Project Manager
The Macquarie Bank, Banking and Financial Services Group (BFS) is the primary relationship manager for Macquarie's retail client base in Australia, New Zealand, Asia, North America and Europe. Products and services include wealth management, stockbroking and retail lending and banking solutions such as residential and commercial mortgages, investment lending, personal loans, credit cards and relationship banking to businesses and professionals.
Within BFS s seeking a Project Manager to join the Product Technology Platforms team within Macquarie Adviser Services (MAS). MAS manage relationships with external financial intermediaries and institutions and provide sales, service, product manufacturing and management of in-house and external products. This includes Cash, Mortgages, Insurance, Retail Superannuation and Wealth Platforms (including Macquarie Wrap and Trading). These businesses encompass investment, online administration and portfolio reporting services to retail clients, financial advisers and financial institutions.
Macquarie Wrap is a provider of administration (platform) solutions to financial advisers and institutions. It specialises in superannuation, pension and investment platform services for back office and practice management needs. The Wrap platform is an online service and is heavily reliant on technology. The platform currently administers over 90,000 accounts covering managed funds, direct equities, cash, term deposits, fixed interest and other asset classes.
Due to the continued growth of the platform businesses, an opportunity exists for a self motivated Project Manager to join the well established and successful Wrap Solutions team. The projects delivered by the team will enhance the platform to drive growth in new client segments and meet the growing needs of the existing client base.
As an integral part of the Project team you will be responsible for:
- Defining new projects, including functional scope, process and system impact analysis, resource planning, financials, governance models, etc
- Managing projects end-to-end from the proposal / concept phase to implementation across the business as well as IT. Project management activities include progress management, risk and issues management, resource tracking, financials tracking, stakeholder management, and associated status reporting
- Working closely with IT to ensure the systems solution is in line with business needs and strategic growth
- Managing vendors as required
- Contributing to the continuous improvement of project management practices in the team, including mentoring team members, and creation and use of tools to assist project management
The following technical skills are required:
- Project Management experience across all phases of the software development life cycle
- Hands-on track record of successfully delivering projects with budgets in the order of $2+ million
- Trading and Financial Services experience
The following technical skills are desirable:
- Experience with systems and processes used for:
- wealth management products and
- administering managed funds and listed securities
The following professional skills are required:
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to tailor communications to both business and IT staff at all levels from senior executive to professional level
- Ability to run effective meetings and ensure that all parties reach consensus
- Ability to lead a team
- Proven experience in stakeholder management, including both business and IT, and up to senior executive management
- Ability to handle multiple tasks and prioritise these effectively
- Working to a deadline and handling pressure
- Strong problem solving aptitude
- An enthusiastic and inquisitive nature with an attention to detail
- Demonstrate dedication by taking ownership of tasks which may not always fit the core job specification
- Demonstrate creativity and an ability to consider the big picture
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Advertised:
3 Jul 2013 Aus. Eastern Standard Time
Closing date:
3 Aug 2013 5:00pm Aus. Eastern Standard Time
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