Senior Project Manager/Delivery Manager
Typical Day in Role
• Hands-on management of meetings, status reports, reporting to steering committees and working groups
• Leading an agile team and holding scrum meetings
• Facilitating KPIs and measuring productivity within the team
o Reporting project status, roadblocks and milestones to the project stakeholder and sponsors throughout the course of the project
• Assist in some BA duties (creating flow-charts, diagrams, documentation, etc.)
• Main scope would be to manage the Blotter Project and integration with middle office transaction booking
o May also assist on other smaller projects
• Involved in network planning, hardware planning and architecture
• Communicating with vendors, main stakeholders on the trading desk, system architects, development staff, QAs, BAs, and other PMs.
• Providing guidance to the project team to ensure efforts are aligned to the project delivery goal.
• Define project control processes, stakeholder management processes, and project gating documents in adherence to EPMO standards. Focus on Governance processes, ensuring projects are moving through the appropriate channels and drive the initiatives
Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
• 7+ years’ experience as a project manager in developing solutions within Capital Markets
o Knowledge of institutional trading workflows (for equities/prime brokerage/derivatives) environment
• Proven success overseeing/managing application development and deployment (release cycles, qa, code management, etc.)
• Implementation experience for coordinating technical infrastructure teams (need to come from IT background )
Nice-To-Have Skills:
• Order Management and Execution Management System experience
• Transaction management for booking to Broadridge
• Experience with vendor systems (Fidessa, Itiviti)
Soft Skills:
• Strong communication Skills (ability to position concepts, articulate to Senior Managers, motivate developers)
• Proactive and self-driven
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment is required
Degrees or certifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required
• PMI/PMP designations are an asset