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GBM - Public Dept-London-Vice President-Project ManagementLondon·United Kingdom·Vice President

ExperiencedNo visa sponsorship
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at Goldman Sachs

Bulge Bracket Investment Banks

Posted 12 days ago

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**GBM - Public Dept-London-Vice President-Project Management**: Lead strategic cross-divisional projects in Global Banking & Markets. Drive complex initiatives from inception to completion, managing risks, budgets, and stakeholder communication. Requires 7-12 years' experience in project/program management within finance. Must have strong leadership skills, strategic mindset, and ability to influence stakeholders. Bachelor's degree necessary. Based in London.

Compensation
Not specified GBP

Currency: £ (GBP)

City
London
Country
United Kingdom

Full Job Description

GBM - Public Dept-London-Vice President-Project ManagementLondon, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Opportunity Overview
CORPORATE TITLEVice President
OFFICE LOCATION(S)London
JOB FUNCTIONProject Management
DIVISIONGlobal Banking & Markets

Job Description

Our core value is building strong relationships with institutional clients, corporations, financial service providers, and fund managers. We help them buy and sell financial products on exchanges around the world, raise funding, and manage risk. This is a dynamic, entrepreneurial team with a passion for the markets and associated client experience, with individuals who thrive in fast-paced, changing environments and are energized by a bustling trading floor.

Global Banking & Markets: Change Management

The Global Banking & Markets Change Management Team is searching for dedicated individuals who thrive in a collaborative and challenging environment to join our team. Global Change Managers serve as program or project managers on high priority initiatives within the Global Banking & Markets Division. You will work alongside front to back teams to ensure solutions are designed and implemented across the portfolio. You will leverage your technical expertise and project management skills to influence and drive working groups to deliver these complex projects on time, within budget and with high quality.

HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL

  • Lead complex and strategic cross divisional initiatives in partnership with front to back business teams including product, design, engineering and operations teams
  • Understand and articulate how projects and benefits fit into both the program and broader firm strategy with the ability to influence and shape this
  • Recognize, report, and escalate project risks to senior partners; oversee remediation of risks raised
  • Provide transparency and progress of projects, issues, timelines, and budgets by running governance forums with senior GBM leadership
  • Identify and remove impediments at program level, leveraging stakeholders, sponsorship, and other relationships to do so
  • Work with product owners to build the strategic vision and forward-looking roadmap and refine the backlog of demand, while balancing competing priorities
  • Define quality assurance and testing approaches, provide coaching to the team on testing best practices and develop migration strategies for post testing

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE WE'RE LOOKING FOR

  • Bachelor's Degree
  • 7-12 years relevant experience, in a business analysis / project / program management function; must have Finance Industry experience.
  • Strong project management skills; Proficient in managing the full front to back lifecycle of a project including scoping, defining a plan and deliverables, risk and issue management, status reporting and driving delivery
  • Proven track record of delivering results in a cross functional team setting, on time and to budget
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, written and oral; confident in interaction with senior stakeholders
  • Extensive leadership experience demonstrated through empowerment, situational awareness, increasing transparency and conflict resolution on a large-scale program
  • Ability to engage with and influence stakeholders outside their direct control
  • Strategic thinker who can identify cross functional issues, provide innovative solutions, and communicate the implications of solutions across existing processes, systems and teams, e.g. costs, risk, service
  • Must be hands-on, able and willing to work with teams while coaching them to reach efficient and effective performance levels

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Related experience in technology strategy or in a client service or business function and / or management consulting
  • Core knowledge base of Global Banking & Markets
  • Demonstrate understanding of Financial Services & Operations processes and procedures
  • Knowledge of automated testing tools and frameworks
  • Experience with tools like JIRA and Confluence or similar applications
  • Knowledge of OKR frameworks and roadmaps
  • Working knowledge of using AI to gain efficiencies within financial services

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.

We're committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html. The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2025. All rights reserved.

