Associate Vice President, Senior Project Manager Greater Milan, Italy Area

The Company is seeking a Senior Project Manager, Assistant Vice President, to lead the end-to-end delivery of complex strategic, regulatory, risk-remediation, and transformation initiatives. Responsibilities include defining project scope, objectives, plans, deliverables, resources, and success measures; coordinating dependencies across business, technology, risk, control, and global teams; and establishing effective governance and reporting. The role also involves managing risks and issues, aligning stakeholders, securing timely decisions, and formalizing approvals, closure, and handover. The successful candidate will maintain auditable project records, support demand and portfolio management, and promote project management best practices and continuous improvement. Candidates should have at least 10 years of relevant project management experience, ideally in banking, asset servicing, or a similar field, and a bachelor’s or master’s degree in economics, business administration, engineering, or a related discipline. Experience delivering complex, multi-location projects in matrix organizations is required; regulatory, remediation, or transformation experience in financial services is preferred. Applicants should bring strong planning, communication, stakeholder management, critical-thinking, and leadership skills, along with working knowledge of predictive, agile, and hybrid delivery approaches. Project management certification, proficiency with Microsoft 365 and project tools, responsible familiarity with generative AI, and fluency in Italian and English are required or advantageous; knowledge of banking services, European regulation, and risk, audit, or regulatory functions is also beneficial.

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