Project Manager

Message Automation is Broadridge’s Strategic solutions for trade and transaction reporting; trade position and activity verification for Sell Side and Buy Side Clients. Industry-leading technology built for derivatives connectivity and trade-based regulatory reporting to help companies better cope with regulatory changes coming from the G20 derivatives reform agenda. The Project Manager will be delivering Client Implementation Projects for predominantly this Business Line.

**The Project Manager will be accountable for**:
Managing the delivery of Client Implementations within an Agile environment. Participating in all phases of onboarding clients i.e. scoping, data integration / configuration definition, user testing support, training and migration activities.
- **Planning & Tracking**; Defining and tracking the Program Increments, aligned to the Project and Product Roadmaps, you will actively participate in and chair the Program Increment planning, aligning all delivery teams both Broadridge and client
- **Reporting**:Providing concise and accurate information to inform and drive actions you will report to the client and internally on progress during the project
- **Acceptance**:Working with all stakeholders you will ensure that there is a clearly defined, managed, and tracked acceptance definition plan for the completion of the program and interim phases.
- **User Testing Management**: Managing and coordinating teams during all implementation test phases, aligned to the acceptance definition, you will ensure that there is effective issue/defect management and prioritization.
- **Migration**:Working with our clients and conversion analysts you will manage the definition, delivery, and acceptance approach for migrating data from their legacy system(s) to our target processing solution.

**You will also have responsibilities relating to the following areas.**
- **Scope Definition**: You will work with the Scope Owners, Business Analysts, and your client, ensuring that our delivery plans and activities are aligned with the agreed solution scope.
- **Business Case Management**: Along with the Program Manager you will ensure that the project is tracked to the agreed business case. Closely controlled **Change Management** being key whether for internal or client defined changes which is outside of the baseline scope of activities.
- **Risk Management**: This will feed into the overall governance and controls and you will be responsible for identify, managing and mitigating risks and issues that occur during the implementation.
- **Product Readiness**:Working with our service delivery teams and the client you will navigate the move from implementation to live running and support.
- **Infrastructure**: You will ensure that the infrastructure needs are clearly understood and aligned with the client and project definition for the teams to deliver.
- **Quality**:Feedback and effective data to the relevant teams on the quality of deliveries is key so that our products and services are the highest quality. You will ensure that this is provided across the various implementation activities.
- **Collaboration**; Working closely with internal (incl. remote) teams on delivery of implementations activities and providing mentoring/guidance to junior members of the team.
- **Continual Improvement**: Actively monitoring and reviewing the implementations processes and driving initiatives to continually improve them, working with your peers to drive this change.

**Qualifications**

**Essential requirements / competencies for this position are**:

- Proven track record of project delivery within a banking environment and experience of large-scale projects.
- Strong experience of vendor / client relationship management, preferably from the vendor perspective.
- Excellent organizational and planning skills
- Strong leadership qualities and self-motivated, and the ability to work across globally dispersed teams of professionals.
- Ability to work effectively under pressure, with a flexible approach to work, within a dynamic and fast-paced environment
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to interface effectively with both business and technology stakeholders at any level
- Great interpersonal skills and the ability to influence effective outcomes
- Critical-thinking and time critical problem-solving skills
- Experience of working in an agile environment,
- Ability to understand and challenge the detail.
- Knowledge and use of JIRA and Confluence
- Work in a hybrid model with some days in workplace with the Delivery team and other days from home
- Ability to travel to client site across APAC where required to support delivery of Implementation activities.
- Project Management Certifications such as PMP and PRINCE2 are highly desirable for this role
- Agile Certifications are desirable
- Regulatory Reporting knowledge (HKMA, MAS, Mifid, CFTC, Emir) would be nice to have