One of our direct Financial Services client is hiring for the below role in International Regulatory Reporting or compliance implementations, below are the details:
Title: Business Analyst / Project Manager
Location: New York, NY
Duration : 12 months
YOUR ROLE:
Coordinate the end-to-end implementation of regulatory reporting mandates and lead the transition into sustainable post-production support. This role will manage country rollout planning, stakeholder alignment, readiness governance, issue intake, triage, escalation, and root-cause resolution to ensure compliant, timely implementations and stable production operations across, vendor, product, technology, tax, compliance, legal, and country teams.
YOUR CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Coordinate implementation planning for new mandates, including scope, milestones, dependencies, readiness gates, and required stakeholder engagement
- Facilitate discovery workshops and regulatory applicability assessments with country teams, tax, compliance, legal, vendor partners, and product and technology teams
- Manage assigned workstreams through intake, discovery, requirements, design, build coordination, testing support, go-live readiness, hyper care, and transition to run
- Drive cross-functional decision-making on compliance needs, process impacts, operational changes, data requirements, technology dependencies, and vendor or platform implications
- Maintain project-level RAID logs, open-item trackers, decision logs, dependency trackers, action registers, and auditable implementation documentation
- Establish and run the post-production support process, including issue intake, severity classification, ownership routing, escalation paths, and response expectations
- Assess reported production issues, determine business and regulatory impact, identify accountable owners, and coordinate timely resolution across, vendors, product, and technology partners
- Capture lessons learned, recurring issues, root causes, control gaps, and documentation updates to improve future rollouts, production stability, and support readiness
Required qualifications
- 5+ years in program/project management delivering complex, multi-workstream regulatory, tax or enterprise technology change programs.
- Demonstrated experience managing fixed date international regulatory reporting or compliance implementations (e.G., transaction level reporting, statutory/cross border reporting, VAT/GST digital compliance, SOX/financial controls programs) across multiple countries or business units simultaneously.
- Hands on experience with formal program governance tooling: RAID/decision logs, readiness/entry exit criteria, Gantt/critical path tracking (e.G., MS Project, Smartsheet, Jira/Confluence) and executive status reporting.
- Experience managing delivery through third-party advisory/systems integration partners (e.G., Deloitte, other Big 4 or SI firms) and software vendors.
- Working knowledge of finance/tax systems landscapes to test whether reported technical or business status is credible.
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Information Systems or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- PMP, PgMP or equivalent formal program management certification.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience standing up controls/compliance operating models from an early or immature state.
- Agile/Scrum delivery certification in addition to traditional program management credentials.
- Experience presenting and managing escalations with senior stakeholders
EEO:
“Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of – Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.”