Description
Test Manager - Prince PMI - Investment Bank/Fund Administration - Glasgow
- A strong history of project experience, successfully participating in global multi-location implementation projects
- Thorough understanding of test management disciplines, expected to have been gained through practical experience resulting in a successful track record
- Proven ability to successfully participate and deliver test work streams in a Matrix environment
- Is able to use initiative to accurately assess new situations and potential solutions that have no precedent.
- Able to influence others not under their direct control
- Cultural awareness and able to see things from others point of view
- Strong integrity to deal with conflicting interest from multiple stakeholders
- Experience across a range of banking environments, such as trading, asset management, fund administration, treasury, prime brokerage and so on
- Broad understanding of different markets, asset classes and instruments typically used within investment banking and fund administration, such as equities, commodities, FX, bonds, swaps, options etc
- Experience working with offshore centres and business process migrations
- Ability to work consistently and accurately under pressure to tight deadlines
- Ability to plan and organise workload, taking into account relative and conflicting priorities, seeking win/win solutions where possible and mitigating negative impacts where not
- Strong relationship building and stakeholder management skills
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, and a demonstrable track record of successfully interacting, influencing and communicating at all levels with due regard to the nature of the intended audience. Strong presentation skills
- Good negotiation and conflict resolution skills with the ability to drive and champion change within an environment of comparable size & complexity
- Excellent attention to detail
- A high level of pragmatism and common sense are key.
Preferred
- A strong knowledge of our organisation, our products and our people.
- First Degree or equivalent.
- Professional qualification relevant to the role.
- Formal certification from a recognised professional body (eg Prince & or PMI) preferable.
ROLE:
l successfully deliver new business and/or change for our global clients. We will strive to exceed our clients' expectations, using formal project principles to deliver a professional service on time and to budget, whilst protecting our existing business commitments through effective scope and risk management. Through a collaborative approach with operational and functional teams, implementation will land smoothly into business as usual.
CIT On-boarding covers an implementation that has any of the following characteristics and require client management, oversight, co-ordination or governance:
- Complex funds
- High volume of funds
- New Product
- New Asset Type
- New Fund Type
- New Operating Model required
- Legal Impact
- Credit Application required
- The core product areas covered by the CIT are: All products bought in UK (multi location/product deals) and all products booked in the UK (single location/product deals).
The following events are managed by our Client Implementation Team:
- Fund Take-On
- Fund Take-Off
- New fund launches
- Portfolio Re-organisations
- Change in Custodian
- Fund Mergers
- Fund re-structures