Project Manager Risk & Independence

The Risk & Independence Project Manager is responsible for delivering enterprise initiatives that strengthen professional independence, risk management, regulatory compliance, and associated business processes and technology capabilities. The role will partner with Risk & Independence leaders, Legal, Compliance, Technology, Data, PMO, business stakeholders, and third parties to translate policy and regulatory requirements into executable projects, controls, workflows, and measurable outcomes.

This Manager-level role combines disciplined project delivery with strong governance, stakeholder coordination, and change leadership. The Project Manager will manage the integrated plan, facilitate decisions across business and technology teams, maintain traceability to requirements and controls, and support sustainable transition into business ownership and operations.

Project Scope: Risk & Independence Transformation

· Lead end-to-end delivery of Risk & Independence initiatives, including process, policy, data, controls, technology, and operating-model changes.

· Coordinate current-state assessment, requirements definition, solution design, implementation, adoption, and transition to sustained operations.

· Align project outcomes with Risk & Independence priorities, regulatory obligations, enterprise risk standards, technology roadmaps, and PMO governance.

· Maintain appropriate confidentiality and information-handling discipline for sensitive risk, compliance, personnel, client, and engagement data.

Business Process, Policy & Control Enablement

· Partner with Risk & Independence subject-matter experts to translate policies and regulatory requirements into clear business requirements, workflows, controls, role expectations, and evidence needs.

· Coordinate design and improvement of processes such as independence confirmations, conflict checks, restricted-entity or relationship management, exception handling, approvals, monitoring, and remediation, as applicable to the project.

· Ensure documented requirements, decisions, control objectives, acceptance criteria, and implementation evidence remain traceable and audit-ready.

· Identify process gaps, manual dependencies, data-quality concerns, and control risks; drive ownership and resolution through structured governance.

Project & Delivery Management

· Own the integrated project plan, milestones, workstreams, dependencies, critical path, and delivery commitments.

· Coordinate cross-functional contributors across U.S., LATAM, EMEA, GDC, and vendor teams as applicable.

· Run working sessions, decision forums, status reviews, and steering updates; document decisions and drive timely follow-through.

· Manage scope, schedule, resources, deliverables, and quality across the complete project lifecycle.

Technology, Data & Integration Coordination

· Coordinate with product owners, architects, engineers, security, data, testing, and operations teams to deliver technology-enabled Risk & Independence capabilities.

· Manage requirements and dependencies involving workflow platforms, case management, reporting, identity or access, data integrations, records, and supporting enterprise systems.

· Ensure data ownership, definitions, quality rules, migration, reconciliation, access, retention, and reporting requirements are incorporated into the delivery plan.

· Coordinate testing strategy, test evidence, defect resolution, release readiness, cutover, stabilization, and operational handoff.

Stakeholder Alignment & Change Adoption

· Build alignment among Risk & Independence leadership, Legal, Compliance, Technology, PMO, business sponsors, process owners, and regional stakeholders.

· Coordinate stakeholder analysis, communications, training, office hours, readiness assessments, deployment support, and adoption measurement.

· Clarify decision rights, ownership, and escalation paths where policy, process, control, or technology requirements intersect.

· Partner with business and technology owners to define the sustainable operating model, support model, governance cadence, and continuous-improvement backlog.

Financial & Resource Management

· Manage the project budget, forecast, resource plan, burn rate, and delivery variance in accordance with PMO standards.

· Coordinate resource demand and capacity across business, technology, GDC, and third-party workstreams.

· Support business cases, investment decisions, vendor planning, benefits tracking, and value-realization reporting.

Risk, Issue & Dependency Management

· Maintain transparent RAID reporting and proactively manage regulatory, policy, control, data, technology, adoption, and cross-functional dependencies.

· Drive mitigation and recovery plans, escalate decision points, and track actions to closure with clearly accountable owners.

· Identify implementation risks that could affect compliance, control effectiveness, auditability, user adoption, or operational sustainability.

Governance, Reporting & Controls

· Produce standardized status reporting covering milestones, scope, finances, resource health, risks, decisions, controls, readiness, adoption, and outcomes.

· Prepare materials for stage gates, steering committees, risk or compliance forums, portfolio reviews, and leadership updates.

· Maintain complete project records and decision history suitable for management review, internal audit, or regulatory examination.

· Define project success measures and handoff criteria for transition from implementation into steady-state ownership and governance.

Skills

· English B2+

· Strong enterprise project or program management experience, preferably in risk, compliance, legal, regulatory, governance, or business-process transformation.

· Demonstrated ability to translate policy, regulatory, control, and business requirements into executable plans and technology-enabled solutions.

· Experience managing complex, cross-functional initiatives involving process design, data, integrations, testing, change adoption, and operational readiness.

· Working knowledge of governance, risk and compliance concepts, control design, evidence management, issue remediation, and audit readiness.

· Familiarity with ServiceNow, Azure DevOps, Jira, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Power BI, GRC platforms, workflow tools, or comparable delivery and reporting solutions.

· Experience coordinating vendors and geographically distributed delivery teams, including GDC resources.

· Strong executive communication, facilitation, negotiation, decision tracking, and change leadership skills.

· Ability to handle sensitive information, work through ambiguity, establish structure, and drive accountability without direct authority.

Education / Professional Experience / Qualifications

· Bachelor’s degree in Business, Technology, Risk Management, Finance, Accounting, Legal Studies, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.

· 7–10 years of project or program management experience in an enterprise environment, with responsibility for complex cross-functional initiatives.

· Experience delivering risk, independence, compliance, regulatory, governance, legal-technology, or operating-model transformation initiatives.

· Experience working within formal PMO governance, financial controls, executive reporting, and audit or compliance-oriented environments.

· PMP, PRINCE2, Certified ScrumMaster, SAFe, Prosci, CRISC, CISA, or a comparable project, risk, audit, or change certification is preferred but not required.