Role Description

As the Project Manager for the ICARA and Audit you will be responsible for the end-to-end management of the ICARA Programme and the Annual Audit to contracted time, quality, and budget requirements. This will involve the proactive identification, management and resolution of risks and issues throughout the full project lifecycle.

The role requires the individual to be experienced in leading large projects within the financial services industry.

The Project Manager will be primarily involved in the delivery of a single large-scale project (ICARA), in addition to the audit of year-end financial statements, principally for FNZ (UK) Ltd. There will also be multiple smaller-scale Finance projects which may require coordination and management.

The role operates within the Regulatory Finance team with a reporting line into the Head of Regulatory Finance.

Specific Role Responsibilities

Delivery Management

• Manage the delivery of the project through the full project lifecycle, from initiation through to implementation.

• Running relevant governance forums related to the ICARA.

• Production of ICARA governance forum management information on a weekly basis. This will also include agenda setting and action tracking.

• Escalation of any risks and issues to relevant governance forums, and maintenance of RAID logs.

• Creation of governance forum minutes.

• Ensuring resource management is sufficiently monitored throughout the lifecycle of the ICARA, the audits and relevant other projects, including escalating capacity issues and holiday tracking.

• Create and maintain an end to end ICARA project plan that delivers the agreed scope of the project to time, budget and quality criteria.

• Create and maintain an end to end audit plan that delivers a full year end audit to time, budget and quality criteria.

• Running weekly meetings with action owners identified in the ICARA Plan to ensure oversight of actions is maintained and delivery dates are adhered to.

• Have strong relationships and take accountability for working with all FNZ Directorates/areas to agree scope, timelines and artefacts in order to ensure delivery of the project in line with overall agreed plan.

• Take accountability for the overall estimating process for a project, and work collaboratively with Regulatory Finance and other relevant project stakeholders to estimate the work effort required to deliver the project scope within the agreed timescales and budgets.

• Understand the FNZ products and technology, building the ability to identify and manage risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies through the full project lifecycle.

• Build mitigation plans for all risks and issues, and take ownership for ensuring these mitigation plans are executed, or escalated as is appropriate.

• Have strong relationships with 3rd party suppliers: ensuring that they are engaged appropriately and that contracts are in place and managed to ensure the required outcomes for FNZ.

• Undertake post implementation reviews and ensure that lessons learned are captured and shared with the rest of the PM community.

Team Leadership

• Motivate, mentor and encourage project team members to utilise themselves to their full potential and take accountability for their assigned work.

• Create a culture of continuous improvement on the project, support process improvement initiatives, and identify new process improvements.

• Swiftly escalate and ensure mitigants are established for any conflicts within the project team and/or related stakeholders both within and outside FNZ.

• Be an active member of the PM community within FNZ, contributing to team sessions, supporting other Junior PMs and sharing best practice and lessons learned.

• Knowledge of the regulatory environment in which FNZ operates, be responsible for managing the impact of all regulatory changes and ensure future change is built into project plans so FNZ clients have a compliant platform.

Experience required

Required Industry Knowledge

• Minimum of 4 years managing large projects at large institutions.

• An understanding of prudential regulation (ICARA, ICAAP).

• An understanding of the regulatory environment FNZ operate within.

• Managing 3rd party suppliers.

• Experience of managing stakeholders to executive levels.

• Financial Services experience - preferably in relation to investment/wealth/life and/or pensions products and the markets in which FNZ and our customers operate.

Required Knowledge and Skills

• Relevant qualification or equivalent experience;

• Confident, and able to take initiative given client and delivery focused environment;

• Independent, self-directing and delivery focused working style;

• Commercially aware;

• Excellent organisational, administration and time management skills;

• Good team communication skills, confident in dealing with internal and external clients;

• Highly developed written and oral communication skills;

• Confident in managing and directing senior stakeholders, as well as third-party consultants and contractors.

About FNZ Culture

Our culture is what drives us. It's at the heart of who we are and everything we do. It's what inspires, excites and moves us forward. Our ambition is to create a culture for growth, one that opens up limitless opportunities for our employees, customers and the wider world. At FNZ we know that great impact is only possible with great teamwork.

That's why we value the strength and diversity of thought in our global team.

The FNZ Way is the cornerstone of what we do. It is comprised of four values that set the standard for how everyone at FNZ interacts with each other, with our customers, and with all our diverse stakeholders around the world.

1.Customer obsessed for the long-term

2.Think big and make an impact

4. Act now and own it all the way

Challenge, commit and win together

Read more about The FNZ Way and our values: www.fnz.com/culture

Opportunities

• Right from day one, you will work alongside exceptional, multicultural teams - experts in their respective fields - who will inspire and challenge you to make your greatest impact.

• Be part of a highly successful, rapidly growing, global business that is leading the delivery of financial services via cloud computing and partners with some of the world's largest companies;

• Working in a flexible and agile way that meets the needs of the business and personal circumstances;

• Remuneration, significant financial rewards and career advancement is based on individual contribution and business impact rather than tenure or seniority;

• We provide global career opportunities for our best employees at any of our offices in the UK, EU, US, Canada, South Africa and APAC.

Commitment to Equal Opportunities

At FNZ, we recognise that diversity, equity and inclusion are important factors contributing to our success. We embrace the unique perspective and capabilities of our current and future employees, which will help us continue to drive innovation and achieve our business goals. Recruitment decisions at FNZ are made in a non-discriminatory manner without regard to gender, ethnicity/race, faith, age, nationality, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, socio-economic background, disability or military veteran status where all applicants and employees are valued and respected.

In addition, we want to ensure accessibility needs are well supported, if you require specific support please advise us.

If this role sounds like a great fit, we'd love to hear from you. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and the advert may close early depending on volume.

#LI-KS1

About FNZ

FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone, everywhere can invest in their future on their terms. We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry, but complexity holds firms back.

We created wealth's growth platform to help. We provide a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. All in a regulated financial institution.

We partner with over 650 financial institutions and 12,000 wealth managers, with US$1.7 trillion in assets under administration (AUA).

Together with our customers, we help over 26 million people from all wealth segments to invest in their future.