Portfolio Delivery Manager

Bank of America • Jersey City, NJ

6d • Onsite

About The Position

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day. Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve. Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations. At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us! Position Summary: This job is responsible for leading a team to maximize the value delivered through multiple programs and/or value streams within a small, less complex delivery portfolio. Key responsibilities include managing and developing the team through coaching, mentoring and feedback, aligning strategy, and execution by applying Lean and systems thinking approaches to strategy, investment funding, portfolio operations, and governance. Job expectations include managing the portfolio, ensuring compliance to standards, and driving continuous improvement to operations and governance.

Requirements

• 10 Years of financial industry, risk experience or job related experience required.
• Intense attention to accuracy, detail, and consistency
• Strong analytical skills and ability to effectively challenge information
• Strong communication skills: ability to communicate effectively both in writing and verbally and to feel comfortable delivering insights and recommendations to senior management
• Comfortable taking initiative and being resourceful/entrepreneurial
• Ability to work well under pressure in a fast-paced, deadline-specific environment.
• Excellent organizational skills with a keen ability to prioritize daily tasks with project work as well as ad-hoc requests
• Proven verbal and written communication skills and presentation skills
• Proficiency in core MS Office products (Word, Excel, SharePoint, Visio, etc)

Nice To Haves

• Computer Engineering/Financial Degree
• Experience delivering software projects in both Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Exposure to financial / product control functions within a bank.
• An enthusiastic approach with a positive attitude, and a highly motivated self-starter with a strong work ethic
• The ability to work on multiple assignments for different clients and segments while meeting deadlines and exceeding client expectations

Responsibilities

• Directs and leads a delivery team aligned to a portfolio and mentors Delivery Leads
• Manages and improves portfolio operations and governance processes, ensuring risks and roadblocks are escalated and resolved quickly
• Builds relationships with business and technology executives across multiple organizations, as well as Compliance and Risk
• Partners with the key stakeholders and leaders to define the vision and creating the portfolio roadmap aligned to strategic goals
• Provides status updates and reporting for the portfolio to stakeholders and leadership pertaining to the desired outcomes, delivery, risks, issues, and schedule
• Manages overall portfolio financials, Profit and Loss (P&L), and performance
• Ensures adherence with Enterprise Change Management standards
• Models an inclusive environment for employees and clients, aligned to company Great Place to Work goals.
• Demonstrates deep process knowledge, operational excellence and innovation through a focus on simplicity, data based decision making and continuous improvement.
• Communicates enterprise decisions, purpose, and results, and connects to team strategy, priorities and contributions.
• Ensures proper risk discipline, controls and culture are in place to identify, escalate and debate issues.
• Provides inspection, coaching and feedback to motivate, differentiate and improve performance.
• Actively manages expenses and budgets in alignment with objectives, making sound financial decisions.
• Assesses talent and builds bench strength for roles across the organization.
• Delivers results by effectively prioritizing, inspecting and appropriately delegating team work.

Benefits

• access to paid time off
• Discretionary incentive eligible
• annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager