IT Project Manager - ETRM / Commodities - New York

IT Project Manager - Energy / Commodities - New YorkOur client is a major commodity trader based in New York. We are recruiting a Project Manager with strong experience in commodity trading and financial services (ideally with middle and back-office exposure). The role requires strong project management fundamentals, a pragmatic hands-on approach, and the ability to deliver end-to-end in a lean, fast-paced environment.Key Responsibilities:• Own end-to-end project delivery from initiation through closure, including scope, plan, schedule, budget, quality, risks, issues, dependencies• Mobilise projects quickly by confirming outcomes and success measures, establishing governance and RACI• Build and maintain strong relationships across Trading, Operations, Risk, Finance, Business Change and all relevant IT teams• Manage delivery to plan, including resource coordination, dependency management, RAID management, budget tracking, and stakeholder communication• Maintain a single source of truth for project status, with succinct, executive-ready reporting and a 'one team, one voice' approach.• Surface risks and issues early, supported by options, facts and data-led recommendations• Control project financials, including forecasting and tracking costs and benefits, managing change impacts, and keeping spend aligned to approved plan.• Manage third-party vendors and delivery partners, including statements of work, acceptance criteria, milestone tracking, deliverables and change control.• Lead delivery teams and ways of working by setting pace and standards, coaching contributors, and modelling pragmatic project management practice.Experience:• Significant IT project management experience, ideally 15+ years, with a strong track record in commodity trading and/or financial services environments• Good understanding of trade lifecycle processes, with strong exposure to middle- and back-office functions (Risk, Finance, Treasury, Settlements, Physical Operations).• Good understanding of core IT trading applications disciplines (ETRM) / exposure to at least one ETRM (Endur, Allegro, Aspect, custom build)• Experience leading complex projects in global environments / diverse stakeholders• Experience managing external software vendors and delivery partners to firm outcomes in lean, hands-on environments.• Experience delivering projects in Agile environments• Experience using Jira for project deliveryEssential Skills:• Strong project management discipline across planning, scheduling, RAID, dependency management, financial control and change control.• Autonomous and outcome-focused, comfortable working in ambiguity and applying best practice pragmatically rather than as box-ticking.• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills, with the ability to manage demanding stakeholders across multiple locations and functions.• Executive-ready communication skills, with concise written and verbal updates tailored to business, IT and senior leadership audiences.• Confident designing and facilitating effective Steering Committees and working with senior stakeholders, including CIO, CRO, CFO and Heads of Function.• Calm under pressure / strong team player / good ethics• Willing and able to be hands-on when required, including support for analysis, testing, UAT• Skilled user of Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Project and Microsoft Office tools, including Excel, Word and PowerPoint.PRINCE2 or PMP qualificatiion