Senior Project Manager

Job Description

Senior Business Analyst / Project Manager – Digital Assets

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Location: New York, NY

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Work Model: Hybrid

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Employment Type: W2 Contract

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Initial Duration: 3 months, with potential extensions based on ongoing project needs

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Pay Range: $86–$92/hour W2

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Calculated Hire is seeking a Senior Business Analyst / Project Manager to support a large financial-services organization within an emerging digital-assets and capital-markets initiative.

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This individual will work across business, operations, technology, risk, compliance, legal, and other partners to help translate strategic priorities into executable requirements, project plans, operating processes, controls, and implementation workstreams.

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The ideal candidate brings strong financial-services or capital-markets experience, hands-on BA/PM execution skills, and the ability to independently drive complex initiatives in a highly regulated environment.

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Responsibilities

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• Lead requirements gathering and analysis across business and technology stakeholders.
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• Translate business objectives into functional requirements, process flows, project plans, and implementation activities.
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• Develop and maintain project roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, risks, and key decisions.
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• Support current-state and future-state process analysis and operating-model development.
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• Partner with product and technology teams throughout solution design and delivery.
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• Coordinate UAT, business testing, defect resolution, implementation readiness, and post-launch activities.
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• Identify process, technology, operational, and control gaps and drive resolution across stakeholders.
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• Manage multiple workstreams and cross-functional dependencies in a fast-paced environment.
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• Prepare clear project documentation and updates for senior stakeholders.
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• Independently drive assigned initiatives from initial discovery through execution.
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Required Qualifications

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• Strong Business Analyst, Project Manager, Product Owner, or related experience within financial services.
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• Experience supporting complex capital-markets, banking, investment-management, or financial-technology initiatives.
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• Hands-on experience with requirements gathering, functional documentation, process mapping, and project planning.
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• Experience with UAT, testing, implementation, and production-readiness activities.
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• Strong stakeholder-management skills across business and technology teams.
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• Demonstrated ability to work independently within complex and evolving programs.
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• Experience working in highly regulated environments.
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Preferred Qualifications

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• Experience with capital-markets operations, securities, payments, custody, settlement, collateral, liquidity, or related financial infrastructure.
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• Exposure to digital assets, tokenization, blockchain/DLT, or emerging financial technologies.
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• Experience with Jira, Confluence, Visio, Smartsheet, MS Project, or similar tools.
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• Experience within a large bank, broker-dealer, asset manager, custodian, or other regulated financial institution.
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