Senior Risk & Regulatory IT Project Manager #3598104

Join a global financial services environment supporting risk technology initiatives across banking, regulatory, and reporting functions. This team partners closely with business stakeholders, technology teams, QA, SMEs, and senior leadership to deliver complex regulatory and risk management solutions. The work is highly visible, cross-functional, and centered on ensuring that business needs are translated into effective technology outcomes that support governance, compliance, and enterprise risk objectives.

Engagement: W2 only (no C2C/1099)

This is a hybrid opportunity based in Charlotte, North Carolina, supporting a long-term engagement within a large financial institution. The role offers exposure to senior stakeholders, enterprise-level regulatory initiatives, and complex risk technology programs across market risk, credit risk, reporting, and data-driven banking operations.

• Lead delivery of risk and regulatory technology initiatives by managing scope, timelines, risks, issues, and stakeholder expectations.
• Partner with business users to gather, analyze, document, and validate functional requirements.
• Translate business needs into clear IT requirements that support implementation, testing, reporting, and production readiness.
• Coordinate across developers, QA, SMEs, senior management, and geographically distributed teams.
• Conduct root cause analysis, gap analysis, and current-state versus future-state assessments to shape effective solutions.
• Support UAT, training, rollout, change management, and post-production activities.
• Provide senior leadership with clear updates on project progress, risks, issues, and action plans.
• Drive process improvements and ensure implemented solutions align with business, risk, and regulatory goals.

• 15+ years of professional experience within large financial institutions.
• Strong background delivering regulatory initiatives such as DFAST, Basel III, CCAR, FRTB, or similar risk/regulatory programs.
• Hands-on experience with risk and regulatory implementations, reporting, documentation, and production support.
• Strong understanding of Market Risk, Credit Risk, VaR, financial instruments, market data sources, trading systems, and risk governance.
• Proven ability to bridge business and technology teams by translating complex financial and technical concepts into actionable requirements.
• Experience managing multiple complex initiatives simultaneously with limited supervision.
• Knowledge of Waterfall and Agile project management frameworks.
• Proficiency with Jira, MS Project, Confluence, ServiceNow, Visio, Excel, or similar collaboration/project tools.
• SQL proficiency required; Databricks knowledge is a plus.
• Strong leadership, relationship management, stakeholder engagement, emotional intelligence, and executive communication skills.
• Understanding of financial operations, MIS, data management, and reporting processes within commercial and investment banking.
• BA/BS degree required.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.