Senior IT Project / Programme Manager

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Senior IT Project / Programme Manager

Keywords: Trading, Markets, Murex, Programm Manager, FX, Forex, Investment Bank, Project Manager

Our client is currently looking for a "hands on" Project / Programme Manager with experience in executing projects in an investment banking environment (trading, front office, middle office), and ideally an understanding of the murex product suite. This is a contract assignment with one of our clients in Zurich.

Tasks

* Take ownership of and manage projects that are part of a large transformation programme in the investment bank of our client

* Liaise with front office units (trading and sales) regarding required changes to in-house trading applications as well as off-the-shelf systems (incl. Murex).

* Requirements engineering defining, validating, executing and testing of business requirements, including articulating, setting priorities, facilitating the entire requirement engineering process (end to end - starting from feasibility study until Go-Live support / production)

* Analyzing and specifying of interfaces and downstream requirements

* Leading the entire program / project lifecycle (including issue and risk management etc.)

* Excellent stakeholder management skills (wide range of stakeholders, e.g. IT, Business, cross divisional departments, contractors and vendors)

* Leading and communicating to Steering Committee's with very senior stakeholders

* Leading a team of up to 4 Project Managers / Business Analysts

Requirements

* Solid Project Management experience applying appropriate methodologies, e.g. waterfall, agile / scrum (scrum master desirable)

* Strong BA skills, demonstrated passion to determine underling business requirements and to lead the implement the business requirements - end to end (including, specifications, validations, testing and enabling automated testing)

* Excellent financial markets knowledge in Markets / Investment Bank Front Office (domain FX, plain vanilla and exotics, OTC's, IRs, etc.)

* Solid experience in Trading and Sales applications, in particular Murex

* Excellent understanding of the entire value chain (Front Office, Middle Office, Risk Management, Operations, Financial Accounting)

* Excellent problem solving skills (in particular complex issues and problems in a Trading and Sales environment)

* Proficient in various PM / BA tools, JIRA, MS Office applications, VISIO, etc.

* Proven track record for successful delivery of FX IT platforms

* Works very well in in a fast paced and dynamic environment

* Excellent English

To find out more about Huxley, please visit www.huxley.com

Huxley, a trading division of SThree Partnership LLP is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy | Registered office | 1st Floor, 75 King William Street, London, EC4N 7BE, United Kingdom | Partnership Number | OC387148 England and Wales