About us
Were a diverse group of visionary innovators who provide trading and workflow automation software high-value analytics and strategic consulting to corporations central banks financial institutions and governments. More than 40% of the worlds largest companies use our solutions. Founded in 1999 weve achieved tremendous growth by bringing together some of the best and most successful financial technology companies in the world.
At ION we offer careers that provide many opportunities: To invent. To design. To collaborate. To build. To transform businesses and empower people around the world to do more faster and better than before. Imagine what you can do and experience. This is where you can do your best work.
We have 13000 employees and offices in more than 40 cities around the globe but were only getting started.
Your role
As part of a highly motivated team your role will be pivotal in the management of IONs projects internally and with our customers. You will be involved in every aspect of running our projects working with product development delivery sales and finance teams.
Your duties and responsibilities
Programme/Project management of large complex implementation projects with ION customers covering multi-million pound multi-phased development and deployment projects.
Programme/Project management of internal digital transformation programmes such as migration of mission critical trading platforms to cloud.
Programme management of ION product development teams helping drive the delivery of innovation and workflow automation solutions
Programme management of large scale multi-year multi-product initiatives coordinating across professional services implementation development infrastructure and operational teams.
Other duties
We might ask you to perform other tasks and duties as your role expands.
Your skills experience and qualifications
Experience in leading and managing medium to large client facing projects with multi-disciplinary teams
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to summarize succinctly
Strong attention to detail with an eye for risk management
Demonstrate a pro-active approach to solving complex problems within a project
Ability to work in a complex client facing environment with many external touchpoints and dependencies
Evidence of management of conflict with teams and with customers
Tenacious in ensuring the project progresses to successful conclusion
Commercial understanding around costs and revenue on projects
Problem solver with ability to network across organizations to get things done
Accurate and methodical and capable of working to tight deadlines
Experience working as part of a global team
Familiar in working in technical environments
Have a clear drive towards continuous improvement
A good level of written and spoken English (> B2).
Technical skills
Excel (expert) Word PowerPoint MS Teams JIRA
Use of wiki based document management system such as Confluence and SharePoint
Preferred
Business knowledge of Fixed Income Markets
Use of Kanban within Agile environment
Use of PowerBI for data reporting
Understanding of databases and SQL
Use of Timesheet system (Kimble)
Contract and locations
Contract Type: Full-time permanent contract.
Locations: Pisa
Important notes:
According to the Italian Law (L.68/99) Please note that candidates from the disability list will be given priority.
Due to the high volume of applications only those candidates that meet the required criteria for selection will be contacted.
If youre from a non-EU country you must have a valid EU visa or work permit.