Director, Program Management

About Cornerstone Advisors

Cornerstone Advisors helps financial services clients improve profitability and performance by developing more meaningful business strategies, making smarter technology decisions, and strategically re-engineering critical processes by geeking out on knowledge, living in the grit, and speaking plainly. Were focused on accelerating company growth while continuing to provide our clients with superior solutions. Our entrepreneurial, fast-paced, collaborative team provides high-quality services with a laser focus on measurement. Our philosophy is that you cant improve what you dont measure.

We are seeking an experienced Director of Program Management to join the Technology group within Cornerstone Advisors. This is a fully remote position and will require up to 50% travel.

What You'll be doing

• Support bank client transformation, merger integration, process improvement and/or system conversion programs/projects from scoping and gathering requirements through deployment for an end-to-end project or specific area of a project  
• Build outcome-based business cases and roadmaps to help clients prioritize and plan strategic initiatives
• Define business, customer experience, and system functional and technical requirements, and verify that the requirements are aligned with business needs and objectives
• Identify, understand and effectively manage milestones and dependencies across multiple stakeholders ensuring clear accountabilities and shared understanding of impact
• Take responsibility for end-to-end solution delivery, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality project deliverables through effective team communications and focus on quality
• Work to ensure that projects and programs are proceeding according to scope, schedule, budget and quality standards
• Report on project success criteria results, metrics, test and deployment activities
• Communicate effectively and frequently with clients; be responsive and available to client concerns, issues, feedback and questions

What You'll bring

• Knowledge of digital, lending, payments or core vendors in US financial institutions
• Experience in bank transformation, process improvement, a system conversion or merger integration programs/projects
• Experience developing and delivering presentations to bank management teams
• Experience managing project budgets and work plans
• Experience in multiple programs and portfolio governance approaches such as Agile, PMI, SAFe, Scrum, and Waterfall
• Experience in PPM tools such as Clarity, MS Project, Planview, Smartsheet 
• Strong leadership, time management, facilitation, and organizational skills
• Availability to work independently and take the initiative to solve problems.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills

Education and Experience

• Bachelors degree
• At least 4 years of experience in program/portfolio management, Business Transformation Office (BTO), and/or Project Management Office (PMO) operations in a US financial institution or 4 years of transformation, merger integration, and/or program management consulting to US financial institutions
• Experience with serving on a transformation or merger integration project for a US financial institution

To apply, please submit a full application, including a resume, and a brief cover letter with salary requirements.

Background screening, including past employment, education, and references required.

Our firm provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, our firm complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.