Junior Project Manager / PMO - Financial Consulting

Overview

We are looking for professionals with some experience within Financial Services / Investment Banking to come on board and work with our Tier 1 Investment Banking clients as a Junior PM/PMO. We specialise in assisting our clients across their high priority and exciting regulatory change projects and you will have the opportunity to be a key member in transformative initiatives, building on your skillset to help in the planning of projects and ensuring they run smoothly to completion.

Treliant is a global consulting firm serving banks, mortgage originators and servicers, FinTechs, and other companies providing financial services. We are led by practitioners from the industry and the regulatory community who bring deep domain knowledge to help our clients drive business change and address the most pressing compliance, regulatory, and operational challenges.

Founded in 2005, Treliant is headquartered in Washington, DC, with offices across the United States, London, Belfast, Northern Ireland and Łódź, Poland. For more information visit www.treliant.com.

Responsibilities

While the scope of each project may be different, your duties & responsibilities may include:

• Working on transformation programs delivering material risk or regulatory oriented changes
• Supporting reviewing of processes and operating models and working within a team to recommend and deliver material improvements for resiliency or efficiency
• Contributing to assessment of controls processes and definition of solutions to optimise or deliver more robust control
• Contributing to large scale regulatory remediation activities supporting delivery of changes to close findings, align processes, improve management and control, and improve data management
• Working on projects for top tier investment banking clients, with a strong focus on the business process, data flows and digital transformation
• You will organise meetings and facilitate workshops to help drive the project forward
• You will be part of a team managing the overall program plan, risks, issues, dependencies and assumptions
• You will be actively involved in developing periodic communication packs to share project progress and status
• You will be expected to learn on the job and develop a good understanding of the domain, the business process and changes, to enable your level of contribution to increase
• Identify challenges and proactively seek to resolve or escalate risk and issues in a timely and well-articulated manner to the projects by engaging relevant stakeholders and PMs
• Produce accurate and insightful project update materials and artifacts, tailoring to various forums and committees
• Liaise with Project Leads and Stakeholders to understand/cascade guidance and requirements, ensuring adherence to PMO standards
• Manage and maintain Project Plan standards
• Provide regular quality checks of Milestones, Deliverables, Tasks within Project Plans
• Review Change Request Forms and confirm required sign-offs
• Leverage Project Tracking tools and provide update/reports on an ad-hoc basis

Qualifications

• Strong educational background at degree level
• 1-7 years’ experience of working on projects or professional services projects (Ideally for Investment Bank or a Big 4 consulting firm, relevant experience within other professional industries would be acceptable)
• Good understanding of investment banking organisations, processes and platforms
• Some knowledge of investment banking products, trade life cycle and operational processes
• Good project experience delivering change within a bank in a PM/PMO or coordination type role
• PMP, Prince 2 or other project management qualification an advantage but not essential
• Excellent communication skills across all levels of seniority
• Strong interpersonal skills, with good relationship building and engagement skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, particularly Excel, Word and PowerPoint

Benefits

If you want to be part of a dynamic team of professionals, we invite you to join the team at Treliant. We invest in people, and challenge you to advance your career while achieving your aspirations and goals. Here at Treliant, we pride ourselves on our collaborative team culture, where we embrace diversity of thought and innovation.

Career Development - We put an emphasis on personal and professional growth by providing all the training you’ll need to become a highly skilled Treliant consultant. Programs cover Finance, Regulatory, Technology, and Operational aspects of investment banking.

Clients – As a Treliant consultant, you will be working with some of the top clients in the financial services marketplace such as top tier Investment Banks. Our roles place you at the cutting edge of the projects on which you’ll be working, and giving you the opportunity to learn from, work with and build relationships with the very best within those companies.

Rewards – Treliant offers our permanent staff an excellent total rewards package, including competitive base salary, incentive schemes, flexible healthcare coverage and our company pension scheme.

Core Values – Whether you are a Client or an employee, Treliant wants the best for you. All our relationships are based on our Core Values: Deliver Excellence, Constantly Innovate, Treasure Diversity, Be Nimble, Listen First, and Develop our People.

Right to Work

Treliant is not in the position to provide sponsorship for this current position and so applicants must be able to work in the United Kingdom without requiring sponsorship.

Please note, Treliant receive a high volume of applications for all roles. While we will endeavour to respond to all applicants, this is not always possible. Should you not receive a response to your application within 2 weeks, it is likely that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. However, we would like to retain your details on our systems and may contact you should another potentially suitable vacancy arise.

Treliant LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, religion, age, disability, or military status in employment or provision of services. When contacted for an interview, an applicant who requires special accommodations due to a disability should notify the office so that proper arrangements can be made.