Hobbs Madison is a leading consulting firm focused on bridging the gap between business strategy and technology execution. We combine deep technical and management expertise to solve complex challenges, improve capabilities, and drive competitive growth. Our clients include some of the largest banking, insurance and investment firms in the U.S.
We are looking for a dynamic Project Manager specializing in Mergers and Acquisitions in the Financial Industry. This position offers tremendous growth and experience opportunities as you will be exposed to multiple M&A projects within a financial institution. This is a Remote, Full-Time position with the possibility of some travel.
You will work directly with Project Teams, Program Managers, as well as the business Change Manager and project sponsors to ensure successful delivery of the project(s) to ensure their interests and business objectives are met. You will be responsible for the successful conversion of Retail Banking projects (Teller, Sales and Service, Consumer Lending, Digital Banking, Mobile Banking, etc.

• Providing overall M&A project planning, project timeline, and issue monitoring and resolution
• Working with M&A Business Analyst, create M&A Playbooks for the overall engagement and each workstream across the banking centers, contact centers and the operational and administrative teams to ensure all process steps, dependencies and interdependencies across systems and business units for the conversion implementation are addressed.
• Enforcing M&A Governance rules which involve working with the overarching structure, processes and procedures to accomplish objectives including metrics of success and deliverables
• Working with other project managers and the Program Manager to resolve issues across project teams, individual project stakeholders, program stakeholders and sponsors
• Coordinating resources within project teams
• Ensuring synergies between workstreams are realized
• Remove impediments to allow the project team to meet deliverables timeframe
• Monitoring project expenditures and ensuring that the project realizes its financial & business benefits.
• Managing risk and taking corrective measures to resolve issues
• Managing communication across all stakeholders, third-party contributors and project team members
• Maintaining the project documentation, including all plans, timelines, documentation and briefs/reports
• Ensuring the execution of all project tasks is carried out on schedule
• Providing contingency planning and risk mitigation
• Assuring contract compliance
• Providing executive communication and materials such as status reports and/or presentations on status, issues, remediation activities, and timeline impact, if any

About You

• 5+ years of experience as an M&A Project Manager with a Financial Services provider or consulting firm in the financial services industry
• Excellent communication skills for business interviewing and collaborative design sessions with client teams.
• Strong Power Point, Word, Excel and Visio skills.
• Experienced working with PMO software
• Experience with Change Controls
• Experience with process reengineering
• Skill with Business Process assessment, current state/target state analysis and mapping
• Experience with bank related system conversions affecting branches, contact centers, digital banking and operations.
• Working knowledge of Share Point, and Jira.
• Working knowledge of M&A management applications e.g., Cutover
• Experience working with converting retail applications during M&A activities