Financial Project Manager - Zencon Group

POSITION PURPOSE:

A Project Manager is required to work on a complex project, involving stakeholders from several departments across the front and back offices. The person will work as part of an existing team, within the Fixed Income Transformation Office, supporting and leading small to medium sized projects.
The Project Manager requires a good understanding of an Investment Management firm's front office and have proven experience in delivering projects in the Front Office or Investments preferable in Fixed Income.
The person will also need excellent communication skills, be detailed oriented, very hands on and have experience of leading analysis activities, working collaboratively and producing quality deliverables.

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
Support management of small to medium complex projects and be responsible for undertaking analysis and producing quality analysis documents and work with multiple internal stakeholders.
Develop the project charter, integrated project plan, resource plan and all required project management artifacts.
Work collaboratively, with business teams and stakeholders, to conduct analysis and produce detailed project artifacts including requirements documents and other analysis documentation.
Build excellent working relationships with teams as required.
Lead and facilitate project discussions and meetings, ensuring they are task oriented, and objective driven to ensure the efficient use of everyone's time who are involved.
Evaluate trade-offs between project size and complexity, cost, urgency, risk, and stakeholder value.
Partner with business sponsors to define success metrics and criteria.
Facilitate all operational checkpoint activities throughout the lifecycle of projects.
Assess and resolve all high priority project risks as they are encountered.
Escalate risks and issues to the Transformation Office Fixed Income leadership team as appropriate.
Support management of project according to established methodology and standards.
Continually update relevant business stakeholders of project status and publish project status reports as and when required.
Represent the project in various project governance and inter-department forums.
Define and track project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on an overall and integrated delivery plan.
Ensure the project meets success parameters and business objectives.

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES / SKILLS / QUALIFICATIONS:
Required:
5+ years Asset Management experience.
3+ years Front Office Investment Management project delivery experience.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Excellent problem-solving skills and being able to work with people across multiple locations.
Experience of facilitating meetings with stakeholders to review and solve key issues.
Well organized and self-motivated.
Ability to work well with people with varying technical, business, and cultural backgrounds.
Experience working with senior management in formal presentations, escalations, and issue resolutions.
Strong negotiation and influencing skills.
Excellent experience with Microsoft Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint.
Ability to translate and simplify complex business and technical concepts.

Preferred:
6+ years of Project Management experience.
Lead a team of business analysts, produced business requirements documents and other detailed documentation in a major front office strategic project for Fixed Income.
Led and delivered a major front office strategic project for Fixed Income.
Experience managing senior sponsors 2 years minimum.
Excellent presentation skills.
Soft skills to motivate people and navigate a complex global working environment.
A university degree.
Project management qualification (PMP, Prince II etc.).