Senior Project Manager / Programme Manager
This career opportunity provides the prospect to work for a well respected and successful technology vendor consultancy, which is expanding their European operation with the appointment of a Senior Project Manager for their capital markets technology division. This is a senior level project leadership position, handling the larger and more complex assignments for investment technology enablement (primarily new system implementations), to ensure successful delivery within the agreed budgets and timescales. With a growing company, this is also a great chance to influence and further enhance internal project management processes procedures to ensure a robust project delivery operation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Accurately estimate, build, agree, maintain and communicate multi-phase, multi-tier, multi-party project plans with mixed discipline project teams comprised of Internal, Client and other 3rd Party personnel.
- To provide direction and leadership to the Client project teams, driving and managing projects with medium to high business complexity and significant cultural challenges to a successful completion.
- To ensure consistency between Client Proposals, Contracts, Project Scope and Project Definition Documents in terms of effort, resources, costs, timescales, deliverables, responsibilities, milestones and payment terms
- Managing, controlling and monitoring project risks, progress against time and budget.
Required skills and experience:
- Must have successful project leadership experience managing enterprise software implementations to time and budget within the investment banking securities industry. Doesn’t matter if this experience has been gained with front, middle and/or back office systems, or whether for sell side or buy side clients.
- This project experience will have been gained working for another software company such as like a Sungard, Misys, Smartsream, Dion, DST, Linedata, Thomson Reuters etc etc.
- Must have operated with clients at senior management level and able to represent the company and the client diplomatically and effectively.
- Professional certifications are beneficial but not a pre-requisite (PMI, PRINCE 2 etc)
- Must be happy with some travel.
Excellent opportunity to play a lead role with a dynamic and fast growing market leader in investment technology, to broaden your investment business and systems project experience, and help ensure continued success of implementations as the company grows.
Remuneration: High, commensurate with experience.
Key words: project manager, project management, project director, program manager, programme manager, management consultancy, consulting, software, technology, financial markets, bank, banking, investment, asset management, investment banking.
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