design and review metrics to track the progress of various initiatives, including preparing scorecards and escalating delays and obstacles to management.
Lead the execution and implementation of the endtoend change management cycle (program/project initiation through project closure and postmortems).
Lead Working Group meetings with crossfunctional teams to deliver results, triage issues, and drive progress.
Prepare senior management meeting materials, such as Executive Committee and Program Operating Group meetings, and any other program related forums.
Perform risk assessments in order to identify potential risks/opportunities and recommend mitigation strategies.
Successfully deliver the implementation of all project objectives and ensure business stakeholders are wellinformed of the futurestate benefits.
Represent the business needs while interfacing with functional and technology teams for major initiatives, working collaboratively on scope and plan definition.
Manage multiple Regulatory and Data Strategy tasks simultaneously.
Fostering open communication and information sharing within the organization.
Strong capability to manage complex business requirements and to coordinate across multiple teams.
Prepare budget approval submissions, change requests and partner with stakeholders to determine impact analysis.
Perform additional responsibilities as requested to achieve business objectives.

What do you need to succeed?

Graduate or Undergraduate Degree, with a focus in Business, Finance, Project Management, or a related field preferred.
Minimum 5+ years of relevant work experience.
Knowledge of US regulatory space, including reporting, bank capital management, and stress testing processes.
Prior experience with regulatoryfocused projects/initiatives.
Experience writing and editing requirement documentation, project plans, or enduser documents.
Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities.
Strong capability to manage complex business requirements and to coordinate across the organization with short timelines.
Excellent communication skills both verbal and written, including presentation skills
Ability to influence others and work well with junior team members.
Skillful in Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, etc.
Work well in a fastpaced environment and prioritize work to meet short deadlines.
Must be operationally savvy, actionoriented, and continuously strives for improvement.

What's in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper.

We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and highperforming team
Opportunities to do challenging work
Opportunities to build close relationships with clients

RBC's compensation philosophy and principles recognize the importance of a highly qualified global workforce and plays a critical role in attracting, engaging, and retaining talent that:

Drives RBC's high-performance culture
Enables collective achievement of our strategic goals
Generates sustainable shareholder returns and above market shareholder value

Job Skills
Business Oriented, Communication, Long Term Planning, Meeting Management, Organizational Change Management, Project Management, Project Management Oversight, Resource Coordination, Results-Oriented,