eCommerce Project Manager (greenfield), Trading Platform Project Manager, Leading Investment Bank recruitment

eCommerce Project Manager (greenfield), Trading Platform Project Manager, Leading Investment Bank

Introduction: Montash Associates have been engaged by a well-reputed investment bank to assist in attracting a senior project manager, to join an award winning eCommerce technology team to manage a brand new project to add new asset classes and other functionality to an industry leading trading system.

The Organisation: A leading investment bank, and one of the pioneers of cutting-edge eCommerce trading systems.

The Team: A Front office technology team made up of .Net developers, business analysts and software testers.

The Project: This bank has spent the last couple of years building a trading system to be used both by internal users and external customers, mainly covering FX options. New applications and tools must now be created, in order to allow different asset classes to be traded on the system.

The Role: The successful candidate will be responsible for:-

•                     Project organization, governance set-up, plans monitoring, progress reporting.

•                     Running a workstream which will deliver one or more projects.

•                     Dedicated contact for business stakeholders.

•                     Define, with the sponsor, the clear priorities based on business value and have the team deliver the highest value user stories first to improve ROI.

More specifically, the Project Manager’s role will be to:

•                     Be accountable for the project budget and expense.

•                     Be responsible for initializing the project

•                     Responsible for project organization, plans, monitoring, progress reporting and running the project on a day-to-day basis within specified quality, time and cost constraints.

•                     Identify and manage risks and issues arising

•                     Synchronize and coordinate all dependencies.

•                     Prioritizes the users stories with the sponsor to ensure business value and interest are included in the release.

•                     Be accountable for the project monitoring, execution and control, especially toward the sponsor until the project closing.

•                     Reports project progress to different stakeholders, business and program manager.

•                     Ensure and validate the SDLC deliverables.

•                     Be responsible for ensuring consistency between deliverables (specifications) and delivered product (application).

•                     Facilitate the communication between the different project stakeholders.

The Skills: Essential:-

Agile Project Management experience.

Extensive financial product experience

Proven experience of end-to-end, Greenfield Project Management in a trading technology environment.

The Package: Only the very strongest project managers will be considered; this is a team with business buy-in and, therefore, plenty of budget. Base salary will go as high as £100,000, and Bonus is uncapped, so the sky is the limit. A full benefits package is also offered.

Contact: If this opportunity is of interest, please do not hesitate to contact Paul Kirtley on 0207 749 6066, or email paulk@montash.com

Keywords: Project manager, PM, eCommerce Project manager, Front Office Project manager, eCommerce, London, Investment Bank