Project Analyst/Manager, AVP at State Street in Boston, Massachusetts

Job Description:

The Legal, Corporate Administration, Regulatory Affairs, and Security (LCARS) Program Management Office (PMO) drives the successful execution of projects in State Street's Legal, Regulatory Affairs, and Global Security divisions. Our projects typically help State Street mitigate risk, meet regulatory requirements, or enable our internal clients to optimize business processes.

The LCARS PMO is seeking candidates for a hybrid Project Manager/Business Analyst position. This role will report to the Head of the LCARS PMO and will support and manage initiatives that are primarily business-focused and may include the implementation of new technology. The candidate selected for this role will have demonstrable experience with business analysis and full lifecycle project management. Your responsibilities will include project analysis and/or management for small to medium sized projects, or a component of a larger project from initiation through implementation. Deliverables in your scope include requirements documentation, user acceptance testing facilitation, training and implementation roll-out strategy and plans.

This role is for someone who has excellent analytical and problem solving skills, is a great communicator, has a team player frame of mind, and is flexible and adaptable to evolving needs.

This role is a hybrid role based in Boston with an minimum expectation of 3 days in-office per week.

Principal Responsibilities

• Drive business analysis of PMO projects including analysis of current processes and recommend solutions and improvements; assess impact of system changes to business processes; own data mapping and data analysis


• Create clear and concise business and functional requirements; support facilitation of user acceptance testing;


• Own the end-to-end planning and management of small to medium projects or a component of a large project


• Develop and maintain detailed end-to-end project plans


• Under supervision, plans, organizes, and oversees the activities of cross-functional project teams including IT


• Sets and continually manages project expectations with team members and other stakeholders


• Manages project staffing; leads people and teams without a direct reporting relationship


• Coordinates communication with sponsors and management concerning project status and issues, including formal management reporting


• Clearly and articulately conveys project constraints, risks, and plans to all audience levels


• Demonstrates an understanding of the impact of problems across the organization and facilitates collaborative solutions


• Adheres to best practice methodology standards across a variety of projects and provides input to foster continuous improvement of PMO best practices

• Excellent business analysis and project management skills; effective at managing small to medium projects and resources throughout a project lifecycle


• Superior analytical and problem solving skills


• Exceptional attention to detail


• Strong interpersonal, facilitation, presentation and negotiation skills


• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, at all levels throughout an organization


• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective and collaborative relationships with key stakeholders


• Effective at managing conflict and influencing others for results


• Business results orientation


• Excellent time and prioritization management skills with ability to deliver on commitments and quickly deliver results


• Experience with risk and change management

• BS/BA degree


• 7 or more years of financial services project management experience, preferably in a large, global institution


• 4-5 plus years of Business Analysis experience in the financial services industry


• Experience with project management tools and techniques


• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products particularly Project, Visio, Word and Excel; hands-on experience with Pivot tables and VLOOKUP necessary; familiarity with SQL preferred


• Background in software implementation and / or systems analysis a plus


• PMP or PgMP certification desired

The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.