Project Officer jobs in United Kingdom

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.

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About SS&C Technologies

SS&C is a global provider of investment, financial services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries. Named to Fortune 1000 list as top U.S. company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut and has 20,000+ employees in over 90 offices in 35 countries. Some 18,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest institutions to local firms, manage and account for their investments using SS&C's products and services.

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SS&C Eze

SS&C Eze, a business unit of SS&C Technologies, is helping 1,900 global asset managers transform their investment process to optimize operational and investment alpha and grow their business. SS&C Eze delivers cutting-edge cloud, mobile, and on-premise solutions to maximize efficiencies across trade order management, execution, compliance, commission management, portfolio accounting, and investor accounting. From start-up and emerging funds to the most recognized and established institutions, SS&C Eze has provided buy-side firms with innovative and award-winning technology solutions backed by unparalleled client service for over 25 years.

About the Role

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As a Project Manager, you will own and manage all activities relating to projects you manage for our clients, with full responsibility of scope, resources, milestones and cost. You will apply knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities in order to meet business requirements and resolve any deviation from project plan regarding scope, resources, schedule, and budget, with the ultimate goal of creating delighted and referenceable clients. In addition to this, you will drive continuous improvement within SS&C’s Project Management team, and act as a mentor for more junior staff.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in investment finance or adjacent industries.

• 5+ years of experience leading complex business transformation projects, preferably with external client stakeholders.

• Deep understanding of project management practices, with experience in using project management, ERP and CRM software.

• Demonstrable ability to communicate with and present to stakeholders of all levels, up to and including C-Suite.

• Knowledge of EMS, OMS and IBOR/ABOR software preferred.

• Travel within EMEA is expected, with amount depending on client and project location.

Responsibilities

• Build strong relationships with client stakeholders and manage them and their expectations according to the needs of the project.

• Initiate and establish strong project governance frameworks, leveraging industry and SS&C best practices.

• Ensure project objectives are in line with client needs, and are understood by relevant internal and external stakeholders.

• Collaborate with internal and external teams on relevant decisions to delivery successful projects.

• Thoroughly plan project execution and activities, tracking and reporting progress, and managing any deviations as needed through effective Change Management.

• Establish and review project baselines (scope, resources, schedule, budget).

• Proactively manage project risks, creating appropriate mitigation plans.

• Manage issues and any escalations.

• Drive continuous improvement items relating to how SS&C delivers client projects, self-starting and working with other stakeholders as appropriate to improve best practice.

• Whilst not the norm, there may be instances where some projects require out of hours work, and the Project Manager will be expected to manage this as appropriate

EEO Statement / Non-agency Disclosure

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups, to enable us to bring a diversity of 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.

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.

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.