Program Manager - M&A

Hobbs Madison•Dallas, TX

3d•Remote

About The Position

Hobbs Madison is a leading consulting firm dedicated to bridging the gap between business strategy and technology execution. We combine deep technical and management expertise to solve complex challenges, enhance capabilities, and drive competitive growth. Our clients include some of the largest banking, insurance and investment firms in the United States. We are seeking a Program Manager with deep expertise in Mergers and Acquisitions within the banking industry. This role provides significant growth and exposure across multiple M&A initiatives within a financial institution. The Program Manager will lead Day 1 readiness, ensuring the successful conversion of, but not limited to, core systems, marketing, data, wire, digital banking, etc. Following Day 1, responsibilities will include system decommissioning, support planning, and post-integration activities. This role works directly with different clients and project teams to deliver the full M&A scope, while partnering with business change managers and project sponsors to align with business objectives. The Program Manager will own the conversion process end-to-end, driving execution through playbooks, work streams, and centralized oversight via an Event Command Center. The ideal candidate has proven experience leading M&A activities in a banking environment, both before and after Day 1 conversions, and is willing to step in to ensure success. This is a Remote, Full-Time position with the possibility of some travel.

Requirements

5+ years as an M&A Program Manager with a bank or with a consulting firm serving the financial services industry.
Knowledge of FIS, Fiserv, Jack Henry, Hogan, and/or other core solutions required.
Experience converting systems and applications during M&A activities.
Skill with Business Process assessment, current state/target state analysis and mapping
Excellent communication skills for business interviewing and collaborative design sessions with client teams.
Experience with bank related system conversions affecting branches, contact centers, digital banking and operations.
Experience working with PMO software
Experience with Change Controls
Experience with process reengineering
Strong Power Point, Word, Excel and Visio skills.
Working knowledge of Share Point, and Jira.

Nice To Haves

Working knowledge of M&A management applications i.e. Cutover

Responsibilities

Providing overall M&A planning, timeline, and issue monitoring and resolution
Work with M&A Project Managers and Business Analysts to create M&A Playbooks for the overall engagement and each workstream across the banking centers, contact centers and the operational and administrative teams to ensure all process steps, dependencies and interdependencies across systems and business units for the conversion implementation are addressed.
Establish the Line of Business Event Management
Setup and support the Line of Business Conversion Command Center
Create the Bank Associate Conversion Support Plan
Enforcing M&A Governance rules which involve working with the overarching structure, processes and procedures to accomplish objectives including metrics of success and deliverables
Working with other Program and Project Managers to resolve issues across project teams, individual project stakeholders, program stakeholders and sponsors
Coordinating resources within project teams
Ensuring synergies between workstreams are realized
Remove impediments to allow the project team to meet deliverables timeframe
Monitoring project expenditures and ensuring that the project realizes its financial & business benefits.
Managing risk and taking corrective measures to resolve issues
Managing communication across all stakeholders, third-party contributors and project team members
Maintaining the project documentation, including all plans, timelines, documentation and briefs/reports.
Ensuring the execution of all project tasks is carried out on schedule
Providing contingency planning and risk mitigation
Assuring contract compliance
Providing executive communication and materials such as status reports and/or presentations on status, issues, remediation activities, and timeline impact, if any.