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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
Job Title – Project Manager
Locations: London, Hybrid
Get To Know Us:
Calastone (part of SS&C) - is the largest global funds network, connecting the world’s leading financial organisations.
Our mission is to reduce complexity, risk and costs, enabling the industry to deliver greater value to investors. Over 4,000 clients in 56 countries and territories benefit from Calastone’s services, processing over £250 billion of investment value each month.
Calastone is headquartered in London and has offices in Luxembourg, Hong Kong, Taipei, Singapore, New York and Sydney.
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.
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
Role Purpose
Reporting to the Project Director, this role will be responsible for successfully delivering projects across the entire organisation. The role will be in charge of linking the various activities involved in delivering new products to market and for delivering key elements in support of Calastone’s commercial plan. The Project Manager will manage, report and where required remediate the various work streams associated with Calastone’s delivery, marketing and commercial teams.
The role holder will have responsibility for delivering and implementing Calastone’s products in our clients’ operations and play a key part of the end-to-end delivery of our solutions into a client UAT and production environment.
You will collaborate with the product and technology teams to design and manage all technical aspects of implementation, including system configuration, integration architecture, conversion and migration of data from one system to another delivering a seamless transition for both end users and customers.
You will join specialists in the Sales team in workshops with clients, aimed at understanding their technology landscape and collaboratively design implementation and migration plans, keeping scalability and repeatability of the approach front of mind.
Required Knowledge & Experience
The role holder will be expected to have project management experience within Financial Services - experience in the financial industry is essential. Experience in an Agile environment would be beneficial.
The role holder will display an outcome-oriented approach and demonstrate a proven record of delivery.
A grasp of data modelling techniques, message transformation and exposure to industry standard messaging protocols would be a significant positive. Knowledge of best practice industry methodologies would be advantageous.
What You Will Get To Do:
- Own and manage end-to-end implementation projects, ensuring on-time delivery, meeting of budgetary demands, and maintenance of overall project ownership
- Design the conversion and migration strategy
- Manage and control system configuration of client UAT and production environments for both new and software upgrade implementations
- Work closely with Calastone customers to manage client UAT and implementation programs
- Facilitate end user training on Calastone software products
- Provide go-live and post implementation support
- Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential issues and devise contingency plans, using appropriate techniques (e.g. Risk logs, Change requests)
- Provide regularly scheduled updates to internal and external stakeholders and hold weekly project update meetings throughout the implementation lifecycle
- Manage expectations for internal and external stakeholders to ensure satisfaction throughout the implementation process.
- Serve as the first level of escalations for all Project-related risks and issues
- Assist in ensuring projects are appropriately scoped and approved.
- Implement defined projects as confirmed with the Head of Operations and ensure that deliverables are scalable and replicable.
- Work with internal teams to ensure that outputs are delivered on time, within budget and are fit for purpose.
- Set milestones and produce KPIs on project progress to facilitate reporting, management review and for exception reporting.
- Ensure that risks, issues and actions are appropriately documented, tracked and where appropriate escalated.
- Understand and delegate clearly defined work packages to assigned analysts and assist in any subsequent troubleshooting.
What You Will Bring:
- Ability to positively direct colleagues when resolving issues.
- Team player in multi-disciplined, technology, industry, regulatory and analytical-biased environment.
- Passionate about quality.
- Needs to be able to hold their corner and to be able to deal with a spirited work environment.
- Flexible attitude and entrepreneurial approach.
- Strong work ethic and willingness to work additional hours where required.
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.
