Project Manager - Associate

You are a strategic thinker passionate about driving solutions in “Account and SSI Reference Data”. You have found the right team. As an Account and SSI Reference Data Professional / Lead within our CAS Change team, you will be responsible for setting and improving our organizational objectives, and ensuring their consistent accomplishment.

Own end-to-end delivery of projects from inception through production deployment while managing multiple priorities effectively. Document user stories (Jiras) and clear acceptance criteria, and manage the product backlog with timely prioritization. Translate business problems into well-defined user stories and acceptance criteria, maintaining a prioritized backlog aligned to strategic goals. Partner with engineering teams to plan and maintain sprint backlogs (at least two sprints ahead), ensuring readiness of requirements and dependencies. Participate actively in Agile ceremonies (planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives) with the product delivery lead and Scrum Master. Collaborate with Technology, Product Owners, and Operations partners to ensure coherent design solutions and consistent standards. Build deep domain expertise in Account and SSI reference data and drive process streamlining, controls enhancement, and process improvement opportunities. Produce governance materials (e.g., scorecards/status reporting) and contribute to monthly governance forums. Identify problems, risks, and dependencies and manage them per Agile principles while adhering to data quality, risk, and control standards. Coordinate release and implementation activities, including UAT readiness, training/support for Operations, stakeholder sign-offs, and release communications/notes. Monitor success of deliverables and demonstrate value delivered, while evaluating AI/automation opportunities and communicating with technical and non-technical senior stakeholders. Required qualifications, capabilities and skills Background in Financial Services; Experience in product development and/or change management. Experience in user story writing, story mapping, backlog prioritization, and understanding prioritization constraints. Demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including root-cause identification and sound judgment with attention to detail and accuracy. Experience in release planning and associated release activities. Ability to analyze business needs/activities and translate them into solution requirements. Apply an Agile project delivery mindset with knowledge and working experience of the Scrum framework. Proficiency with product management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence) and MS Office (e.g., PowerPoint, Excel, Visio), Lucid/Excalidraw. Demonstrate strong interpersonal skills and ability to effectively manage stakeholder relationships. Familiarity with reference data and data analysis capabilities to support product design. Adopt a business process reengineering mindset. Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in Finance, Mathematics, or Statistics. Knowledge of Markets products is an advantage. Familiarity with the company’s products and services (Markets, Prime Brokerage, Clearing). Experience producing PowerPoint presentations for senior audiences. Project management certification (PMP, PRINCE2, Scaled Agile). Experience with data analysis tools (SQL / Alteryx / Tableau) is a plus.