Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Aquent is partnering with a leading financial services enterprise to support a major third-party integration initiative. The Project Manager will coordinate cross-functional workstreams, conduct gap and variance analyses, design interim processes, track portfolio synergies, and provide executive-level reporting throughout the organizational transition.
Responsibilities
- Integration Leadership: Drive the execution of the third-party integration program across multiple concurrent workstreams, coordinating activities with critical partners including Vendor Management, Third Party Risk Management, Legal, Procurement, Information Security, Finance, and other risk and control partners
- Develop and maintain integrated project plans, defining milestones, dependencies, risks, and issues, ensuring complete alignment with the overall integration roadmap and leadership direction
- Track and manage interdependencies across all workstreams, proactively escalating risks and decisions as needed to maintain project momentum
- Analysis & Interim State Design: Orchestrate comprehensive risk and process-based gap/variance analyses between current state practices and enterprise requirements
- Support the design and documentation of interim processes and oversight approaches to effectively mitigate identified gaps prior to full integration
- Track interim approaches, approvals, owners, dependencies, and planned sunset timing to ensure a smooth transition
- Portfolio & Synergy Tracking: Coordinate in-depth analysis of the third-party portfolio to support the identification of overlapping or duplicate suppliers, alignment of risk tiering and segmentation, and opportunities for rationalization or consolidation
- Establish and maintain synergy tracking artifacts (e.g., supplier overlaps, cost opportunities, risk reduction indicators), diligently tracking progress against targets set by leadership
- Provide analytical and enablement support; execution authority remains with functional owners
- Stakeholder Engagement & Reporting: Prepare senior management-ready integration reporting, including status updates, key risks and mitigations, dependency and decision tracking, and portfolio and synergy summaries
- Support the preparation of materials for integration governance forums and senior leadership reviews, ensuring clarity and strategic alignment
- Facilitate working sessions and integration checkpoints to maintain consistent alignment across all stakeholders
- Systems, Data & Documentation Coordination: Coordinate activities related to vendor and risk data integration, including inventory alignment and data readiness (hands-on remediation performed by SMEs)
- Support the coordination of activities involving procurement/vendor platforms and related data
- Maintain structured documentation using productivity and project management tools to ensure transparency and continuity throughout the integration process
Skills
- 8+ years of experience as a Project Manager, including substantial support for complex, cross-functional integration initiatives
- Strong experience managing multiple parallel workstreams as a senior individual contributor
- Proven ability to conduct and coordinate gap/variance analysis and support interim operating model design
- Experience working with or adjacent to vendor management, procurement, supplier or third-party portfolios, or risk/compliance-related programs
- Demonstrated ability to produce clear, executive-level integration reporting
- Advanced proficiency in spreadsheet, note-taking, and enterprise project management tools
- Post-acquisition or large-scale business integration experience
- Exposure to third-party risk management concepts (in-depth SME knowledge not required)
- Familiarity with similar procurement/vendor platforms
- Experience tracking integration synergies (cost, efficiency, risk reduction)
- Financial services or other regulated industry experience
Benefits
- Eligible talent get access to subsidized health, vision, and dental plans.
- Eligible talent get access to paid sick leave.
- Eligible talent get access to retirement plans with a match.
- Free online training through Aquent Gymnasium.
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