AIS Onbaording PMO AVP

State Street•Quincy, MA

20h

About The Position

The AIS Onboarding Program Manager will provide program management and support the onboarding and conversions for new and existing State Street clients. These can range from small onboarding projects to large and complex fund launches / conversions within AIS. We are looking for an individual who can provide leadership, end-to-end project management, and advocacy for the various sub-streams. This includes planning, overseeing and coaching team leads with daily activities, implementation and execution of project level deliverables as well as producing executive level reporting to enable the achievement of integration goals.

Requirements

7+ years of relevant industry experience
Project management experience in large complex programs or projects
Strong leadership and organizational skills
Self-motivation and the ability to work independently or in a team environment
Ability to multi-task and be responsible for 1 or more tasks / projects
Ability to manage other project managers on selective projects
Strong written / verbal communication and relationship management skills
PC Skills – Excel, PowerPoint, Word
Change management
Solution delivery mindset
Strong analytical skills
Strong Excel, Powerpoint and reporting skills
Excellent written and verbal English communication

Nice To Haves

Financial services experience within AIS Fund Accounting, Custody, and other Back Office functions experience preferred
Undergraduate Degree - Business or Finance major preferred
PMP Certification (beneficial, but not required)

Responsibilities

Responsible for planning, organizing, and directing specific onboarding projects while ensuring they are completed on time and within scope.
Focus is Fund Launches/Conversion Projects for both existing and new clients across all of AIS Teams
Key project leader and contact for facing off with the client and the client’s Program Management Team as well as all SSB Internal Workstreams
Support revenue growth, by managing the end-to-end onboarding project across all phases; Legal & AML KYC to Due Diligence/Data Gathering to Finalizing Ops Model to Fund/System Set Up to Fund Launch/Parallel to Hypercare after go live
Drive joint and internal governance with internal and external stakeholders.
This includes the development and maintenance of project plans, status reports, issue and action logs, scope and requirements documents.
Ensuring active issue management and facilitating required decision making are critical to the role.
Drive closure on all aspects of the program with support from the functional teams and SME’s, including contracts and commercials, scope and solution, project sequencing and planning, development, testing, conversion and post conversion activities.
Help Manage other project managers supporting workstreams in projects to deliver the end-to-end client solution.
Coordinate breakout sessions if risks/issues occur that impact the project plan; work with workstream leads to resolve open items impacting the project plan
Lead and support governance meetings to discuss progress and address issues to achieve milestones and objectives; set meeting agendas and document meeting minutes
Actively communicate the status of work with other team members/workstream leads within SSB and with client to ensure that everyone involved is fully informed, and if necessary, re-allocate work.
Solution impediments with stakeholders, drive project progress, escalate risks, issues and solutions
Contribute to overall status reporting for SSB senior management for all open onboarding projects supported within the team

Benefits

retirement savings plan (401K) with company match
insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages
paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities
access to our Employee Assistance Program
incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards
eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans
inclusive development opportunities
flexible work-life support
paid volunteer days
vibrant employee networks