Project Manager

Clearwater Analytics; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading analytics firm in London seeks a Project Manager with 4-10 years of experience in project management and client implementations. This role involves managing end-to-end project executions, ensuring adherence to timelines and budgets, and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders. Ideal candidates will have financial services experience and strong communication skills. Competitive salary and opportunities for professional growth are offered.

Qualifications

• 4-10 years of experience in project management or senior analyst roles.
• Client implementations experience is mandatory.
• Financial services experience (Investment, Banking, Insurance, FinTech) is crucial.

Responsibilities

• Manages end-to-end execution of projects, ensuring they meet scope, timeline, and budget.
• Executes project plan creation and maintenance.
• Proactively mitigates project risks and issues.

Skills

Project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall)

Budget management

Client facing projects experience

Strong communication skills

Strategic planning

Education

Bachelor’s or master's in relevant field (e.g., project management, MBA, finance)

Job description

Responsibilities

• Manages end-to-end execution of projects, ensuring they meet scope, timeline, and budget requirements.

• Executes project plan creation and maintenance, project budget management, change controls, risk and issue management.

Skills/Experience

• PM Skills (Methodologies, budgeting, etc.):

  • Expertise in project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, etc.).

  • Hands on experience with budget management and risks/issues tracking & mitigation

  • Expertise in project managing the full lifecycle on projects of 6+ month duration and budget > $500k

  • Extensive experience working on client facing projects alongside a global team of Engineers, Sales/Account Management, and customer support

• BA Skills:

  • Scope and document SOWs for existing clients.

• Communication/Stakeholder Mgmt Skills:

  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

  • Persistence and adaptability

  • Comfortable with ambiguity

  • Excellent analytical, strategic conceptual thinking, and strategic planning, and execution skills

  • Flexibility - comfortable with wearing many hats

• Domain Expertise/Types of Projects:

  • Project Management experience delivering pricing, risk, and trading platform solutions on a range of projects pre or post sales (i.e. large scale, complex initiatives, and tactical and/or strategic projects)

  • Understanding of the trade lifecycle.

• Strategic Initiatives:

  • Provide feedback & improve PM processes.

• Escalations/Project Oversight:

  • Proactive work ethic and ability to work with minimal supervision

  • Proactively mitigates project risks and issues, and has oversight and responsibility for the entire project independently.

  • Builds strong relationships with internal/external stakeholders, resolves conflicts, and manages expectations for the entire project

  • Ability to provide actionable insights and recommendations to support high-level decision-making.

Requir ed Skills:

• 4-10 years total experience, with demonstrated project management or workstream/senior analyst experience

• Must have client implementations experience

• Financial Services Experience (Investment, Banking, Insurance, FinTech, etc).

• Bachelor’s or master's in relevant field e.g. project management, MBA, finance, economics etc...

• Knowledge of risk management or front office tools is good to have, but not essential