Project Manager
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Job Description
As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue SS&C is headquartered in Windsor Connecticut and has 27000 employees in 35 countries. Some 20000 financial services and healthcare organizations from the worlds largest companies to small and mid-market firms rely on SS&C for expertise scale and technology.
Job Description
About SS&C Technologies
SS&C is the largest global investor service provider servicing more than 55 million investors. Continually investing in global technology and services across the spectrum of distribution channels including: Asset Managers Financial Advisors Wealth Managers and large financial institutions such as Banks and Insurers. Investor servicing is offered in many different countries including the U.S. Canada U.K. Ireland Luxembourg Australia Hong Kong and Singapore. SS&C also services mutual fund structures in many other fund domiciles.
Global Investor and Distribution Solutions (GIDS) is the business unit offering this role. GIDS delivers global omni-channel investor servicing including contact centre using digital services.
About the Role
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Enterprise Change team as a Project Manager. You will be tasked with managing projects to agreed timelines and budgets and to the required quality standard. With a focus on RAID management financial control and reporting.
You will work directly and regularly with the sponsors/owners and technical teams as well as other project stakeholders and 3rd Parties ensuring projects are effectively resourced. To manage relationships with a wide range of groups (including all project contributors).
You will also support and be involved in the Inception Process for projects governance and reporting and facilitating the handover from Inception to the design and subsequent delivery stages of the projects. This will primarily cover more complex/higher business priority activities and also be expected to lead a series of projects with less complexity but equally of higher business priority.
Your Responsibilities;
- To manage complex/multi-stream projects to agreed timelines budgets and the required quality standards with a key focus on RAID management financial control and reporting.
- To work directly and regularly with the sponsors/owners and technical teams as well as other project stakeholders and 3rd Parties ensuring projects are effectively resourced. To manage relationships with a wide range of groups (including all project contributors). Key duties will include:
- Define and deliver the project scope (including management of change control)
- Managing and leading the Project Team - co-ordination of working groups engaged in project work including Technical teams
- Detailed project planning
- Manage project financials including actuals forecasts and tolerance to ensure the project remains in governance
- Maintain the project record (e.g. RAID log progress & financial reporting etc.) for all allocated projects and conform to standards and policies defined by the EPMO.
- Control scope producing Change Requests as appropriate on time
- Plan resources to ensure Project deliverables are met. Contribute to the overall resource planning process (demand and supply) of change including escalation of resource constraints and conflicts for prioritisation and decisions directly to the Delivery Director.
- Risk issue and dependency management
- Project reporting internally (and externally where appropriate)
- Stakeholder management communication and presentation to all levels
- Key contact throughout the project
- Ensure adherence to Enterprise Change Framework (ECF) and required project documentation and audit trails
- Management of early live support
- Own and drive departmental continuous improvement initiative(s)
- On an ad-hoc basis represent the department at forums and other meetings as appropriate
Your Experience
- Sybase Experience would be preferred
- Proven project delivery over a minimum of 5 years ideally in financial services working in asset management funds or wealth management-related
- Ability to drive change and effectively manage projects and stakeholders
- Strong oral and written communication skills; must be articulate and persuasive
- Highly motivated strong problem-solving and analytical skills proactive
- An understanding of financial control budget management and risk and issue management
- Knowledge and experience of structured project management methodologies and project management tools
- Ability to work under pressure maintaining a calm and assertive manner at all times
- High level of interpersonal and teamwork skills with the ability to build and maintain strong relationships with senior managers managers and colleagues across the organisation
- Knowledge of one of these areas: Financial Services and Wealth is desirable
- Competent user of MS Outlook Excel Word PowerPoint and MS Project
EEO Statement / Non-agency Disclosure
We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups to enable us to bring a diversity of perspectives to our thinking and conversation. Its important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.
Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies Inc. or any of its affiliated companies the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters recruitment agencies or fee-based recruitment services.
Background Checks
All offers of employment at SS&C are subject to background verification checks including a 5-year employment history proof of eligibility to work in the hiring location proof of address credit check and criminal record check (where permitted by local law). The accuracy of all information you submit as part of your application is vital and may be used as part of the background-checking process should you be successful.
Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies Inc. or any of its affiliated companies the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters recruitment agencies or fee-based recruitment services.
SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race color religious creed gender age marital status sexual orientation national origin disability veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
