Job Summary:

The Senior Project Manager has a diverse range of responsibilities, including defining project scope, creating detailed implementation plans with internal, client, and third-party resources, and ensuring successful, on-time project completion. They provide regular status updates through reports and meetings, lead high-level steering committee meetings, and act as a trusted client relationship manager.

Additionally, they manage implementation budgets, actively seek opportunities for service improvements, and oversee the transition from Sales to Global Delivery before a project begins and from Global Delivery to Client Services after implementation.

Responsibilities:

• Manages end-to-end execution of projects, ensuring they meet scope, timeline, and budget requirements.
• Executes project plan creation and maintenance, project budget management, change controls, risk and issue management.

Skills/Experience:

• PM Skills (Methodologies, budgeting, etc.):
  
  • Expertise in project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, etc.).
  • Hands on experience with budget management and risks/issues tracking & mitigation
  • Expertise in project managing the full lifecycle on projects of 6+ month duration and budget > $500k
  • Extensive experience working on client facing projects alongside a global team of Engineers, Sales/Account Management, and customer support
• BA Skills:
  
  • Scope and document SOWs for existing clients.

• Communication/Stakeholder Mgmt Skills:
  
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
  • Persistence and adaptability
  • Comfortable with ambiguity
  • Excellent analytical, strategic conceptual thinking, and strategic planning, and execution skills
  • Flexibility - comfortable with wearing many hats

• Domain Expertise/Types of Projects:
  
  • Project Management experience delivering pricing, risk, and trading platform solutions on a range of projects pre or post sales (i.e. large scale, complex initiatives, and tactical and/or strategic projects)
  • Understanding of the trade lifecycle.

• Strategic Initiatives:
  
  • Provide feedback & improve PM processes.

• Escalations/Project Oversight:
  
  • Proactive work ethic and ability to work with minimal supervision
  • Proactively mitigates project risks and issues, and has oversight and responsibility for the entire project independently.
  • Builds strong relationships with internal/external stakeholders, resolves conflicts, and manages expectations for the entire project
  • Ability to provide actionable insights and recommendations to support high-level decision-making.

Required Skills:

• 4-10 years total experience, with demonstrated project management or workstream/senior analyst experience
• Must have client implementations experience
• Financial Services Experience (Investment, Banking, Insurance, FinTech, etc).
• Bachelor's or master's in relevant field e.g. project management, MBA, finance, economics etc...
• Knowledge of risk management or front office tools is good to have, but not essential