Financial Markets & Real Estate - Transactions, Manager

PRICE WATERHOUSE COOPERS; New York (NY); On-site; USD 99,000 - 297,000; Full time

Job summary

As a Manager at a leading consultancy firm, you will implement risk frameworks and manage high-value projects within Financial Services. You will leverage strong organizational skills to lead teams, ensuring top-quality results while adhering to regulatory standards. This role demands significant project management experience and the ability to navigate complex stakeholder relationships.

Benefits

Medical and dental benefits

401(k) plan

Paid vacation

Personal/sick leave

Qualifications

• 6 years of experience in project management.
• CAPM or PMP certification required.
• Experience in financial services and risk management implementations.

Responsibilities

• Implement risk and control frameworks within Financial Services.
• Supervise and develop teams for client engagement.
• Manage client service accounts and analyze complex problems.

Skills

Project Management

Analytical Skills

Coaching

Stakeholder Engagement

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree (preferred)

Job description

At PwC, our people in project portfolio management focus on optimising project portfolios to drive strategic business outcomes. These individuals oversee project selection, prioritisation, and resource allocation to facilitate successful project delivery. In project management at PwC, you will oversee and coordinate various projects to facilitate successful delivery within budget and timeline. You will leverage strong organisational and communication skills to effectively manage teams and stakeholders.

Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member’s unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
• Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
• Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
• Effectively mentor others.
• Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
• Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

The Opportunity
As part of the Strategic Program Management Office Sourcing team you are going to implement risk and control frameworks within Financial Services. As a Manager, you are going to supervise, develop, and coach teams, manage client service accounts, and drive assigned client engagement workstreams by independently solving and analyzing complex problems to develop rigorous deliverables. This role requires significant experience in project management, evaluating enterprise data architecture, and developing and validating business stakeholders' conceptual data models.

Responsibilities
- Implement risk and control frameworks within Financial Services
- Supervise, develop, and coach teams to deliver top-quality results
- Manage client service accounts and oversee client engagement workstreams
- Independently analyze and solve complex technical problems
- Evaluate enterprise data architecture and develop conceptual data models
- Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement
- Assure adherence to the firm's methodologies and quality standards

What You Must Have
- Bachelor's Degree
- 6 years of experience
- CAPM or PMP certification

What Sets You Apart
- Applying experience in project management (e.g. project governance, project management controls, complex schedule analytics, performance metrics and reporting)
- Implementing risk and control frameworks within Financial Services
- Reading situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships
- Using straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others
- Evaluating enterprise data architecture feasibility, risk and technologies related to business change i.e. assessing, identifying and recommending technology and related business stakeholders' data requirements: Solution prototyping and development, processes and performance from business and technical standpoints, and the impact of data changes on business and/or IT processes
- Prioritizing, preparing and implementing data architectural improvements i.e. developing and recommending alternative technical and data management solutions, methodologies, strategies and architectural improvement plans
- Developing and validating business stakeholders' conceptual data models, including socializing and implementing logical and physical solutions; identifying data sources and metadata to deliver requirements and having completed two or more life cycle implementations
- Interacting with end users to understand and document business and functional requirements for complex projects, including software development life cycle
- Participating in consulting-related projects within a professional services environment
- Master's Degree preferred

Learn more about how we work: https://pwc.to/how-we-work

PwC does not intend to hire experienced or entry level job seekers who will need, now or in the future, PwC sponsorship through the H-1B lottery, except as set forth within the following policy: https://pwc.to/H-1B-Lottery-Policy.

As PwC is anequal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment at PwC without regard to race; color; religion; national origin; sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity); age; disability; genetic information (including family medical history); veteran, marital, or citizenship status; or, any other status protected by law.

For only those qualified applicants that are impacted by the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, San Diego County Fair Chance Ordinance, and the California Fair Chance Act, where applicable, arrest or conviction records will be considered for Employment in accordance with these laws. At PwC, we recognize that conviction records may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship to responsibilities such as accessing sensitive company or customer information, handling proprietary assets, or collaborating closely with team members. We evaluate these factors thoughtfully to establish a secure and trusted workplace for all.



The salary range for this position is: $99,000 - $297,000, plus individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. For roles that are based in Maryland, this is the listed salary range for this position. Actual compensation within the range will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, qualifications and location, and applicable employment laws. PwC offers a wide range of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, 401k, holiday pay, vacation, personal and family sick leave, and more. To view our benefits at a glance, please visit the following link: https://pwc.to/benefits-at-a-glance