Project Manager

About Us:

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a dedication to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It's how we've contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services - and our open-access model - we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.

LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific.

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Role Description:

Mobilise and drive selected projects within the 2025 FX Regulatory and Risk Portfolio

• Swift Settlement Center Upgrade - Settlement Center
• Mandate PB field in FXall Admin - Admin
• Kaizen findings Remediation
• Regulatory Reporting Controls Enhancements
• Build, agree, socialise and run detailed end-to-end plans for 2025, gathering and documenting inter-dependencies between the deliverables.
• Ensuring live service is not negatively impacted for the FX Business and Clients as project changes are rolled out.
• Support existing or mobilise appropriate governance (SteerCos / Working Groups) to ensure there is transparency and accountability across the collaborator community.
• Define and report on progress and achievement of key milestones.
• Clearly define roles, responsibilities, and identify / address areas of concern.
• Run issues and risks within this programme, raising as appropriate to the FX Theme and Markets Portfolio Boards.
• Continually run dependencies, ensuring smooth and timely delivery of the key achievements.
• Represent assigned projects at the FX Theme Board, providing the following updates:
  • Report on progress made and plans for the next reporting period.
  • RAG status
  • Return to Green plans
  • Key risks and issues.
  • Financial position
• Handle the financials for assigned projects, i.e.:
  • Create and maintain the 2025 forecast
  • Track actuals and adjust accordingly to ensure projects remain within budget
• Maintain Clarity, i.e.:
  • Achievements
  • Risks / Issues
  • Status updates
  • Cost plans
• Create and maintain project artefacts for the workstream, ensuring compliance to LSEG's Change Framework.
• Providing support to the incumbent Programme and Project Managers, i.e.:
  • Assistance in the creation of Portfolio Board, Steering Committee and Working Group materials
  • Maintenance of milestones, risks, issues and dependencies.
  • Creation and maintenance of cost plans in Clarity.
  • Creation of Change Requests to be ratified at the appropriate governance routine
  • Analysis of the accuracy of forecasting (forecast vs actuals) and adjusting to ensure projects remain within budget
  • Assistance with the creation and maintenance of Purchase Orders

Essential

• Previous experience (+3 years) in Project Management
• Experience of developing, implementing and delivering projects in a highly matrixed and fast paced businesses
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office, including MS Project
• Excellent at managing and influencing a wide network of collaborators
• Excellent planning and organisational skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Excellent knowledge of financial management, risk, and project management methodologies
• Excellent documentation skills; ability to create high quality Working Group materials
• Previous experience in managing cost plans
• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Resilient - outcome and delivery focused with the ability to operate in a sophisticated environment
  

Desirable

• A strong product knowledge of FX
• Project Management qualifications, e.g. Prince2, PMP, etc.
• Previous experience using Clarity

Benefits:

We are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios! If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as will be supporting you to fast-forward your career!

We maximise each employee's potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe in remunerating our people with competitive salaries and a range of attractive benefits such as:

• 25 days' holiday per year
• 1 additional day off for your Birthday
• Annual wellness allowance
• Share Purchase Plan
• Medical Health Insurance
• Medical Subscription (preventive medical services)
• Dental Coverage
• Life insurance
• Pillar 3 Private Pension
• Meal Vouchers
• Flexible Benefits
• Bookster
• Volunteering Events
• All LSEG colleagues with at least one year's continuous service, who become parents, are now entitled to at least 26 weeks' paid leave, and the option to return to work on a phased basis, in relation with specific company's policy and guidelines

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone's race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

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