Senior Program Manager

Job Description:

Senior Program Manager

Job Description

The Senior Program Manager is part of a team that enables the Corporate Technology Group to continuously modernize, consolidate and digitize technology solutions and provide enhanced user experience to Fidelity associates. The Senior Manager acts as a product owner, conducts business analysis and works closely with the Fidelity business units and Corporate Technology Group to ensure they have a solid understanding of Supervision and Surveillance, current and future needs. The Senior Manager also manages and maintains a prioritized backlog of deliverables, develops and tests technical solutions, and is an active participant in building effective business partner relationships.

In this role, you will help ensure that Fidelity associates comply with a broad range of securities laws and regulations. By being customer obsessed, you will help associates meet their compliance obligations. You will think and work across Fidelity by partnering and driving solutions with our business and control function partners. By taking risks and valuing pace over perfection, you will help drive innovation in the compliance space.

The Team

Fidelity’s reputation is built on trust. The mission of Enterprise Compliance is to maintain the firm’s unwavering integrity through the highest professional standards. Enterprise Compliance consists of several key functions including Ethics, Strategy and Planning, Employee Compliance, Workplace Solutions Compliance, Advice Solutions Compliance, Regulatory Compliance, Global Sanctions and Risk Assessment and Testing. The Ethics Office plays a vital role in supporting associates at Fidelity by interpreting laws, regulations, and standards into workable compliance measures, fostering a culture of compliance and ethics through training and awareness efforts, and ensuring program effectiveness through monitoring and reporting.

In this role, you will help ensure that Fidelity protects its reputation by providing operational and project management leadership to the team and oversight of planning and resource allocation. We are seeking a candidate with a strong project management, technology, and compliance or audit background, who can thrive in a challenging, deadline-driven team environment. The ideal candidate will apply critical thinking to analyze complex requirements and identify and implement process improvements. Our group is passionate about modernizing compliance using technology, data analytics and process automation. We are looking for someone who is just as driven as we are to find innovative solutions to address compliance needs.

The Expertise You Have

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Previous project management, audit, regulatory, risk or compliance environment experience required
• 8 years of relevant experience
• Knowledgeable and skilled in India and US financial and securities markets required.
• Strong problem solving and data analytical skills
• Positive attitude and goal-driven
• Strong presentation, written, and interpersonal communication skills

The Skills You Bring

• Your strong project management skills allow you to lead cross functional teams to implement broad scale initiatives
• Your strong communal working style with good interpersonal, relationship management, and facilitation skills
• Your ability to have trade-off conversations with business partners and customers
• Your ability to take initiative; your actions and decisions are driven by customer needs
• Your aim to understand business problems and needs as deeply as you can and translate those needs to technical requirements in support of a solution design
• Your demonstrated excellent verbal and written communication, organization, and time management skills
• You’re a problem-solver and inspire creative solutions
• You can handle multiple tasks and priorities simultaneously
• You can overcome unexpected obstacles with little or no supervision

The Value You Deliver

• Assisting in defining and executing Ethics Office technology strategy roadmap
• Collaborating with stakeholders during the visioning and concept development of a product
• Working closely with Corporate Technology Product Management and Ethics business functions to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or Return on Investment
• Working closely with stakeholders to ensures that the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is clear and understood by the delivery teams
• Leading product release plans and setting the expectations for delivery of new functionalities
• Solving application related problems, making decisions, completing trade-off analysis to stay on track towards business deliverable commitments
• Acting as an ambassador for the product and as the primary contact for communicating changes related to the product to all stakeholders
• Assessing value, developing cases, and prioritizing stories, epics and themes to ensure work is aligned with technology strategy and results in maximum value
• Working with end-users to define testing environment and acceptance criteria; explains the criticality of their active involvement in test design and all testing phases
• Defining, creating, and executing test plans and cases; estimating time, effort and resources required.
• Drafting key objectives and results, strategies and analyzing the product data to make business decisions

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Program/Project Management

Most roles at Fidelity are Hybrid, requiring associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office. This does not apply to Remote or fully Onsite roles. Some roles may have unique onsite requirements. Please consult with your recruiter for the specific expectations for this position.

Please be advised that Fidelity’s business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.