Career
Mid-level project manager required to join our dynamic wealth management company. This is a great opportunity to build on your financial services experience supporting multiple project workstreams encouraging your growth on a path towards Programme Director. Its a hands on role with senior stakeholders, but also responsible for your own admin.
About the role
Support the Chief Operating Officer in ensuring Atomos projects are properly programmed, ensure they deliver on time, actions are fully tracked and accounted for. We have an ambitious set of deliverables ranging from process improvements to ad-hoc multi-department multi-disciplinary projects. You will drive workflows, identify and escalate potential bottlenecks, and provide coordination at stakeholder level to ensure a smooth programme of delivery.
Accountabilities
- Support the firm in its roadmap and project management of operational improvements.
- Organising meetings – coordinating/inviting key stakeholders, ensuring updates are provided ahead of time so meetings are focussed on decision making and roadblocks.
- Tracking actions – ensuring a live status of all outstanding actions and reminders to key people.
- Virtual Meeting packs – ensure ahead of key meetings all information is circulated (we’re fully cloud, so its online links and requests for updates)
- Project Management – lead end-to-end oversight and delivery of operational projects ensuring alignment with business goals, timelines, and budgets.
- Stakeholder Management - Coordinate with senior leaders, front office, operations, technology, risk, and compliance teams to understand roadblocks to delivery and report back, manage stakeholder expectations, and provide regular updates.
- Governance & Reporting - Ensure good project governance and support documentation of decisions at committees, maintain risk logs, and status reporting.
- Change Management - Support business readiness and ensuring effective communication to the right people ahead of time.
- Risk & Issue Management - Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate project risks and issues.
- Continuous Improvement - Contribute to the development of project management standards, tools, and best practices within the COO function.
Skills and Experience
- Agile PM Project Management certification.
- Desirable if you have other project qualifications such as Prince2, Scrum Master, or 6 Sigma.
- Proven experience in project management within financial services, ideally wealth or asset management.
- Prior experience of project management supporting operational improvement processes.
- Familiarity with agile and waterfall methodologies.
- Experience managing cross-functional projects involving technology, operations, and front office teams.
- Proficiency in project management software, we use Smartsheets, Microsoft Planner (JIRA could also be helpful).
- Happy to attend our Somerset West offices 3 days per week.
- Comfortable working with both onsite teams and remote teams.
Our agile working environment means you may engage in various tasks and projects, which keeps work interesting and you get to develop and grow.
