Project Manager

Machine Learning Technologies, LLC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Machine Learning Technologies, LLC seeks a skilled Project Manager Payments to lead transformation initiatives for large global banks in payments and trade finance. This is a functional/delivery PM role focused on end-to-end delivery, process improvement, and digital transformation, coordinating senior stakeholders across geographies.

Responsibilities include owning end-to-end delivery, planning, tracking, and managing scope, timelines and budgets, and driving Agile practices while ensuring

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in payments and trade finance transformations.
• Strong background in delivering business/functional projects in global banks.
• Deep banking domain understanding with global bank exposure.
• Experience delivering transformation programs, not just IT implementations.
• Advocate of Agile ways of working and team alignment.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of payments and trade finance transformation projects in global banking environments.
• Plan, track, and manage scope, timelines, budgets, risks, issues, dependencies, and benefits.
• Lead functional change initiatives including operating model, process, and policy changes.
• Drive digital transformation projects with large deliveries in banks.

Skills

Payments domain knowledge

Global banking experience

Stakeholder management

Agile methods

Job description

We are seeking a skilled and experienced Project Manager Payments to lead complex, business-side transformation initiatives for large global banks, focusing on payments and trade finance. This is a functional/delivery PM role (not pure IT PM), driving end to end project lifecycle, process improvement, and digital transformation, while managing senior stakeholders across geographies.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Own end to end delivery of payments and trade finance transformation projects within global banking environments.
• Plan, track, and manage project scope, timelines, budgets, risks, issues, dependencies, and benefits.
• Lead functional change initiatives (not pure tech PM), including operating model, process, and policy changes.
• Drive digital transformation projects (at least 23 large digital deliveries in banks) in payments and related domains.
• Conduct change impact assessments and ensure effective communication and stakeholder alignment.
• Work closely with senior business stakeholders across regions; manage expectations, negotiations, and escalations.
• Prepare and present project status reports, steering decks, risk/issue logs, and resourcing plans.
• Champion Agile ways of working; align teams to Agile practices and cadences.
• Ensure projects deliver tangible business outcomes rather than purely consulting artefacts.
• Strong functional project management background in global banks.
• Deep banking domain understanding with global bank exposure (mandatory).
• Handson experience in Trade Finance and Payments (payments transformation, digital payments journeys, process change).
• Proven experience delivering transformation projects (business/functional), not just IT implementation.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.