IBC Project Manager - contract

Sept 2017 Branding

City Of London

On-site

GBP 70,000 - 110,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

CLS is seeking a Project Manager to lead a portfolio of SaaS and system upgrade initiatives within the CLS Internal Business Change portfolio in London. You will drive delivery to time, budget and quality while coordinating with onshore and offshore stakeholders, PMO, and external delivery partners.

The role manages teams of 10-12, chairs project meetings, ensures governance, and supports data migration and integration projects across divisions such as HR, Compliance and Finance.

Qualifications

7+ years leading end-to-end projects, SaaS implementations.
SDLC knowledge including artefacts
IT security controls for SaaS product implementations
Experience in financial services
Procedural project environment experience
Experience with C-suite stakeholders
PM software: MS Project, PowerPoint, Excel, Word
Data migration projects experience
System integration projects
Offshore team experience
Managing multiple projects concurrently
PMI/APM/Prince2 certification
Knowledge of waterfall and agile methodologies
Basic business analysis (user stories)

Responsibilities

Lead cross-divisional workshops and, with support of business analysts, ensure both functional and non-functional requirements are gathered and maintained throughout the life of the project.
Develop and maintain a consolidated project plan for all stages of the project’s lifecycle with 3rd party suppliers and internal divisions.
Manage budgets for projects including creating and maintaining finance tracking spreadsheets, and managing the associated purchase order & invoicing processes.
Work with CLS's Project Management Office to ensure delivery framework adherence and maintain project documents (BRDs, high-level designs, test strategies, business cases).
Coordinate testing with CLS test teams across ST, SIT, UAT, NFT, and Pen testing.
Run periodic project meetings (project boards, team meetings) with UK and offshore teams.
Manage sponsor and stakeholders, escalate when needed and communicate messages.
Oversee vendor teams day-to-day, monitor performance and commercials.
Monitor risks, issues, RAID logs, and elevate as required.
Coordinate with Architecture, IT Engineering, InfoSec, and compliance on technical delivery.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication

Risk management

Vendor management

Agile methodologies

Waterfall

Data migration

PMO governance

C-suite liaison

Education

APM/PMI/Prince2

Tools

Microsoft Project

PowerPoint

Excel

Word

Job description

CLS helps clients navigate the changing FX marketplace – reducing risk and creating efficiencies. Our extensive network and deep market intelligence enable CLS specialists to lead the development of standardized solutions to real market problems. Our innovative, forward-looking products make the trading process faster, easier, safer

and more cost-effective - empowering our clients' success.

Functional title

Project Manager

Location

London

N/A Contractor

Report to

Department

No. of direct reports

Job purpose

The Project Manager will lead a series of projects/initiatives within the CLS Internal Business Change (\"IBC\") Portfolio. The PM will be responsible for the successful delivery to time, budget and quality and will be required to work on projects simultaneously.

These projects/initiatives cover system; upgrades, replacements, and new system installations for CLS's internal divisions (e.g. HR, Compliance, Finance etc.). The portfolio is predominantly composed of cloud system deliveries (SaaS) of commercial off-the shelf software (COTS) and cross-divisional transformations.

The role will include liaising on a day to day basis with a series of senior CLS stakeholders (onshore and offshore), CLS's project management office, technical teams, and external delivery partners. Chairing periodic project meetings across a range of stakeholders and drafting project materials.

The Project Manager will lead project teams of c. 10 to 12 people composed of technical and non-technical resources and report to the Head of CLS's Internal Business Change Portfolio.

The Project Manager will also be expected to provide project cover to team members within the Internal Business Change portfolio.

Essential Function / major duties and responsibilities of the job

Day to day responsibilities include:

Scope: Lead cross-divisional workshops and, with support of business analysts, ensure both functional and non-functional requirements are gathered and maintained throughout the life of the project.

Time: Liaise with 3rd party suppliers and internal divisions to develop and maintain a consolidated project plan for all stages of the project's lifecycle.

Cost: Manage budgets for projects including creating and maintaining finance tracking spreadsheets, and managing the associated purchase order & invoicing processes.

Project Governance: Work with CLS's Project Management Office to ensure that the project adheres to CLS's delivery framework. Ensuring all documents on the project are kept up to date and to the expected quality (for example: business requirement documents, high level designs, test strategies, business cases, etc.). Additionally, provide progress updates within the relevant PMO tooling (e.g. SharePoint).

Test Coordination: Liaise with CLS's test teams to coordinate all stages of testing on the project (including ST, SIT, UAT, NFT, and Penetration Testing).

Communications: Run periodic project meetings (e.g. project boards, team meeting, etc.), communicating with teams and stakeholders both in the UK and offshore.

Stakeholder Management: Work with the project's sponsor and other senior stakeholders to keep them effectively informed and communicate any messages they have to the project team. Managing day to day decisions on the sponsor's behalf, and knowing when to escalation

Vendor Management: Manage vendor teams on a day to day basis (onshore and offshore) to enable them to complete their relevant elements of the project. Monitoring and controlling vendor performance and commercials as required.

Risk and Issue Management: Monitor, record (via RAID logs), and appropriately elevate any risks, issues, and assumptions on the project.

Technical Coordination: Liaise day to day with the relevant CLS technical teams, to ensure the systems development is completed from all areas (e.g. Architecture, IT Engineering, InfoSec, compliance, etc.)

Experience / Qualifications / certifications essential and desired for successful job performance