Project Manager - Investment management / Asset Management
- Posted 20 June 2022
- Salary £600 - £650 per day
- LocationSurrey
- Job type Contract
- Discipline Change and Transformation
- ReferenceBBBH134929_1655742643
- Contact NameJim Wylie
Job description
Project / Programme Manager - Asset management / Investment management
Contract role : £650/day
Flexible Working: Working from Home with flexibility to travel to Surrey based office as required
Our client, a leading Investment Management business has an urgent requirement for a Contract Project Manager to assist across their Multi Asset business.
Working closely with the overall programme lead, this Business Focused Project / Programme Manager role will be managing workstreams within the programme and/or take the lead on the delivery of specific projects within the portfolio of work.
The chosen candidate will have extensive experience working within the Investment / Asset Management Industry as a Project Manager, with a strong history of Planning, Tracking and Prioritising 'Business Change' Programmes. You will also have significant experience in presenting back to senior stakeholders.
Essential skills:
- 5 Years + Project management skills as demonstrated by ability to manage initiatives with stakeholders at multiple levels and influence decisions and outcomes
- Emerging leadership skills as demonstrated by the ability to identify business challenges and recommend and shape initiatives to address these
- A strong understanding of business drivers and processes across investment management and asset management operations
- Experience of and desire to work on regulatory driven change initiatives
Highly desirable skills and qualifications:
- Understanding of the investment process
- Understanding of Product related change such as fund launches, pool splits, product structures servicing institutional clients etc
- Experience of Equity, Fixed Income, Multi-Asset and Alternates products or investments
- Experience of change associated with differing fund structures such as SICAV, OEICS etc
- Broader industry awareness including the evolving regulatory landscape and product trends
- Experience of technology change initiatives and agile project management practises