Payments Strategic Execution - Project Manager - Senior Associate

J.P. Morgan Payments Business Transformation, Strategic Execution – Associate

J.P. Morgan Payments Business Transformation is a strategic and execution-focused group. Payments sits at the intersection of finance and technology in an industry undergoing a major transformation.
Business Transformation supports the business on a project basis, where projects are team-based and include regular interaction with J.P. Morgan Payments executives.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead project Strategic execution projects, ensuring working organization is in full alignment with project goals and objective, providing guidance, motivation, and support to project team organization.
• Take an active role on leading conversations, driving the strategic tasking and main requirements from key stakeholders and project participants.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders and business leads to ensure the successful delivery of projects in full alignment with the bank's priorities and strategic objectives.
• Collect - analyze and report project data, including status updates, milestones completion and key performance indicators (KPI´s) from initiatives and projects.
• Prepare project status reports, executive summary’s, scorecards, and dashboards for senior management, highlighting risks, watch items, timelines and other metrics as stablished for project.
• Coordinate project meetings, workshops, and other related activities, including the preparation of agendas, meeting minutes, and action items.
• Communicate effectively across the organization through frequent verbal and written updates, taking an active part of the conversations, war rooms to trigger actions towards project main objectives accomplishment.
• Manage risks and issues for prompt resolution when and where applicable. Leverage from Counterparties, Management Team, and available resources for creative and effective resolution alternatives as mitigations and prevention strategies.
• Conduct and Ensure escalations are in place when required and in consistency with resolution seeking.
• Act as an agent of change – early adopter and promoter of such in the organization, driven either by market trends, client necessities or strategic decisions made, after being part of a living and always evolving organization.

Specific capabilities required for the position include:

• Interpersonal and influencing and negotiation skills, including the ability to work with colleagues at all levels in the organization.
• Results driven, strong analytical and end to end problem solving skills. Ability to make informed decisions quickly.
• Structure and build data driven quantitative and qualitative/conceptual analyses.
• Comfortable navigating in complex organization and projects working environment in hand by hand with Cross LOB stakeholders and a diverse group of interest.
• Ability to convey and articulate concise communication, with experience speaking to senior executives and end to end organization.
• Proactive mind set in the prevention – drive of challenging scenarios, suggest concrete actions to achieve progress and provide support towards roadblock removal.
• Ability to adapt to changing project requirements and surroundings environment, with the flexibility to handle unexpected challenges and fast-moving targets.

Qualifications:

• + 7 years internal / external management consulting, working with a diverse nature of Business-related initiatives and projects with a high orientation to Strategic Business Transformation.
• Payments experience preferred; wholesale banking and B2B payments background is a plus.
• Outstanding ability to communicate effectively and confidently (oral and written)
• Problem solving skills; able to break down and structure problems.
• Project and process management skills.
• PMI – PMP certification and or Scrum Master certification is a plus.
• Open to an environment of active developmental feedback from peers
• Excellent command of MS Excel and PowerPoint; familiar with analytical and data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, R, SAS, etc.)
• Monday, Jira and other agile tools for project scrum framework is a plus.
• Proficient in English, Portuguese is a plus.