Associate Director, Program Manager

SS&C; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services technology company based in London is seeking an Associate Director Programs Manager. In this role, you'll be responsible for project planning, managing client relationships, and overseeing day-to-day operations within a hybrid working model. The successful candidate will have a strong background in project management within the financial sector and will be fluent in English and German. This position offers professional development opportunities and a competitive holiday scheme to promote work-life balance.

Benefits

Hybrid Work Model

Professional Development Reimbursement

Competitive holiday scheme

Wellbeing benefits

Diversity and Inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• 5 years of End-2-End Project Management experience.
• 3 years Project Management experience in the financial industry.
• Experience with Waterfall and Agile project methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for day-to-day project management and client communication.
• Anticipate project deviations and take corrective actions.
• Serve as a trusted advisor during the pre-sales phase.

Skills

Fluent in English and German

Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills

Strong client management skills

Ability to track project financials

Ability to negotiate and influence

Education

BS/BA Degree or higher

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue SS&C is headquartered in Windsor Connecticut and has 27000 employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations from the world's largest companies to small and mid‑market firms rely on SS&C for expertise, scale and technology.

Job Description

Associate Director Programs Manager – Location(s): London, UK (Hybrid)

Get To Know Us

SS&C Algorithmics provides leading risk analytics products and services for the financial services industry worldwide. The company has over 200 clients, 350 employees and offices in 25 countries and is part of SS&C Technologies Inc.

SS&C Algorithmics clients include banks, broker dealers, asset managers, hedge and private equity funds and service providers. Algorithmics solutions deliver the risk analytics clients need to address the impact of business and regulatory changes; including X‑Value Adjustment (xVA), Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB), Standardized Approach for Counterparty Credit Risk (SA‑CCR), Basel Regulatory Credit calculations, ALM and Regulatory Liquidity Limit Management Systems of Credit Risk, Real Time Credit systems, Targeted Review of Internal Models (TRIM) and Credit Lifecycle Management solutions.

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model
• Your Future: Professional Development Reimbursement including access to SS&C University
• Work/Life Balance: Competitive holiday scheme
• Your Wellbeing: Competitive benefits designed to support the wellbeing of our staff
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Training: Hands‑OnAccumulator customized throughout your career

What You Will Get To Do

The Risk Programs Manager (PM) is responsible for overall project planning and coordination. The PM owns the monitoring and communication of project deliverables:

• Responsible for day‑to‑day project management and point person for client communication.
• Responsible for establishing status meetings with the internal SS&C Algorithmics project team, the client project manager and any other required stakeholders where required.
• Anticipates project deviations proactively and takes immediate corrective actions. Where the project team is not able to resolve issues the PM escalates such issues to senior management.
• Provides administrative daily functional direction and support to the project team by adhering to project standards, achieving milestone targets and monitoring work against those standards to ensure completion谈 time. The PM tracks the project and communicates the overall health of the project via status reports and project plans. Monitoring of project costs vs. budget and taking corrective actions ensures project completion within budget.

Client Engagement and Pre‑sales Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted advisor and primary point of contact for prospective clients during the pre‑sales phase.
• Participate in client discovery sessions to gather high‑level requirements and understand business challenges.
• Contribute to the development of proposals, RFP responses and Statements of Work (SOWs).
• Present proposed solutions and delivery approaches in a clear and compelling way to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to align solutions with client expectations and organizational capabilities.
• Identify potential risks, delivery challenges or scope limitations early in the sales process.
• Support strategic account planning and help identify upsell or cross‑sell opportunities.

What You Will Bring

• Fluent in English and German.
• A BS/BA Degree or higher.
• Experience building partnerships and consulting effectively with leadership.
• Experience with Waterfall and Agile project methodologies.
• Ability to deliver multiple concurrent projects or large‑scale individual projects.
• Ability to lead projects/initiatives with high risk and complexity.
• Ability to track project financials.
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
• Knowledge and understanding of financial services industry wealth management, brokerage or retirement.
• Knowledge and understanding of project management methodologies, creation of business cases, project initiation, development of comprehensive business requirements and identification of project interdependencies.
• Advanced Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access and Project) skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with business partners, project teams and project managers.
• Ability to take initiative использует and work independently with minimal supervision.
• Ability to negotiate, influence and collaborate to build successful relationships.
• 5 years of End‑2‑End Project Management experience.
• 3 years Project Management experience in the financial industry.
• Strong client management skills. The PM will be expected toremarks build and maintain trusted relationships with clients, act as their key point of contact and ensure ongoing communication even during periods without active projects.
• Strong communication and presentation skills in Dish‑facing environments.
• Solid understanding of project scoping and requirement gathering.
• Ability to translate complex client needs into actionable delivery plans.
• Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills across sales delivery and product functions.
• High level of professionalism, confidence and strategic thinking in pre‑sales interactions.
• Proven experience working on proposals, pitches or strategic solutioning for clients.
• Familiarity with enterprise sales cycles, particularly in the financial services industry, is a plus.

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It is important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.

Thank you for your interest in SS&C! If you are interested in exploring this opportunity please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website. SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.