Middle Office Implementation Lead

**Job Summary**:
The Middle Office (MO) Implementation Lead/Oversight Project Manager will be responsible for delivering the end-to-end transformation for the client's middle office. This includes organising, planning, and overseeing the execution of the work required to deliver successful project outcomes. The role requires effective coordination of multiple workstreams, managing their inter-dependencies, including oversight of risks and issues arising. It also includes the coordination of various third-party vendors and oversight and monitoring of their delivery performance.

**Key Responsibilities**:
The MO Implementation Lead/Oversight Project Manager is responsible for overseeing the entire transformation for the client's Middle Office (Investment Services and Data Management).

The MO Implementation Lead/Oversight Project Manager will be a highly skilled project manager that has led large components of a complex middle office transformation in the Asia region.

The MO Implementation Lead/Oversight Project Manager is responsible for the following:

- Lead the Middle Office Transformation including overseeing all requirements gathering, analysis and documentation of client onboarding projects within all in-scope entities for the client.
- Support Programme Workstream Owner(s) in planning, and designing the project plans and proactively monitoring its progress, resolving issues, and initiating appropriate corrective actions.
- Lead the effective adoption of the chosen target operating models that impacts, alters or enhances the Middle office Trade Capture and Trade Matching/Settlement Operating Model through detailed analysis, design, testing, and training rolled out for proposed solutions.
- Establish and maintain strong working relationships with stakeholders from across the wider Programme, as well as business stakeholders and third-party vendors.
- Monitor the performance of third-party vendors and their ability to deliver the scope of services agreed with the client, escalate issues to leadership as required.
- Appropriately assess risk when project decisions are made, demonstrating consideration for the client's reputation, the LBUs and assets, by driving compliance with applicable policies, rules and regulations
- Ensure that the agreed project deliverables are delivered on time, to scope and within budget.
- Manage the scope of a project and if a change is required, Project Managers are to work with Programme Workstream Owners to execute the change process to manage any alteration in scope, resource and/or budget
- Perform risk management activities to minimise project risks by proactively raising risks and issues.

**Qualifications and Education requirements**:

- 15 to 20 years of direct project, programme management and delivery experience, focusing on complex technical-related outcomes. Notably worked on large complex middle office, investment operations and technology transformations
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders
- Highly effective leadership, interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability and experience to operate under stress where time is critical
- The ability to command respect and to create a sense of community amongst the members of the project team and with third-party vendors
- Good knowledge of techniques for planning, monitoring, and controlling programmes
- Excellent multi-vendor management skills
- Good knowledge of programme and project management methods using MSP. In addition, knowledge of Agile and Scrum will be of benefit.
- Sufficient seniority and credibility to advise the Programme Owners and project team members.
- The ability to find ways of solving or pre-empting problems.
- Proven experience setting up programmes for success; proven expertise in delivering projects to time, cost, and quality.
- Knowledge of Programme and project management in a portfolio or as part of a programme environment.
- Excellent influencing /negotiation and planning skills to work with business teams to agree on scope, requirements, and priorities.

**Preferred Skills**:

- Highly developed planning skill
- Great communication skills - Written and verbal
- Good influencing /negotiation skills to work with business teams to agree scope, requirements, and priorities.
- Good team-working skills.
- Knowledge and experience of working within agreed project and change management governance frameworks. Process Modelling and Business Process Management.
- Risk and Issue Management experience