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

• 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.