BNY Mellon’s Pershing

Founded 80 years ago and renowned by professionals across all key segments of the financial markets, BNY Mellon’s Pershing is the behind-the-scenes dominator of trade execution, clearing, custody, and a broad spectrum of the critical technology and businessprocess products and services that power Wall Street and financial enterprises around the world.  We serve broker-dealers, registered investment advisors, independent financial advisers, wealth managers, hedge fund and '40 Act fund managers, family offices, and individual investors with innovative financial solutions that help our clients and their investors build their businesses and their financial lives on a secure and resilient foundation.  We enable our clients to adapt with agility to market demands and evolving regulatory requirements, and to drive dynamic growth and transformational digital experiences across the value chain. From our core brokerage business, we have evolved into multifaceted global firm that leads our industry in providing forward-thinking investment solutions, technology-driven efficiencies, practice insight and management, and overall service excellence.  As a BNY Mellon company, we are a key part of the oldest bank in the United States, “The Investments Company to the World,” and continue to build on a 230-year history of trust and excellence in investment management, investment services, and wealth management to help institutions and individuals succeed in markets all over the world.   Pershing Technology Want to work on the team that was fintech before there was “fintech” – and which continues to win top global awards for innovation, quality, and service? Pershing Technology is the global leader trusted by other global leaders to ideate, innovate, and implement next-generation solutions for trade execution, clearing, custody, and a broad array of the critical technology services upon which enterprises from all segments of the financial markets rely.  Our platforms rest on world-class infrastructure that supports portals and systems through which we deliver state-of-the-art applications that empower our clients to build their businesses and better serve their investors. By the numbers, we perform at a level and a scale which few firms can equal: every business day, ~USD 14 billion flows through our systems as part of an average of ~8,500,000 transactions and ~1,200,000 trades.  We maintain the systems that handle this massive volume with 99.98% average monthly uptime; needless to say, risk management, resiliency, and security are our watchwords.  We have developed a high-performance culture in which responsiveness and agility are tied to our commitment to serving our clients’ best interests.  Our flexible, open-architecture, fully-integrated suite of solutions are consumed by clients who want us to manage their technology portals, those who want to integrate our products and services with their own, and those who want to develop their own technologies and control them, end-to-end. From advanced artificial intelligence to virtual reality, from robotic process automation to blockchain, we’re building the digital experiences through which the global financial industry will be transformed, and new titans arise  

Principal Project/Program Manager->> Leads and provides direction and guidance for a wide array of activities associated with project planning and management to ensure that projects are completed on time, within budget and to client specifications. Manages and oversees the end to end project management activities such as project reporting, project planning, issue / risk identification and tracking, scope management, estimation, client management, relationship management and other project documentation preparation for projects of high business complexity (involving multiple systems interfaces that are highly visible to the organization). Defines and manages the lifecycle from project initiation through to program closure. Manages and resolves risks, issues and dependencies. Measures and monitors program actuals, forecasts and budgets and updates plans with accurate, up-to-date information in a timely manner. Follows financial standards & processes (e.g. monthly external revenue accruals, software capitalization, procurement & external payments). Reports financial information and status to the required executive level through steering committees. Secures, leads, motivates and inspires the internal & external resources required to deliver the program. Establishes the program s governance (e.g. sponsors, approvers, stakeholders). Manages Program Office Resources. May have formal management responsibility for Program Team members. Serves as a liaison between clients and internal technical groups to ensure delivery of projects on time, within budget, and to specification. Has regular contact among peers within the firm and externally, including regulators and professional organizations. Provides advice to internal clients on the implications of business trends, issues, operating environment changes and firm or business unit strategy. Ensures project delivery is in conformance with company methodologies and standards. Contributes to the achievement of area objectives.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree, preferably in business management or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience required, advanced degree preferred. Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is beneficial 10 - 12 years of related project management experience required, experience with technology or financial services industry is a plus.
BNY Mellon is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
Minorities/Females/Individuals With Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

Primary Location: United States-New Jersey-Jersey City
Internal Jobcode: 45190
Job: Information Technology
Organization: Pershing Technology-HR06376
Requisition Number: 1916536