 

We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits
Healthcare & Medical Insurance
We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.
Holiday & Vacation Policies
We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.
Financial Wellness & Retirement
We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees priorities.
Health Services
We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.
Fitness
To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).
Child Care & Family Care
We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.
Benefits at Goldman Sachs
Read more about the full suite of class-leading benefits our firm has to offer.
Learn More

GBM - Public Dept-London-Vice President-Project ManagementLondon·United Kingdom·Vice President

Compensation

Not specified GBP

City: London

Country: United Kingdom

Goldman Sachs logo
Bulge Bracket Investment Banks

12 days ago

No clicks

at Goldman Sachs

ExperiencedNo visa sponsorship

**GBM - Public Dept-London-Vice President-Project Management**: Lead strategic cross-divisional projects in Global Banking & Markets. Drive complex initiatives from inception to completion, managing risks, budgets, and stakeholder communication. Requires 7-12 years' experience in project/program management within finance. Must have strong leadership skills, strategic mindset, and ability to influence stakeholders. Bachelor's degree necessary. Based in London.

Full Job Description

GBM - Public Dept-London-Vice President-Project ManagementLondon, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Opportunity Overview
CORPORATE TITLEVice President
OFFICE LOCATION(S)London
JOB FUNCTIONProject Management
DIVISIONGlobal Banking & Markets

Job Description

Our core value is building strong relationships with institutional clients, corporations, financial service providers, and fund managers. We help them buy and sell financial products on exchanges around the world, raise funding, and manage risk. This is a dynamic, entrepreneurial team with a passion for the markets and associated client experience, with individuals who thrive in fast-paced, changing environments and are energized by a bustling trading floor.

Global Banking & Markets: Change Management

The Global Banking & Markets Change Management Team is searching for dedicated individuals who thrive in a collaborative and challenging environment to join our team. Global Change Managers serve as program or project managers on high priority initiatives within the Global Banking & Markets Division. You will work alongside front to back teams to ensure solutions are designed and implemented across the portfolio. You will leverage your technical expertise and project management skills to influence and drive working groups to deliver these complex projects on time, within budget and with high quality.

HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL

  • Lead complex and strategic cross divisional initiatives in partnership with front to back business teams including product, design, engineering and operations teams
  • Understand and articulate how projects and benefits fit into both the program and broader firm strategy with the ability to influence and shape this
  • Recognize, report, and escalate project risks to senior partners; oversee remediation of risks raised
  • Provide transparency and progress of projects, issues, timelines, and budgets by running governance forums with senior GBM leadership
  • Identify and remove impediments at program level, leveraging stakeholders, sponsorship, and other relationships to do so
  • Work with product owners to build the strategic vision and forward-looking roadmap and refine the backlog of demand, while balancing competing priorities
  • Define quality assurance and testing approaches, provide coaching to the team on testing best practices and develop migration strategies for post testing

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE WE'RE LOOKING FOR

  • Bachelor's Degree
  • 7-12 years relevant experience, in a business analysis / project / program management function; must have Finance Industry experience.
  • Strong project management skills; Proficient in managing the full front to back lifecycle of a project including scoping, defining a plan and deliverables, risk and issue management, status reporting and driving delivery
  • Proven track record of delivering results in a cross functional team setting, on time and to budget
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, written and oral; confident in interaction with senior stakeholders
  • Extensive leadership experience demonstrated through empowerment, situational awareness, increasing transparency and conflict resolution on a large-scale program
  • Ability to engage with and influence stakeholders outside their direct control
  • Strategic thinker who can identify cross functional issues, provide innovative solutions, and communicate the implications of solutions across existing processes, systems and teams, e.g. costs, risk, service
  • Must be hands-on, able and willing to work with teams while coaching them to reach efficient and effective performance levels

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Related experience in technology strategy or in a client service or business function and / or management consulting
  • Core knowledge base of Global Banking & Markets
  • Demonstrate understanding of Financial Services & Operations processes and procedures
  • Knowledge of automated testing tools and frameworks
  • Experience with tools like JIRA and Confluence or similar applications
  • Knowledge of OKR frameworks and roadmaps
  • Working knowledge of using AI to gain efficiencies within financial services

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.

We're committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html. The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2025. All rights reserved.

 

We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits
Healthcare & Medical Insurance
We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.
Holiday & Vacation Policies
We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.
Financial Wellness & Retirement
We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees priorities.
Health Services
We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.
Fitness
To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).
Child Care & Family Care
We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.
Benefits at Goldman Sachs
Read more about the full suite of class-leading benefits our firm has to offer.
Learn More