Assistant Vice President – Senior Project Manager / Business Analyst

Business Overview:
Global Prime Services technology is seeking a Senior Project Manager/Business Analyst to assist in delivering various enhancements to applications and processes supporting Prime & Finance platform. This is a specialized, cross-asset platform, providing full service offering including Cash PB, Synthetics, Financing, and Margin. The long-term focus of the platform is on supporting activity growth targets set by the management, responding to the fast-pace of client demand for new products and services, and compliance with new regulatory obligations. There are several strategic technology initiatives on the way to accelerate DevOps, Virtualization, and Cloud transformation, as well as adaptation of machine learning and artificial intelligence to deliver client offering.
Candidate Success Factors:
Candidates are measured on the following four performance drivers, which will dictate how individual impact is considered on the Americas platform:

• Perceived as a person of high moral character; upholds corporate values and displays high ethical standards.
• Creates trust with colleagues.
• Compliance Culture and Conduct:
• Able to build relationships with a mix of colleagues and clients.
• Exercise appropriate autonomy in the execution and delivery of work.
• Acts in leadership capacity for projects, processes, or programs.
• Able to influence peers and team.
• Demonstrates the ability to influence stakeholders at the team level.
• Demonstrates good judgement when making decisions of high complexity and impact.
• Client, Customer and Stakeholder Focus:
• Interacts regularly with management and department leaders.
• Responsible for driving outcomes, which have meaningful effect on team or department.
• Results and Impact
• Leadership and Collaboration:
• Takes full responsibility for personal actions and demonstrates courage in facing problems and conflicts.

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of project deliverables against agreed scope, budget and timeline.
• Liaise with IT teams negotiating deliveries on the dependencies of the specific projects.
• Investigation of any issues, determining root causes and obtaining resolution.
• Setup and coordinate meetings associated with various project work-streams.
• Lead projects through entire project lifecycle from feasibility study to delivery
• Develop Test Procedures for various deliverables, in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Drive project delivery by maintaining project plans, organize status meetings, and prepare minutes. Develop user training and user guides.
• Conduct qualification of releases, System Integrated testing, User Acceptance testing
• Lead the process to gather and document business requirements
• Escalate blocking issues to the appropriate level of management.
• Prepare User guides, Business Cases, Training Material, Production Support procedures
• Provide regular reporting of deliveries against key milestones, proactive notification of risks and issues
• Convert business requirements into Functional specifications and System requirements
• Explain the functional/system requirements to the development team

Minimum Required Qualifications:
Functional and Technical

• Ability to:
• Excellent verbal / presentation and written communication skills with the ability to document clear and concise business and functional requirements documents;
• Work both independently and with a team in a dynamic environment;
• Deep Knowledge of various asset classes: Equities, Bonds, Options, Swaps;
• Excellent Business analysis and documentation skills with ability to think logically to analyze problems and define efficient solutions;
• Strong risk assessment, negotiation and problem resolution skills;
• 5+ years’ experience as a Project Manager / Business Analyst working exclusively on projects within Global Markets;
• Strong working knowledge of Excel, Word, Visio and PowerPoint;
• Good interpersonal skills to work effectively with representatives of a diverse range of departments globally;
• Understanding technical and business processes of trade life-cycle in US and international markets;
• Prioritize, organize own work and manage time effectively;
• Work within an environment with high pressure on timeliness and quality of deliveries

Behavioral Competency

• Desire to work in global delivery environment
• Well organized, strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Mentoring, people development skills are must have.
• Collaborative, analytical & logic driven, creative solution provider with go getter attitude & positive personality.
• Client focused & highly result driven
• Strategically motivated to design thinking

Preferred Qualifications:

• Functional domain knowledge of Prime Brokerage is a plus
• SQL skills

FINRA Registrations Required:

• Not Applicable

CFTC Swap Dealer Associated Person (if yes, NFA Swaps Proficiency Program is required):

• Not Applicable

SEC Security-Based Swap Dealer Associated Person:

• Not Applicable

The expected starting salary range for this position in New Jersey is between $110 to $150 annually. The actual salary may vary based upon several factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills/experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business line, and geographic/office location.
About BNP Paribas:
BNP Paribas is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach across the US, EMEA and APAC. It has a presence in 65 countries, with nearly 190,000 employees. In the United States, BNP Paribas has built a strong and diversified presence to support its client base. We continue to grow and strengthen our commitment to the US market through our Corporate & Institutional Banking activities. We are one of a few non-US banks to offer a full value chain for our clients, from trading to financing, and clearing and custody in the US with the international footprint and capacity to deliver both globally and locally. Leveraging the strength of our European roots, our network can support clients in virtually every region of the world, enabling more connectivity and efficiency wherever our clients conduct business. We take pride in our expertise and our ability to adapt while constantly looking ahead to create a more sustainable world.
The bank employs nearly 6,000 people and has a presence in the country since the late 1800s in major cities including New York, Jersey City, Chesterbrook, PA, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Denver and Washington, DC.
As an international company with a global footprint, the unique cultures and viewpoints of our team members are an integral part of the fabric of BNP Paribas. We are a company with a purpose - to be a responsible and sustainable global leader. We aim to create an environment where our employees feel empowered to drive change, make an impact and be true to themselves. We employ talented individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds, locally and globally, and are inspired by our employees who help us in cultivating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace through initiatives such as our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Leadership Forum and Employee Resource Group (ERG) communities. We strive to be a workplace where all team members can grow and thrive and offer robust training, development and mentoring opportunities to make that vision a reality. Our leaders are deeply committed to DEI and highly accessible to our employees, consistently soliciting feedback on how we can continue to support our employees to reach their highest potential.
BNP Paribas. The Bank for a Changing World - https://usa.bnpparibas/en/homepage/join-us/our-opportunities/
BNP Paribas is committed to providing a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, gender, age, creed, sex, religion, national origin, disability (physical or mental), marital status, citizenship, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, or any other legally protected status.
Primary Location
US-NJ-Jersey City
Job Type
Standard / Permanent
Job
MISCELLANEOUS
Education Level
Bachelor Degree or equivalent (>= 3 years)
Experience Level
At least 5 years
Schedule
Full-time
Entity
BNP Paribas CIB