Senior Project Manager

Job Summary: 

The Senior Project Manager has a diverse range of responsibilities, including defining project scope, creating detailed implementation plans with internal, client, and third-party resources, and ensuring successful, on-time project completion. They provide regular status updates through reports and meetings, lead high-level steering committee meetings, and act as a trusted client relationship manager. 

Additionally, they manage implementation budgets, actively seek opportunities for service improvements, and oversee the transition from Sales to Global Delivery before a project begins and from Global Delivery to Client Services after implementation. 

Responsibilities:  

• Manages end-to-end execution of projects, ensuring they meet scope, timeline, and budget requirements.

• Executes project plan creation and maintenance, project budget management, change controls, risk and issue management.

Skills/Experience:

• PM Skills (Methodologies, budgeting, etc.):

  • Expertise in project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, etc.).

  • Hands on experience with budget management and risks/issues tracking & mitigation

  • Expertise in project managing the full lifecycle on projects of 6+ month duration and budget > $500k

  • Extensive experience working on client facing projects alongside a global team of Engineers, Sales/Account Management, and customer support

• BA Skills:

  • Scope and document SOWs for existing clients.

• Communication/Stakeholder Mgmt Skills:

  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

  • Persistence and adaptability

  • Comfortable with ambiguity

  • Excellent analytical, strategic conceptual thinking, and strategic planning, and execution skills

  • Flexibility - comfortable with wearing many hats

• Domain Expertise/Types of Projects:

  • Project Management experience delivering pricing, risk, and trading platform solutions on a range of projects pre or post sales (i.e. large scale, complex initiatives, and tactical and/or strategic projects)

  • Understanding of the trade lifecycle.

• Strategic Initiatives:

  • Provide feedback & improve PM processes.

• Escalations/Project Oversight:

  • Proactive work ethic and ability to work with minimal supervision

  • Proactively mitigates project risks and issues, and has oversight and responsibility for the entire project independently.

  • Builds strong relationships with internal/external stakeholders, resolves conflicts, and manages expectations for the entire project

  • Ability to provide actionable insights and recommendations to support high-level decision-making.

Required Skills:  

• 4-10 years total experience, with demonstrated project management or workstream/senior analyst experience

• Must have client implementations experience

• Financial Services Experience (Investment, Banking, Insurance, FinTech, etc). 

• Bachelor’s or master's in relevant field e.g. project management, MBA, finance, economics etc...

• Knowledge of risk management or front office tools is good to have, but not essential