Job Description

Project Manager

Department: Platform Change, London

Location: City of London
Overview of Platform Change
We are a friendly, supportive and collaborative team comprising of Programme and Project Managers, Business Analysts and PMO, who manage the analysis and delivery of platform wide change programmes and projects.
Key duties
We are looking for a Project Manager for our Wealth Custody Migration programme:

• Project Management: Establish project structure and governance. Lead the delivery of the project to scope, on time and within budget. Create and maintain high-quality project artefacts, including project plans, roadmaps, RAID logs, management information, RACI matrices, project dashboards, and status reports.
• Vendor Management: Work closely with key vendors, establish strong working relationships, building out joint plans and ensuring they meet key milestones
• Deliver High-Quality Artefacts: Produce and maintain all key documentation required to underpin successful project delivery, ensuring information is clear, actionable, and accessible.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Build strong working relationships with stakeholders, capturing, challenging, and refining complex business requirements to align with project objectives.
• Stakeholder Management: Chair meetings-including SteerCo, Working Groups, and Stand-Ups-providing regular, clear updates on progress, risks, issues, and challenges, along with proposed solutions where appropriate. Prepare and present materials for all forums, such as roadmaps, milestone registers, and decision/action logs. Communicate effectively, tailoring messaging to the audience. Identify and document clear escalation paths, ensuring timely and transparent issue resolution.
• Exemplary Leadership: Act as a role model and advocate for project managers, fostering knowledge sharing and the adoption of best practices.
• Oversight of BA/Tech Teams and Deliverables: Provide direction, guidance, and oversight to Business Analysts within the programme, ensuring quality, consistency, and timely delivery of all business analysis outputs.
• Drive Best Practice: Contribute to the development and maintenance of best practices, setting standards for project management excellence within the Platform Change function.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Minimum of 10 years' experience in project management, with at least 5 years in a senior or lead PM role.
• Professional project management qualification (e.g., Prince2, PMP).
• Experience in projects involving Trading and Custody systems either via implementation projects, upgrades or migration exercises.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with proven expertise in influencing senior leadership and managing relationships to inspire confidence and maximise contributions across a wide range of stakeholders.
• Strong written, visual, presentational, and verbal communication skills at all organisational levels.
• Demonstrated commitment to collaboration, with a proven ability to mobilise cross-functional teams, build consensus, and deliver shared objectives within complex environments.
• Proactive, self-motivated, and able to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.

Highly Desirable Skills and Experience

• Platform Migration Delivery
  Extensive experience leading end-to-end migration of products, services, or business functions to new technology platforms, ensuring both legacy and target platforms remain operationally stable and continue to deliver accurate outputs throughout the transition period, including effective management of parallel operations and cutover processes.
• Contractual and Legal Framework Transition
  Experience overseeing the legal, contractual, and operational changes required during technology or service migrations, including the review and update of agreements and regulatory documentation, to ensure compliance and continuity throughout transitions.
• Strategic Programme Delivery
  Strong track record of delivering large-scale, multi-year transformation programmes, preferably within asset management, wealth, or private markets, with evidence of collaboration across business, operations, technology, compliance, risk, and vendor management teams.

About Us

We're a global investment manager. We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future.

We have around 6,000 people on six continents. And we've been around for over 200 years, but keep adapting as society and technology changes. What doesn't change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper.