IT Finance Program Manager

Bayview Asset Management; New York (NY); Hybrid; Full time

Job summary

Bayview Asset Management seeks an IT Finance Program Manager responsible for liaising between IT and Finance departments. The role involves managing IT requests, ensuring project tracking, and developing solutions to optimize business processes. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree and extensive project management experience in finance or IT.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5-7 years as a Project Manager with a proven track record.
• Experience in Corporate Finance, Asset Management or Hedge Funds preferred.
• PMP certification is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage IT-related requests and issues effectively.
• Coordinate with IT teams to deliver high-quality support.
• Develop and maintain project documentation and budgets.

Skills

Communication

Problem Solving

Organization

Project Management

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Finance, or Information Technology

Job description

Overview

ABOUT US:

Founded in 1993, Bayview Asset Management is an investment management firm focused on investments in mortgage and consumer credit, including whole loans, asset-backed securities, mortgage servicing rights, and other credit-related assets.

POSITION SUMMARY:

This IT Finance Program Manager position that sits in our IT Program Management Office (PMO) serves as the primary liaison between the IT and Finance departments. The IT Finance Program Manager is responsible for ensuring all IT-related requests, issues, and inquiries are effectively managed and resolved in a timely manner. They will work under the Head of the IT PMO, providing formal management and tracking of projects within the pipeline. A successful IT Finance Program Manager is organized, diligent, and proactive. This role requires strong communication skills, technical expertise, and the ability to coordinate with various IT teams to deliver high-quality support and solutions.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understanding data analytics and financial concepts to translate complex business requirements into actionable technology solutions.
• Identify opportunities for supporting and optimizing business processes and system implementations to achieve business goals.
• Deep understanding of databasing, cloud technologies, data structure optimization, reporting infrastructure, and SQL.
• Develop partnership with stakeholders across the Finance Department and Technology to understand business requirements and plan for resource utilization, project prioritization, project dependencies, and developing project documents.
• Perform business assessment, evaluate operational benefits of solutions, and convey benefits and gains to leadership and stakeholders.
• Produce all elements associated with a project plan and maintain key project governance documentation.
• Build long-term, trust-based relationships with stakeholders, vendors, and internal shared services.
• Ensure adherence to IT security policies and procedures, safeguarding company data and systems from unauthorized access and breaches.
• Manage Project Team by assisting all team members to ensure goals and requirements are being met and any risks or issues are quickly addressed, mitigated and/or resolved.
• Develop and maintain budget, project, and reporting documentation as necessary to ensure timely and effective communication of real time status through presentations and reporting.
• Must be able to manage several initiatives at a time.
• Other duties as needed or assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree – Engineering, Business Administration, Finance, or Information Technology.
• Minimum 5-7 years as a Project Manager, with proven track record of Greenfield projects.
• Experience in Corporate Finance, Asset Management or Hedge Funds.

SKILLS:

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, ability to problem solve and liaise with departmental staff and senior management.
• Have a high degree of organization, individual initiative, and personal accountability.
• Understanding multi-departmental Enterprises is necessary.
• Familiarity with Business Process Management, Waterfall, Agile and Lean project management approaches.
• Confident leading cross-functional teams, consisting of co-location, virtual, onsite, and consultants.
• Ability to work efficiently and seamlessly in fast paced technology and business domains.

Certifications, Licenses, and/or Registration

• PMP certification a plus

Location and Compensation :

• This role will be based in either Bayview’s New York, NY office.
• This role will be hybrid (Mon & Fri wfh, 3 on-site Tues - Thurs)
• Base compensation is expected to be $110 - 135 with the opportunity for incentive compensation including bonus compensation.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and use hands to handle, touch or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee frequently is required to talk and hear. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms. The employee is rarely required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

EEOC

Bayview is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All aspects of consideration for employment and employment with the Company are governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.