Project Manager

Program Management

Program Management

Oversee multiple projects within the change Program, ensuring Program goals are reached.

Monitor expenditure and costs against delivered and realized benefits as the Program progresses

Ensure effective quality assurance and the overall integrity of the Program both internally & externally

Plan and manage the Program through proactively monitoring its progress, resolving issues and initiating appropriate corrective action

Manage and maintain a strong relationship with FNZ customers across all elements of the Program. Ensuring their expectations are managed and align to our delivery planning.

Understand the commercial environment FNZ operates within and work closely with the Client Director to deliver against FNZ's commercial agreements.

Delivery Management

Delivery Management

Manage the delivery of the Program through the full project lifecycle, from initiation through to implementation.

Ensure the Program delivers in-line with the FNZ Software Delivery Lifecycle (SDLC) and associated quality controls are met. Tracking that these are actively followed and managed across the Program.

Create and maintain an end to end project plan that delivers the agreed scope of the project to time, budget and quality criteria.

Ensure the FNZ Solution Center understands all build scope through approved designs and specifications in accordance with the SDLC, collaborate with them to create a build and test plan that delivers against project milestones.

Be actively involved in the delivery of each project by coordinating the day to day running of the project to ensure it achieves its expected milestones.

Have strong relationships and take accountability for working with all FNZ Directorates / areas to agree scope, timelines and artefacts in order to ensure delivery of the project in line with overall agreed plan.

Take accountability for the overall estimating process for a project, and work collaboratively with the Lead Solution Consultant, Delivery Manager, and the Test Manager to estimate the work effort required to deliver the project scope within the agreed timescales and budgets.

Maintain accurate project status and project financial reporting for the entire project team.

Provide timely, precise, accurate and comprehensive project MI both internally and externally.

Understand the FNZ products and technology so you are able to identify and manage risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies through the full project lifecycle.

Build mitigation plans for all risks and issues, and take ownership for ensuring these mitigation plans are executed, or escalated as is appropriate.

Have strong relationships with 3rd party suppliers and ensure they are engaged appropriately and contracts are in place and managed to ensure the required outcomes for FNZ.

Manage all operational readiness activities associated to the project, as required, ensuring that the appropriate training and handovers take place ahead of go-live.

Undertake post implementation reviews and ensure that lessons learned are captured and shared with the rest of the PM community.

Team Leadership

Team Leadership

Lead, manage and motivate a virtual team in multiple geographic locations, communicating project progress, and ensuring all team members take accountability for delivery.

Motivate, mentor and encourage project team members to utilize themselves to their full potential and take accountability for their assigned work.

Create a culture of continuous improvement on the project, support process improvement initiatives, and identify new process improvements.

Swiftly resolve any conflicts within the project team and / or related stakeholders both within and out with FNZ.

Be an active member of the PM community within FNZ, contributing to team sessions, supporting other Junior PMs and sharing best practice and lessons learned.

Help to develop and support other project managers within the project delivery team.

Knowledge of the regulatory environment in which FNZ operates, be responsible for managing the impact of all regulatory changes and ensure future change is built into project plans so FNZ clients have a compliant platform.

About FNZ

FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone, everywhere can invest in their future on their terms. We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry, but complexity holds firms back.

We created wealth's growth platform to help. We provide a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. All in a regulated financial institution.

We partner with over 650 financial institutions and 12,000 wealth managers, with US$1.7 trillion in assets under administration (AUA).

Together with our customers, we help over 26 million people from all wealth segments to invest in their future.