Asset & Wealth Management - Birmingham - Associate - Project Manager / Business Analyst
Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Job Description
Wealth Management Engineering requires a hybrid Technical Project / Product Manager & Business Analyst to manage critical growth initiatives and regulatory obligations by leveraging best in class project management skills and strong functional / architectural expertise. We are seeking a Project Manager, Product Manager, Business Analyst with excellent analytical, communication and co-ordination skills to support technology needs across the divisions. The role creates the opportunity for an individual to manage critical/key initiatives for the Asset and Wealth Management Division (AWM) which require an engineering uplift in order to meet new business opportunities and/or respond to industry and regulatory demands.
Roles will include:
* Collaborating with Divisional and Engineering Management, Operations, Legal and Compliance to define and document the problem domain and requirements.
* Work with Engineering leadership and teams (within AWM and across Divisions of the firm) to agree solution design, resourcing and deliverables.
* Supporting the Engineering teams during the entire development lifecycle by liaising with the broader project team to ensure supporting dependencies and deliverables are being met.
* Holding project teams accountable for their commitments, removing roadblocks to their work; leveraging organizational resources to improve capacity for project work.
* Defining, agreeing, tracking key project delivery metrics such as OKRs and Measures of Success and communicating status to senior leadership on a regular basis.
* Acquiring a deep functional knowledge of the problem domain and functional areas, providing an opportunity to demonstrate your intellectual curiosity at all times.
* Asking focused questions and rapidly gain an in-depth understanding of the current processes and compare and relate to similar situations.
* Apply first-principles / critical thinking to challenge assumptions (such as functional requirements and solution designs).
* Conduct detailed problem tracking, resolutions and completion of all actions and issues by their deadlines.
* Escalate items that are unresolved or at risk. Prioritize analysis based on risks and demonstrate ability to work with incomplete information.
Basic skills and Qualifications:
* A predisposition towards action, with the confidence & awareness to drive organisational change in a collaborative manner.
* A deep sense of ownership & accountability for enhancing our firm & doing so in a commercially congruent manner.
* Must demonstrate considerable energy, focus, drive and a sense of urgency to drive forward projects.
* Experience as a Technical Project Manager / Business Analyst within the Financial Services industry (or equivalent, relevant experience e.g. consultancy / software house). Strong understanding and experience of the Technology Concepts and System Development Life Cycle fundamentals.
* Knowledge of, and experience in implementing, project governance best practices and creation of key project artefacts. Experience using key project management tooling.
* Experience and motivation to improve business process efficiency by leveraging technology. Strong track record of leading and delivering complex programs with tight deadlines.
* Excellent critical thinking, analytical and problem solving skills.
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with a proven ability to communicate key messages, escalate issues and drive consensus with senior management.
* Highly motivated individual with the ability to work autonomously as well as in a team and collaboration-oriented environment.
* An understanding of the Investment Banking Business and Financial concepts, products, services and regulations.
* An understanding and experience of the trade lifecycle and functional teams within an investment bank.
* An understanding of the project lifecycle & specifically the software development lifecycle.
* An ability to explain problems and represent solutions at the appropriate level of detail relative to the audience.
Job Info
* Job Identification 142662
* Job Category Associate
* Posting Date 02/25/2025, 11:14 AM
* Locations Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
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