Project Manager - BA Skills - Investment Bank Front Office - Business

PROJECT MANAGER - BA/PM HYBRID - DERIVATIVES - BUSINESS CHANGE - INVESTMENT BANK

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

The Project Manager should be comfortable managing a portfolio of small, rapid delivery projects having timelines ranging from 1 to 6 months in duration.  The role is to manage a collection of these small, rapid, Front Office business focused projects and do whatever is required to ensure they get delivered.  Requirements may change on a weekly basis.  This is not a Waterfall methodology approach but a rapid iterative Agile style approach with progress tightly tracked on a weekly basis.

Working directly with the business: Front Office Sales. Legal. Compliance. Traders.

This is a hands-on role and a Hybrid Project Manager/Business Analyst will be considered (provided they are Business focused and not IT/Systems focused).

The types of Business products, processes and risks being looked at include the following:

- Products:  Interest Rate Derivatives, FX Derivatives, FX Spots, FX Forwards
- Processes:  Client Onboarding, Pre-Sales, Documentation, Payments, Risk & Controls, Other
- Risk Types:  Regulatory Risk, Operational Risk, Market Risk

CORE SKILLS

An indicative sample of the types of business mini-projects being worked on includes the following:

- MiFID client classification and Terms of Business repapering of 8000 clients.
- Mapping end to end Pre-Sales Processes
- Surveying client documentation against regulatory requirements
- Rolling out a newly designed product to Real Estate clients
- Reviewing FX Derivatives processes for Regulatory Risk, Market Risk and Operational Risk issues
- Understanding issues around Sales process hand-off points between different clusters (ie Corporate to Investment Bank, Wealth to Investment Bank, etc.)
- Reviewing sales processes across European countries for regulatory, operational and market risk issues
- Working closely with Legal and Compliance on designing new Terms of Business
- Managing Risk and Control Assessment mapping processes
- And many more business related projects

KEY SKILLS

- Have a great, positive attitude and be a team player
- Not be afraid to roll up one's sleeves and actually do some of the work as well as manage it
- Able to cope with a fast paced investment banking environment occasionally having longish hours
- To be willing to do whatever is required to successfully deliver, on time, every time
- Comfortable producing high level Milestone Tracking Plans in Excel and/or PowerPoint
- Needs to be an expert in PowerPoint for senior management presentation skills (professional, corporate looking PowerPoint packs)
- Able to work with Front Office sales people and traders.  The role will sit right on the trading floor.
- You need to be an excellent communicator
- Must be deeply familiar with RAID logs, Project Planning, Stakeholder Management and all the things a hands-on PM would normally do.

Please note that, due to the high level of applications we receive, we are not able to provide individual responses. If you have not heard from us within 5 working days, please assume that you have not been successful on this occasion. Services advertised by Campion Willcocks & Associates Ltd are those of an agency and/or employment business.