Senior Project Manager recruitment
Financial Markets eCommerce has defined an exciting strategy and aggressive 3 year product roadmap. Phases 1 of the FX Rates programmes for Foreign Exchange and Interest Rates Swaps respectively complete at the end of 2011. The Financial Markets eCommerce system developments team is a specialist team of individuals hired to design, develop and enhance proprietary systems that will differentiate the bank in it’s core markets. eCommerce systems will be aimed at numerous customer markets including:- external customers via the internet, sophisticated customers via API/point-to-point connectivity, internal users trading on behalf of customers around the globe and finally connectivity into multi-dealer platforms.
This role is an exciting opportunity to be part a large multi-asset ecommerce trading system development team within a Greenfield environment that is distributed over Singapore and London. The successful candidate will be an experienced project manager with track record in managing multiple concurrent, complex projects from investment banking. The successful candidate is expected to:
- Co-ordinate between front office, development teams, technology service providers, management and test teams to deliver solutions and environments to tight timescales
- Have a structured approach to software delivery within Financial Markets
- Align with the development of ecommerce products
- Participate in ecommerce system requirements gathering
- Managing dependencies of all technical deliverables
- Engage QA teams to enforce rigorous quality standards
- Deliver structured development program complying with bank’s standard methodology
- Advocate best practice release and change management practices for developments consisting of multiple streams.
This is a key role which will play pivotal management role in the programme.
Responsibilities of the role:
- Own and manage the project plan, financials, projections, issue/dependency tracking, resourcing and timescales
- Advocate delivery excellence, minimising delivery risk
- Follow the bank’s development methodology and drive enhancements to it where appropriate
- Advocate delivery excellence, ensuring application release quality
- Build relationships with key stakeholders: Business, Fellow developments managers inside and outside of FM, Infrastructure teams etc.
- Timely and clear communications to the stakeholder community
Qualifications Skills
- Rigorous approach to management of development methodology
- Proven skills in co-ordination, staff management and leadership working with vendors and internal teams
- Proven experience in co-ordination of many dependencies and multiple demanding stakeholders in a complex, large-scale deployment environment
- Proven experience of working in the Financial Markets environment with exposure to Fixed Income business (FX, Bonds and IRS)
- Prior experience of managing $15m - $20m projects with teams of upto 30-40 FTEs.
- Knowledge of all aspects of software design and development
- Knowledge of all aspects of project, service and financial management.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Desirable but not Essential
- Understanding of ecommerce product workflow across front office and middle office tier
- Understanding of price discovery, deal acceptance, and position management approaches across the Fixed Income OTC product space, including IRS, Bonds and FX, is desirable.
This is a very good opportunity to work in a strong global financial institution and develop your skill base in both technology and business. Please send your resume in Word format to Shyly Pillay at spillay@ikasinternational.com and put Senior Project Manager - Ecommerce the subject header.