Project Manager (Life and Pensions)

SS&C Technologies; Stirling; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services technology firm in Stirling is seeking a Project Manager with extensive experience in Life & Pensions. This role involves delivering complex projects on time and within budget while fostering relationships with stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of project management experience in financial services and strong communication skills. The position supports a hybrid work model, offering a competitive benefits package.

Benefits

Professional Development Reimbursement

Competitive holiday scheme

Diversity and Inclusion initiatives

Training throughout your career

Competitive benefits for staff wellbeing

Qualifications

• 5+ years of project management experience within financial services, essential experience in Life & Pensions.
• Demonstrated experience delivering within the Life and Pension sector and/or BPO projects.
• Strong grasp of project financials and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of multi-stream projects.
• Define project scope, objectives, governance, and success metrics.
• Manage cross-functional teams and maintain full financial control.

Skills

Project management experience within financial services

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Proficiency in MS Project

Tools

MS Project

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ 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

Project Manager (Life and Pensions)

Location: Stirling

Get To Know Us:

SS&C is leading the way. We continue to look for todays and tomorrow’s brightest talent, those that embody a spirit to improve not only their lives, but those around them. From college students to seasoned and experienced professionals, we encourage you to apply. SS&C prides itself on hiring diverse, honest, dynamic individuals, who value collaboration, accountability, and innovation to name a few.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Project Manager with a proven track record in leading Life & Pensions programs, platform development, and large-scale BPO initiatives within the financial services sector. This is a high-impact role, offering the opportunity to drive transformation at scale across complex delivery environments.

As part of our Enterprise Change team, you will take full ownership of project delivery—ensuring work is completed on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards. You’ll work closely with internal stakeholders, clients, and technology partners to ensure alignment and successful outcomes.

What You Will Get To Do:

• Lead end-to-end delivery of multi-stream projects across Life & Pensions, platform upgrades, and outsourcing transformations.
• Define project scope, objectives, governance, and success metrics in collaboration with sponsors and stakeholders.
• Manage cross-functional teams, including technical and operational workstreams, ensuring resource alignment and milestone tracking.
• Maintain full financial control—monitoring budgets, forecasts, and tolerance levels.
• Own project governance, documentation, RAID management, and status reporting.
• Foster strong relationships with internal stakeholders, clients, and third parties.
• Ensure compliance with internal change frameworks and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.

What You Will Bring:

• 5+ years of project management experience within financial services, with essential experience in Life & Pensions.
• Demonstrated experience delivering within the Life and Pension sector and/or BPO projects in a regulated environment.
• Strong grasp of project financials, risk management, and structured delivery methodologies (e.g., Prince2, Agile, Waterfall).
• Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills, including at executive and client levels.
• High attention to detail, resilience under pressure, and a proactive, delivery-focused mindset.
• Proficiency with project tools such as MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, and collaboration platforms.

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-On, Team-Customised throughout your career

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's 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 applicable, to further explore this opportunity, please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website @ www.ssctech.com/careers.

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

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.