Project Manager

About the role:

We are looking for a motivated Project Manager with accountability for the delivery of large-scale technical software projects, through ongoing focused management and coordination with the dedicated project teams based across various international locations.

Role Responsibilities/Accountabilities:

• Engage with project sponsors/partners to agree project objectives, achievements and success criteria and utilise ongoing status reports to update key partners on project progress.
• Develop and lead detailed project plans, including schedules, cost estimates, resource plans, communication plans, risk mitigation plans and issue resolution plans.
• Evaluate trade-offs between project size and complexity, cost, risk, and partner value, prioritising high impact objectives and activities.
• Perform ongoing financial reviews, tracking and measuring financial performance and results against plan and validating financial forecasts and supports the project budget request process.
• Ensures all projects align to LSEG Group Standards for project methodology, governance and risk management, representing projects in various governance forums.

Key Responsibilities/Accountabilities:

• Work with broader technology, operational & business teams to continuously improve end - to – end service experience and associated cost of delivery.
• Planning accountability across projects, to ensure technology plans are fully and accurately reflected in overall plans, roadmaps and systems.
• Ensure ongoing alignment with the Enterprise Architecture team to identify new capability demands that are not on the roadmap, to ensure strategic direction is not compromised.
• Lead and work closely with all members of the team, including business analysts, architects, QE and development management to ensure all aspects from intake, requirements, design and testing are fit for purpose and delivered efficiently for planning and execution.
• Collaborate with the Scrum Masters and Vendor management (where required) and QE to ensure the delivery performance of the teams throughout execution and see opportunities to optimize timeliness, efficiency and quality.
• Lead analysis and ensure all impacts of dependencies are addressed in the overall project plan. Effectively work across the organization to ensure all dependent teams are aligned with the project plans and schedules.
• Deliver an effective governance structure to resolve any risks and issues which may impact successful Project Delivery.
• Ability to proactively handle risk and issues for the workstream in a timely manner and have the confidence to make decisions to mitigate or resolve when required. Work closely with workstream lead to ensure RAIDS are fully detailed, mitigated and raised.
• Maintain a detailed understanding of the roadmap and business performance and ensure that regular reporting is available and effective.

Key Skills:

• Experience of working in a sophisticated, high-paced environment with a distributed structure.
• A deep understanding of the financial services / banking / investment industry, with experience in market data.
• A strong background in tech development would be beneficial due to the technical nature of the projects.
• Validated experience in delivering large-scale technical programmes in a hands-on capacity.
• Extensive partner management experience up to senior level.
• Strong communication and presentation skills including the ability to establish relationships and communicate across all management and interpersonal levels.

Key Partners:

• Programme / Portfolio Manager
• Scrum Masters/Scrum of Scrums
• Development / Delivery Managers
• QE Lead/ Lead BA/ Lead Solutions architects/ Service (Release to BAU)
• Product Owners
• Business Sponsors
• Solution Managers
• PMO

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience preferred.
• A minimum of 5 years of professional experience in business operations/planning and/or project management required
• Certification or Management qualification or affiliation with professional management organization

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

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