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Project Manager (12 Months)

Manulife


Job Location:

Hong Kong - Hong Kong

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 4 August 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 1 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

This role provides the opportunity to lead high-impact transformation initiatives across OMS migration custodian transitions market changes and strategic business programs. By ensuring successful delivery of complex projects and driving alignment across business operations technology and external partners the role directly supports our mission of delivering scalable compliant and client-focused investment capabilities. The successful candidate will gain broad exposure to regional and global stakeholders deepen their asset management expertise and play a meaningful role in shaping the organizations future operating model.

Position Responsibilities:

  • Lead and manage the end-to-end large scale Aladdin onboarding and transformation initiatives ensuring it is delivered on time within scope and budget.
  • Develop and maintain project plans timelines and key milestones.
  • Coordinate and facilitate meetings workshops and governance forums with internal teams and vendor.
  • Monitor project risks issues and dependencies implementing mitigation plans as necessary.
  • Provide executive level reporting regular project updates to management and stakeholders.
  • Oversee the gathering of the business requirements related to middle offices back offices performance analytics and attribution processes reporting control and governance.
  • Assess the impact of the Order Management System change on existing processes systems and operational workflows.
  • Oversee the validation of new business processes ensuring alignment with regulatory and operational best practices.
  • Oversee the development and execution of UAT (User Acceptance Testing) plans with proper documentation ensuring smooth operational readiness.
  • Work with middle office workstreams for the OMS migration from Bloomberg AIM to Aladdin covering trade lifecycle order and trade flow portfolio/position data cash corporate actions investment compliance impacts exceptionmanagementand downstream reporting requirements.
  • Partner with back office fundaccountingand custody operations to define target-state processes for trade settlement reconciliations ABOR/fund accounting data flows NAV inputs custody/SSIchangesand operational controls.
  • Translate middle office andback-officerequirements into project deliverables including current-state/future-state process maps gap analysis control impacts UAT scenarios migration readiness checklists cutoverplansand post-go-live support.
  • Oversee the validation ofnew business processes ensuring alignment with regulatory and operational best practices.
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Stakeholder & Vendor Management:

  • Act as the primary liaison between internal teams (Front Office Operations Compliance Technology etc) and vendors.
  • Ensure all regulatory and contractual requirements are met as part of the transition.
  • Manage vendor relationships ensuring SLAs service standards and operational requirements are met.

Data Migration Management:

  • Work closely with IT teams and vendors to support system changes integrations and data migration activities.
  • Lead data migration process and partner with IT to ensure the accuracy and completeness as well as work with Business Analysts and vendors to conduct data reconciliation to verify successful data transfers.

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelors degree in Finance Business Administration Information Systems or a related field
  • Minimum 7 years of experience as a Project Manager within asset management investment management securities services and financial service industry.
  • Strong knowledge of investment operations middle office and back office
  • Experience in managing large-scale order management system change operational transitions and target operating model design.
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to work with cross-functional teams and external vendors
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with experience in process mapping and change management.
  • Familiarity with order management system like Aladdin Bloomberg AIM or Charles River and knowledge of data migration methodologies.
  • Hands-on experience in business requirements gathering UAT and post-migration support.
  • Fluent in English and Cantonese preferred (not essential) with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Strong Project Management skills ideally with experience using Agile Waterfall or hybrid methodologies.

When you join our team:

  • Well empower you to learn and grow the career you want.
  • Well recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.
  • As part of our global team well support you in shaping the future you want to see.

About Manulife and John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. To learn more about us visit is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Manulife/John Hancock we embrace our diversity. We strive to attract develop and retain a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve and to foster an inclusive work environment that embraces the strength of cultures and individuals. We are committed to fair recruitment retention advancement and compensation and we administer all of our practices and programs without discrimination on the basis of race ancestry place of origin colour ethnic origin citizenship religion or religious beliefs creed sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions) sexual orientation genetic characteristics veteran status gender identity gender expression age marital status family status disability or any other ground protected by applicable law.

It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process. All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and Manulife/John Hancock policies. To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process contact .

Working Arrangement

Hybrid

Required Experience:

IC


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Manulife is a leading financial services group. We provide financial advice, insurance, as well as wealth and asset management solutions for individuals, groups and institutions.

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