Hybrid Senior Project Manager – Contract

at Insight Investment

• Job title: Senior Project Manager – Contract
• Job type: Contract
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Senior Project Manager at Insight Investment responsible for managing project initiatives with technology product teams. Leading migration and delivery efforts within an agile framework.

Responsibilities

• Manage the initiation, analysis and implementation of larger project initiatives involving multiple internal technology product teams, and outsourced partners.
• Work with our back-office provider Northern Trust to facilitate the successful migration of strategic Collateral and ETD re-platform initiatives.
• Scope, plan and lead projects by directing both internal and external resources to ensure successful delivery.
• Work with Agile teams to agree prioritisation of work and align with external parties.
• Responsible for establishing and ensuring projects comply with quality standards.
• Take full responsibility for assigned projects.
• Analysis of the specific problem, defining/documenting the overall solution.
• Identifying impacted teams/individuals and working with them to schedule required work.
• Overall planning of project considering timelines agreed with other teams.
• Overall coordination and management of the plan.
• End to end testing of overall solution with support of other teams.
• Project reporting as required e.g., status, risks, issues etc.
• Stakeholder management throughout.
• Develop a good working knowledge of the scope and overall function of systems covered by each Product Team.

Requirements

• Solid understanding of Asset Management including the roles of the various participants within the industry.
• Understanding of a typical trade lifecycle e.g., execution, pricing, confirmation, settlement, reporting etc.
• Good understanding of Fixed Income securities and derivatives
• Experience of transitioning platforms would be beneficial.
• Experience & understanding of agile development practises.
• Project Management within an agile environment.
• Knowledge of work management tools such as JIRA.
• Clear, effective communicator, able to succinctly define and communicate project scope, goals and objectives across multiple teams.
• Happy to “roll up sleeves” and take a hands-on approach where required.
• Able to work with Product Teams that will have different business owners and priorities to create and gain agreement to a co-ordinated set of project outcomes.
• Good leadership and influencing skills, able to work with multiple teams to deliver against the agreed plan.
• Collaborative workstyle based around interactions with multiple small teams.
• Comfortable taking on feedback, seeking input from teams whilst seeing other people’s point of view, always looking for ways to improve.
• Show initiative and creativity in researching solutions to business problems.
• Proactively organise your work, work self-directed and independently to accomplish results.
• Critical thinker with an appetite to solve problems and puzzles and attention to detail.
• Ability to recognise a mistake, take ownership and corrective action to remedy it.