IT Project Manager-Treasury / FX / MM / Sungard – immediate recruitment

The Company

Interim IT Project Manager - Treasury / FX / MM / Sungard - immediate start

Robert Half Technology is exclusively seeking a Senior Project Manager for a leading entrant to the commercial and retail banking space. Having grown exponentially with the backing of leading private equity players, a high-calibre Project Manager, who is a real subject matter expert in in the Treasury space is urgently required to deliver this significant initiative for our client. The project is at early stages and will cover front to back - with an emphasis more on middle and back office - for FX, MM, IR Swaps and Options, Bonds (including Bond Options) and ABS.

The Role

Key responsibilities:
- Facilitating the gathering of business change requirements for definition as well as the specification of functional and non-functional systems requirements from the traders in the Treasury division as well as risk and back office.
- Planning, estimating a portfolio of work streams and tracking delivery against budget and timescales from end to end from concept through testing and go live.
- Managing user expectations throughout the project life cycle and influencing through the matrix to ensure resources are in situ for delivery.
- Managing the vendor through the delivery life cycle.

Key requirements:
It is essential that the Project Manager is/brings:
- A Treasury Subject Matter Expert including - e.g FX, Money Markets, Swaps, Fixed Income/ Bonds, Repos, Options etc both from a process view and also with respect to the major technology platforms in this space and their integration with upstream and downstream applications.
- Substantial experience of project management including the full IT systems development life cycle
- Significant experience of implementing a treasury technology package solution ideally Sungard Ambit
- Experience of managing systems integration and acceptance testing.
- Experience of managing in a matrix environment and influencing

The role may require travel to IT and operational centres in the UK.

Salary Benefits

£600-700/day

As the role is urgent, only candidates who are immediately available are being considered.

Interim IT Project Manager - Treasury / FX / MM / Sungard
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