About the Role
Broadridge is looking for an experienced Project Manager based in London, supporting global projects in post-trade processing.
You will join a global team of programme and project managers plus conversions SMEs who work to deliver our solutions and services to our clients. In the initial role you will be primarily focused on a recently commenced 2-year program, but you will also be expected to contribute to a wider set of projects as required.
Candidates must be confident and self-motivated with excellent communication skills, demonstrating a strong track record of project delivery in an investment banking environment. Ideally having worked for a solution provider or alternatively experienced in vendor management from a client perspective. You will be familiar with post-trade processing in an investment banking environment and be confident in their knowledge of lifecycle of a range of financial instruments.
Responsibilities
•Providing overall leadership for the project while maintaining a focus on achieving results efficiently, ensuring that projects are appropriately resourced and skilled
•Client liaison including the development and presentation of project plans, progress reports and acceptance by the client of the final product, including participation in client workshops
•Internal senior stakeholder management and close liaison with development and support teams
•Ensure appropriate allocation and skilling of resources and their effective deployment throughout the project
•Coordinate with our global product delivery groups in UK, Europe, APAC, US and India, ensuring deliveries meet overall project needs
•Working closely with these teams and helping them to deliver to their obligations, provide mentoring and guidance
•Active involvement in managing the project to contractual obligations of all parties and the management of change control to those obligations
•Financial, technical and schedule reporting
•Ensure the programme is delivered to internal policies and controls
•Risk management and problem solving
•Active engagement with clients, third parties and suppliers
•The development of project plans, including delivery, testing, logistics, in-service support, training and documentation
Your Profile
•Minimum 3 years experience in project delivery within an investment banking environment and experience of large scale integration projects
•Strong experience of vendor / client relationship management, preferably from the vendor perspective
•A good understanding of the post-trade lifecycle, in one or more of the following areas: Reconciliations, Settlement, Corporate Actions/Asset Servicing and Trade Accounting/Sub-ledger
•Excellent organisational and planning skills
•Strong leadership qualities and self-motivated
•Ability to work effectively under pressure, with a flexible approach to work, within a dynamic and fast-paced environment
•Excellent communication skills with the ability to interface effectively with both business and technology stakeholders at any level
•Great interpersonal skills and the ability to influence effective outcomes
•Critical-thinking and time critical problem-solving skills
•Experience of different project delivery methodologies and the ability to manage to combine these, depending on project needs
•Demonstrated contract and general negotiation skills experience
•Prior experience of working with global, distributed and matrixed organisations
•Formal project management qualification
