Hybrid Program Manager: Transformation & Governance

Mizuho Americas; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 111,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Mizuho Americas is seeking a Program Manager to lead complex, cross-functional business and technology transformation initiatives. You will guide programs through all lifecycle phases, ensure alignment with business and regulatory goals, and manage governance, risks, and executive communications.

Role requires strong stakeholder management, robust budgeting and planning skills, and proficiency with PM tools like JIRA and the MS Office suite. Hybrid work model with remote options is available.

Qualifications

• Proven track record delivering large-scale cross-functional business and technology transformation initiatives within complex financial institutions.
• Experience preparing and presenting status updates, recommendations, and decision materials to senior management and governance committees.
• Strong understanding of finance, risk, operations, data, and technology processes with regulatory change awareness.

Responsibilities

• Lead the successful delivery of complex business and technology transformation initiatives through all phases of the project lifecycle.
• Drive execution of target-state design, technology implementation, testing, and operational readiness.
• Coordinate and manage integrated program plans, milestones, and resources across workstreams.
• Ensure delivery aligns with objectives, regulatory expectations, governance standards, and controls.
• Drive program governance, RAID management, dependency tracking, issue escalation, and executive communications.
• Facilitate working groups, steering committees, and governance forums for timely decisions.
• Produce and maintain program artifacts: project plans, status reports, executive presentations, logs.
• Build partnerships across business, operations, finance, risk, compliance, and technology.
• Provide transparent assessments of program health, readiness, risks, dependencies, and key decisions.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Budgeting

JIRA

Microsoft Office

Regulatory change management

Stakeholder management

Communication

PM methodologies

Tools

JIRA

Microsoft Office

Job description

Mizuho Americas is seeking a Program Manager to lead complex, cross-functional business and technology transformation initiatives. You will guide programs through all lifecycle phases, ensure alignment with business and regulatory goals, and manage governance, risks, and executive communications.

Role requires strong stakeholder management, robust budgeting and planning skills, and proficiency with PM tools like JIRA and the MS Office suite. Hybrid work model with remote options is available.