Senior Project Manager

Camberley, Surrey
Psixty Recruitment Ltd

Client:

Hypergrowth Fin-techSaaS business who target Trust, Private Wealth and Corporate Services.

Role:

To lead our client’s implementation project services activities, from project definition, planning and ongoing monitoring on medium to large sized/complexity of projects.

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute towards the Professional Services revenue targets by meeting the team’s utilisation objectives.

• Provide best practice guidance to customers that initially delivers a rapid and safe implementation. In the medium/longer term of the project, enable the customer to derive maximum value from their investment.

• Gain a full understanding of each project and its associated contractual delivery terms.

• Follow project framework and use of supporting artefacts in the execution of project engagement.

• Contribute to the continuous improvement the client’s project framework and artefacts

• Produce detailed Project Initiation/Scoping Document in conjunction with internal Consultants and the client

• Produce formal project timeline & resource-based implementation plan

• Prepare revenue forecast for the project based on high-level allocation of required resources over the planned duration

• Conduct project meetings with client executive representatives

• Assessment and reporting of main project risks

• Regular auditing and reporting all key projects – typically this will include progress against target, risk evaluation (revenue, client issues, internal issues, etc)

• Recommendations on mitigation of risks and issues

• Managing the delivery of services and related staff within a project.

• Ensuring engagement reviews and quality assurance procedures take place for all project engagements.

Ideal Profile:

• Business or functional experience in any comparable client operations, for example Trust Administration and Client Services, Fund Administration, Accounting, Private Banking, Portfolio management, Trade capture / settlement / operations
• Recent Financial Services sector exposure would be an advantage
• An exceptional track record of successfully managing and delivering large complex enterprise wide IT projects within the financial services sector
• Significant experience of delivery and management as a vendor or similar environment.
• Experience of operating within both in a Time & Material and Fixed Price contract structure.
• Experience of operating to an agile style of project delivery.
• Strong influencing, leadership, and governance skills.
• Intellectually strong and politically sensitive.
• Confidence in leading staff.
• Presence and credibility.
• Exceptional communication skills (both written and oral) at all levels.
• Commercially astute
• Pragmatic.
• Risk aware.
• 8 years of relevant experience & skills to match.