Program And Project Manager

Role & responsibilities

- Support the successful and timely on-boarding of our clients third party service providers onto the new IMOS strategic infrastructure.

- Work with product, operations, reference data, testing and technology partners to define the high level scope, future third party model and onboarding plan.

- Play a pivotal role in establishing and managing third party relationships and driving third party change throughout onboarding and migration process.

- Execute the Third Parties onboarding and migration plan including: outreach to third parties, confirming target state connectivity, connectivity execution and testing, preparation for migration and, finally, migration on the IMOS strategic infrastructure.

- Establish dashboards and metrics, demonstrating progress and high quality of support to clients and senior management with clear and consistent statistics and commentary.

- Support internal change to ensure we are creating a diverse high performing team with an ethos of continuous learning and development.

Qualifications and Skills:

- Ability to engage effectively with clients, third party service providers and partner with other project teams during the planning, onboarding and migration process.

- Experience working with custodians is required.

- Understanding of the trade lifecycle, cash management and corporate actions across products. Subject matter expertise of third party Swift messaging.

- Excellent communication skills and the ability to build relationships and drive low level change.

- Good problem solving skills to identify, understand and address third party messaging and connectivity issues, for example overcoming non-market standards.

- Strong Project Management, progress tracking and reporting skills, with a willingness to improve processes and enhance controls.

- Ability to manipulate and present data in an attractive and concise manner. Excellent Microsoft Office, in particular Excel and PowerPoint, skills are essential. Experience using Alteryx and Tableau would mark out a potential candidate.

- Motivated and able to deliver with minimal supervision, whilst working effectively in an office based team and virtually across multiple locations.