Project Manager

CMC Markets; Sydney; On-site; AUD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave

Birthday off

L&D program

Wellbeing hub

Office snacks

Job summary

CMC Markets Stockbroking (CMC) in Sydney is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead cross‑functional initiatives across the ANZ Programme, including compliance, remediation and new business projects. You will own end‑to‑end delivery, engage with stakeholders, vendors and partners, and drive projects to time and specification.

The role requires 5–6 years in financial services project delivery, strong governance, and hands‑on delivery.

Qualifications

• 5–6 years experience managing projects or delivering technology solutions in financial services.
• Experience with agile and waterfall methodologies across the full SDLC.
• Strong governance, planning and delivery best practices.

Responsibilities

• Define project scope, objectives, milestones and deliverables with stakeholders.
• Turn business needs into clear project plans aligned with the roadmap.
• Coordinate internal teams, external partners and vendors to keep delivery on track.
• Monitor progress, manage dependencies, and report risks and issues.
• Maintain project plans, status reports and key documentation.
• Plan training and rollout activities with a focus on operational readiness.
• Apply change management principles to support adoption.
• Conduct post-implementation reviews and capture lessons learned.
• Coordinate with Marketing for project branding and client communications.
• Follow compliance guidelines and regulatory requirements.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Agile & Waterfall

Team leadership

Governance

Jira

Confluence

Analytical thinking

Communication

AWS Cloud familiarity

Education

PM qualification (PMP/PRINCE2/AIPM)

Business or technology degree

Tools

Jira

Confluence

AWS Cloud

Job description

CMC Markets Stockbroking (CMC) provides retail and wholesale stockbroking services including trading, clearing and settlement of transactions across global equities, options, funds and cryptocurrencies. CMC also provides white and grey label platforms and services to a number of banking and intermediary partners. We offer an award-winning trading experience to customers through a continuous focus on technology development across three proprietary front ends (including mobile apps) as well as ensuring efficient and stable back-office systems and processes to run the business.

About the role

As a Project Manager you will lead the initiation and execution of projects across the CMC ANZ Programme. This includes supporting B2B projects or discrete business, legal or compliance projects. The role will provide project management capability across the ANZ programme. This includes supporting B2B projects or discrete business, legal or compliance projects.

You will own and manage project activities that deliver business and technology solutions, enabling CMC to achieve its business benefits and outcomes. You will be engaging with stakeholders across the business, external vendors, and partners to ensure delivery is on time and to specification. Work across range of projects including compliance, remediation, enhancement, and new business projects. internal stakeholder facing projects as business strategy demands.

CMC adopts an agile approach to project delivery for the majority of projects. This is a hands-on role and the Project Manager is expected to adopt a hand-on approach to delivery. This role would suit an experienced project manager with 5-6 years experience from a financial background who is dynamic and flexible, able to pick up new projects, own them end to end, and drive them forward successfully. You will posses strong project management fundamentals=, including best practice and governance. Able to pick up and manage different types of projects.

Why you'll like working here

Just some of the reasons you’ll love working here include:

• Leave benefits: Accrue 5 additional annual leave entitlements each year called My Days, as well as enjoying 5 extra annual leave days once you pass 12 months. Enjoy your birthday off to spend time with family and friends, on us! Utilise a free annual charity day to give back to your community.
• $0 Trades: Staff & family trading accounts with CMC Markets Invest have access to the best brokerage rates in the market - $0 trades for all domestic and international equity orders!
• Continuous learning: Our L&D offering covers both technical and performance training, ensuring you're always learning new skills.
• Unlimited access to a dedicated benefits & wellbeing hub where you can save money through various retailer discounts, and make use of a variety of resources that will enhance your physical and mental wellbeing
• Collaboration: We believe that great things happen when smart people work together, that’s why we’ve made the decision to work five days in the office.
• Office perks: Help yourself to free breakfast cereals, condiments, and coffee to fuel your workday. Our culture club provides opportunities for everyone whether you’re into fitness, pizza making classes, socialising or bringing out your competitive side in trivia or lawn bowls!

What you’ll be working on?

• Define project scope, objectives, milestones and deliverables with stakeholders
• Turn business needs into clear project plans aligned with the business roadmap
• Coordinate internal teams, external partners and vendors to keep delivery on track
• Monitor progress, manage dependencies, and report on risks and issues, escalating when needed
• Maintain project plans, status reports and other key documentation
• Work with business analysts, developers, testers and business stakeholders to deliver quality solutions that meet requirements
• Support business case preparation and document project outcomes and expected benefits
• Plan training and rollout activities, with a focus on operational readiness and solution stability
• Apply business change management principles to support adoption
• Conduct post-implementation reviews, capture lessons learned and apply them to future projects
• Coordinate with Marketing to deliver project branding, collateral and client communications on time
• Follow CMC Markets’ compliance guidelines, regulatory requirements and data protection standards, obtaining Legal and Compliance approval where required

What will help you be successful?

• 5-6 years experience managing projects or delivering technology solutions, ideally within financial services
• Strong project management fundamentals, including governance, planning and delivery best practice
• Experience working with both agile and waterfall methodologies and across the full software development lifecycle
• High proficiency in Jira and Confluence
• The ability to manage multiple projects in parallel and adapt to changing priorities
• Strong analytical, organisational and problem-solving skills, with close attention to detail
• Clear communication skills and confidence working with stakeholders at all levels
• A hands on, self motivated approach, with the flexibility to take ownership and drive projects forward
• Experience leading teams to deliver high quality outcomes within tight timeframes
• An appreciation of client experience and website usability
• Experience in wealth management, retail or institutional stockbroking, banking, or online trading
• Familiarity with AWS Cloud
• Experience with ASX or CHESS
• A project management qualification, such as AIPM, PMP or PRINCE2 Practitioner
• A business or technology degree, or equivalent experience

The things we live by

CMC Markets is powered by our people. We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, where our people feel confident to be themselves, feel valued and are able to do their best work. We don’t just value differences and unique perspectives, we seek them out and we invite them in, because we know it will lead to better outcomes for everyone

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We look forward to hearing from you!