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:

We are looking for an experienced Technical Delivery Manager / Project Manager to join our Wealth Engineering team. The role will report to the Wealth Programme Manager working closely with the various development team teams and product owners and have overall delivery accountability.

The Project Manager will be responsible for the technical delivery of large-scale technical software development and transformation projects, through coordination and management of dedicated development teams located across the globe.

Key Responsibilities:

• Runs projects that involve multiple partners, ensuring project charters, coordinated project plans, resource, budget, and contingency plans are prioritised, and that risk management processes are in place.
• Collaborates with project sponsors/partners to agree project objectives, achievements and success criteria and develops status reports to update key partners on project progress.
• Evaluates trade-offs between project size, complexity, cost, risk, etc. effectively assessing and resolving high-priority project risks.
• Runs project workstreams throughout the project lifecycle delivering results that meet the success parameters stated in the business case.
• Supervises the project budget request process and performs regular financial reviews, tracking and measuring financial performance and key metrics against plan and validating financial forecasts.
• Ensures all projects adhere to LSEG Group Standards for project methodology, governance, and risk management.
• Represents the project in various governance forums.

Specific Responsibilities / Accountabilities:

• Technology delivery - leads the delivery across all technology teams in the workstream throughout the end-to-end delivery chain.
• Architect Engagement - Ensures full engagement of relevant architects to provide solution design and overall architecture alignment.
• Planning - Accountable for all technology planning activities, including working closely with Development Lead to ensure technology plans are fully and correctly reflected in overall plans and roadmaps.
• Dependency management - Ensures all impacts of dependencies are addressed in the overall project plan. Effectively works across the organisation to ensure all dependent teams are aligned with the project plans and schedules.
• Risk and Issue Management - Proactively manages risks and issues for the workstream in a timely manner and has the confidence to make decisions to mitigate or resolve when required. Works closely with the workstream lead to ensure RAIDS are fully documented, mitigated and raised as required.
• Leadership - Leads and works closely with all members of the team, including business analysts, architects, quality assurance engineers, and development management to ensure all aspects from intake, requirements, design, and testing are fit for purpose and delivered in a timely manner for planning and execution.
• Team performance - Works closely with project teams to ensure optimal delivery performance throughout execution and see opportunities to improve timelines, throughput, and quality.
• Problem solving and decision making - Has sound judgment using assertiveness and influencing skills to ensure items are discussed and decisions made and agreed in a timely manner.
• Governance - Manages any technology team governance and adheres to the overall programme governance to ensure all partners and team members are aligned and effective in delivery.
• Reporting - Ensures reporting is provided as required on a regular basis against roadmap, plans, and any performance for the project's teams.
• Communication - Works closely with the project management office to identify and handle all partners, providing visibility and clarity.
• Financial Management and Project Accounting - Provides critical data required for the project management function to supervise financial health, analysing resource requirements across multiple projects or across programmes to meet strategic goals. Scrutinises resource allocations, cost plans and actuals to ensure viable plan.

Candidate Profile / Key Skills:

Required skills:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent.
• Project management qualification (e.g. PRINCE2, APM, PMP) - highly desirable.
• Previous experience project management.
• Previous experience in team co-ordination / management.
• Familiarity with Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) Tools would be beneficial.

Essential Skills:

• Previous experience of working in a large scale, Premier Investment Bank or for a wider Financial Services Organisation.
• Validated experience in delivering large-scale technical projects/programmes in a hands-on capacity.
• A software delivery background would be highly helpful due to the technical nature of the deliverables.
• Extensive stakeholder management experience, together with the management of external vendor relationships.
• Experience of working in a sophisticated, high-paced environment with global teams.

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.

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