Senior Project Manager - Middle Office, Investment mgmt.

Robert Walters UK; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 105,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm in London seeks an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead initiatives in investment management. This hybrid role requires strong leadership, project delivery skills, and a background in Financial Services. Candidates will manage complex projects and ensure successful implementation while working with diverse stakeholders. The position offers a competitive salary range of £105,000 - £115,000 per annum.

Qualifications

• Experience with Middle Office functions in investment management.
• Experience in Agile/iterative delivery.
• Strong leadership and structured project management skills.

Responsibilities

• Setting up project phases to ensure success.
• Leading streams covering business and technology change.
• Ensuring business functions realize value from change.

Skills

Investment management knowledge

Agile methodologies

PRINCE2 or project methodology experience

Financial Services experience

IT software knowledge

Project delivery skills

Leadership skills

Matrix management skills

Communication skills

Job description

Overview

Senior Project Manager – Middle Office, Investment management. London 3 days per week, the rest remote working. We have an exciting new opportunity for a Senior Project Manager to join Robert Walters as a Consultant. As an employed Consultant, you will benefit from permanent employment with Robert Walters and will be deployed on an interim or project basis into our clients' organisations, in return we will provide you with the opportunity to develop your skills with ongoing training and professional accreditations.

The successful candidate will join a thriving team working in Business Change. The team provides management of the portfolio pipeline of change, consulting with the business, developing proposals into light business cases, delivery of projects/programmes of work, managing the business impacts and partnering with IT Teams to oversee the technology changes. The intention is to ensure change is smoothly implemented, and that the lasting benefits can be measured and achieved.

The role will manage the workstream of a transformation programme implementing a new target operating model. The Middle Office workstream will cover Trade Processing, Derivatives Processing, Pricing, Reconciliations, and Cash Management. The role will drive a large business SME team and business analysis team to define the end-to-end operating model across the areas and then implement it aligning to tranches agreed with the wider transformation programme and 3rd parties.

The ideal candidate will possess the right balance of business understanding, senior stakeholder management, and project delivery skills. The candidate must be self-motivated and be able to work effectively within a matrix management environment, where several delivery teams are implementing components of the overall solutions. They need to ensure it is well governed, driven forwards and pragmatically implemented.

Responsibilities

• Setting up project phases to succeed in terms of governance, methodology, scope, design, operating models, resourcing and planning
• Ensuring the business functions realise the value from their change investment
• Leading multiple streams covering both business and technology change to deliver the required capabilities to agreed constraints
• Energetically/proactively driving a varied set of stakeholders to complete project actions without direct line management
• Working with the Business Owners to ensure deliverables are aligned to strategy/vision/business case and that high standards are delivered
• Ensuring adherence to best practices and audit compliance for delivery, change control and risk containment
• Management reporting across the project
• Ensure delivery involves successful collaboration across Business Stakeholders, 3rd parties, IT Teams, Tech, Ops, PMO and other teams

Required Skills

• Experience with investment management Middle Office functions
• Experience of Agile/iterative delivery methodologies
• PRINCE2 or other formal project methodology experience
• Extensive experience in Financial Services, especially Investment Management
• Sound understanding of IT software and infrastructure
• Proven track record of personally managing successful projects/programmes
• Experience of running projects which introduce organisational, and process change to business functions
• Strong leadership and matrix management skills
• Structured approach to project/programme management
• Excellent communications skills

Suitable candidates should submit their CV in the first instance.

We are committed to offering an inclusive recruitment experience. If you require accommodations because of disability or health condition, please email: gscemeaedi @ robertwalters.com. This position is being sourced through our Outsourcing service line.

Contract Type: Permanent

Specialism: Banking & Financial Services

Focus: Fund Management

Industry: IT

Salary: £105,000 - £115,000 per annum

Workplace Type: Hybrid

Experience Level: Senior Management

Location: London

Job Reference: 15362

Date posted: 28 March 2025

Consultant: GSC Manchester TET