Project Manager PA25Q4PMJH026

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

Job Title Project Manager

Locations: London Hybrid

Get To Know Us:

Calastone (part of SS&C) - is the largest global funds network connecting the worlds leading financial organisations.

Our mission is to reduce complexity risk and costs enabling the industry to deliver greater value to investors. Over 4000 clients in 56 countries and territories benefit from Calastones services processing over 250 billion of investment value each month.

SS&C is leading the way. We continue to look for todays and tomorrows brightest talent those that embody a spirit to improve not only their lives but those around them. From college students to seasoned and experienced professionals we encourage you to apply. SS&C prides itself on hiring diverse honest dynamic individuals who value collaboration accountability and innovation to name a few.

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model
• Your Future: Professional Development Reimbursement including access to SS&C University
• Work/Life Balance: Competitive holiday scheme
• Your Wellbeing: Competitive benefits designed to support the wellbeing of our staff
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Training: Hands-On Team-Customised throughout your career

Role Purpose

Reporting to the Project Director this role will be responsible for successfully delivering projects across the entire organisation. The role will be in charge of linking the various activities involved in delivering new products to market and for delivering key elements in support of Calastones commercial plan. The Project Manager will manage report and where required remediate the various work streams associated with Calastones delivery marketing and commercial teams.

The role holder will have responsibility for delivering and implementing Calastones products in our clients operations and play a key part of the end-to-end delivery of our solutions into a client UAT and production environment.

You will collaborate with the product and technology teams to design and manage all technical aspects of implementation including system configuration integration architecture conversion and migration of data from one system to another delivering a seamless transition for both end users and customers.

You will join specialists in the Sales team in workshops with clients aimed at understanding their technology landscape and collaboratively design implementation and migration plans keeping scalability and repeatability of the approach front of mind.

Required Knowledge & Experience

The role holder will be expected to have project management experience within Financial Services - experience in the financial industry is essential. Experience in an Agile environment would be beneficial.

The role holder will display an outcome-oriented approach and demonstrate a proven record of delivery.

A grasp of data modelling techniques message transformation and exposure to industry standard messaging protocols would be a significant positive. Knowledge of best practice industry methodologies would be advantageous.

What You Will Get To Do:

• Own and manage end-to-end implementation projects ensuring on-time delivery meeting of budgetary demands and maintenance of overall project ownership
• Design the conversion and migration strategy
• Manage and control system configuration of client UAT and production environments for both new and software upgrade implementations
• Work closely with Calastone customers to manage client UAT and implementation programs
• Facilitate end user training on Calastone software products
• Provide go-live and post implementation support
• Proactively manage changes in project scope identify potential issues and devise contingency plans using appropriate techniques (e.g. Risk logs Change requests)
• Provide regularly scheduled updates to internal and external stakeholders and hold weekly project update meetings throughout the implementation lifecycle
• Manage expectations for internal and external stakeholders to ensure satisfaction throughout the implementation process.
• Serve as the first level of escalations for all Project-related risks and issues
• Assist in ensuring projects are appropriately scoped and approved.
• Implement defined projects as confirmed with the Head of Operations and ensure that deliverables are scalable and replicable.
• Work with internal teams to ensure that outputs are delivered on time within budget and are fit for purpose.
• Set milestones and produce KPIs on project progress to facilitate reporting management review and for exception reporting.
• Ensure that risks issues and actions are appropriately documented tracked and where appropriate escalated.
• Understand and delegate clearly defined work packages to assigned analysts and assist in any subsequent troubleshooting.

What You Will Bring:

• Ability to positively direct colleagues when resolving issues.
• Team player in multi-disciplined technology industry regulatory and analytical-biased environment.
• Passionate about quality.
• Needs to be able to hold their corner and to be able to deal with a spirited work environment.
• Flexible attitude and entrepreneurial approach.
• Strong work ethic and willingness to work additional hours where required.

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. Its important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.

Thank you for your interest in SS&C! If applicable to further explore this opportunity please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website @ 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.