Title :Portfolio Manager Location : Chicago, IL, United States (On-site/Hybrid) Duration: 3+ months
Job Summary: The Global Regulatory Affairs Office (GRAO) is responsible for overseeing the enhancement of our risk management and controls, remediation of regulatory and audit findings and the administration of regulatory affairs, including establishing a centralized and sustainable connection point for global regulatory communications, ensuring preparedness for examinations.
This Operational Risk and Resiliency Portfolio Manager role reports to the Head of Global Regulatory Program Management and is responsible for management of a team of program and project managers in support of large scale, enterprise-wide Programs with multiple projects and work streams. These projects involve delivery of critical strategic enterprise capabilities or regulatory changes that impact multiple business units or disciplines that execute the GRAO strategy.
The role holder will need the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment and exercise good judgment in a variety of situations. The Portfolio Manager will ensure a coordinated response across Operational Risk and Resilience and must be able to work under pressure at times to handle a wide variety of activities and confidential matters with discretion and attention to detail. The ideal candidate will have a track record of supporting complex change programs, working with diverse, cross-functional teams and facilitating needs from stakeholders across the organization.
The key responsibilities of the role include: • Ability to manage delivery through effective delegation, oversight and stakeholder engagement across a portfolio of programs • Ability to provide high-level assessments of program progress, risks, issues and to facilitate rapid resolution with senior level stakeholders • Ability to communicate effectively to ensure there is a clear and concise understanding of expectations. • Ability to manage and maintain progress across a portfolio of work, and to continuously manage program risks, issues and escalations as needed. • Effectively liaise between cross-functional stakeholders to align around common objectives. • Continuously improve and optimize projects towards efficiency, productivity and quality standards. • Review and maintain program objectives; risks; issues and overall status within approved program structure/technologies • Manage the portfolio with a forward-looking mindset, i.e., proactively anticipate any potential issues, prevent them and/or define pragmatic contingency plans. • Develop and hold accountable a team of program managers to proactively manage dependencies, ‘reusable assets’ (components of the solution that have been already built elsewhere), roadblocks and learning points (i.e., milestones defined to resolve any uncertainty that the team might be dealing with). • Timely escalate and relentlessly pursue resolution of any roadblocks with a clear, end-to-end ownership mindset. • Develop and control deadlines, budgets and activities pertaining to the supported projects. • Engage, supervise and coordinate third party support, including oversight of forecast and budget variance • Demonstrates flexibility and agility to pivot to new and/or changing program priorities • Maintains confidentiality of correspondence records, presentations and reports in a central repository system • Prioritizes and handles multiple projects with accuracy • Lead and motivate team members, providing development opportunities, feedback and supervision appropriate to professional expertise The ideal candidate should have a fair amount of the following: • A College or University degree and deep understanding of project management and portfolio management tools, techniques and methods (i.e., what good looks like), change management principles and how to build high-performing teams • Relevant industry knowledge is required (financial risk, non-financial risk, regulatory and/or compliance)
Technical skills: Outlook, Teams, Microsoft Office 365 suite required (advanced with Excel, Word, SharePoint, PowerPoint, MS Project). • Excellent oral and written communication skills are required • Self-motivated, highly flexible and adaptable to change • Analytical and problem-solving skills are required • Results oriented • Knowledge of and experience supporting programs with enterprise risk management, financial or non-financial risk • Great skills across communication, facilitation, interpersonal, conflict resolution, team building, coaching members on practices, framework, ability to teach/train etc. • Ability to establish trust-based relationships with stakeholders across enterprise, lead them towards common objectives and managing upwards and downwards (e.g., experience with acting as a constructive conduit between business and non-business teams) • Strong problem-solving skills, organizational skills and time management skills. • Openness to self-learning, improvement and experimentation • A minimum of 5 years serving as a Portfolio or Program Manager or a relevant role
About Us: Established in 2004, SPECTRAFORCE® is one of the largest and fastest-growing diversity-owned staffing firms in the US. The growth of our company is a direct result of our global client service delivery model that is powered by our state-of-the-art A.I. proprietary talent acquisition platform, robust ISO 9001:2015/ISO 27001 certified processes, and strong and passionate client engaged teams. We have built our business by providing talent and project-based solutions, including Contingent, Permanent, and Statement of Work (SOW) services to over 140 clients in the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, and India. Key industries that we service include Technology, Financial Services, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Telecom, Retail, Utilities and Transportation. SPECTRAFORCE is built on a concept of “human connection,” defined by our branding attitude of NEWJOBPHORIA®, which is the excitement of bringing joy and freedom to the work lifestyle so our people and clients can reach their highest potential. Learn more at: http://www.spectraforce.com
Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.
Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at LOA@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation.
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LA County, CA Applicant Notice: If you are selected for this position with SPECTRAFORCE, your offer is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of several requirements, including but not limited to, a criminal background check. We consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with all local ordinances and state laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers (FCO) and the California Fair Chance Act (FCA). The background check assessment will consider whether a criminal history could reasonably have a direct, adverse impact on the job-related safety, security, trust, regulatory compliance, or suitability for this role. Such findings may result in withdrawal of a conditional job offer.
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $80.00/hr.
