Project Manager - Wallstreet FX Wall Street Systems

Tracking Code
20110085
Job Description

Wall Street Systems (Wallstreet) is the market leader in treasury, central banking and FX trade processing solutions. Its functionally rich and scalable solutions are used by the world?s largest corporations and financial institutions to improve workflow, manage risks and increase overall productivity throughout the enterprise. Wallstreet?s award winning solutions are used by tens of thousands of users to process millions of transactions aggregating to trillions of dollars, every day.

With a 25 year heritage, Wallstreet has an outstanding reputation for quality and responsive service, and prides itself on helping its clients achieve long lasting benefits and results. Its 700 employees service over 650 clients, operating out of 14 offices worldwide.

Wall Street Systems Project Managers are an integral part of our Professional Services division. They work closely with Clients and Wall Street Systems Professional Services team to ensure the highest level of client satisfaction. Their main role is to ensure the successful implementation of our highly specialized financial software. They will ensure projects are implemented within the agreed budgets and timescales.

Key Attributes

Passionate belief that Client Satisfaction is the key measure of project success whilst being able to balance this commitment with the financial parameters of the project
Able and willing to travel

Key Responsibilities

Accurately estimate, build, agree, maintain and communicate multi-phase, multi-tier, multi-party project plans with mixed discipline project teams comprised of Client personnel, 3rd Party personnel and Wall Street Systems personnel
Provide direction and leadership to the Wall Street Systems and client project teams, driving and managing projects with medium to high business complexity and significant cultural challenges. Perform tasks in a timely manner, while remaining cognisant of project deadlines, budgets and client expectations
Ensure consistency between client proposals, contracts, project scope and project definition documents in terms of effort, resources, costs, timescales, deliverables, responsibilities, milestones and payment terms
Hold Project P&L responsibility, managing, controlling and monitoring project risks, progress against time and budget, redressing project slippage and reporting deviations in excess of tolerance
Manage the project scope, instilling a strong change control culture into the project lifecycle, implementing and controlling processes to manage change requests, agree requirements, accurately estimate additional project components, timescales and costs in time and materials, fixed price or share risk situations, and integrate into the overall project plan
Ensure the plan is adequately resourced and that the project team and other relevant parties work to the plan
Ensure the correct software components are delivered for a project and incorporate any operating system or application software release / upgrade process into the lifecycle of a project
Effectively escalate issues to the appropriate level within the client?s or the Wall Street Systems? organization when necessary
Work with sales to ensure appropriate customer expectations management at all times. In particular, assist sales teams with scoping projects, the production of high quality proposals, selling the project and in the preparation of contractual documentation pertaining to the project. Able to identify and capitalise on further sales opportunities and to engage with clients and prospects to demonstrate the value of Wall Street Systems? project management.
Operate as a mentor and role model for Wall Street Systems? project team, setting high standards of professional behavior. Provide support and encouragement to the team, involving line managers and HR as required.
Obtain client acceptance of the solution and provide effective hand-over to client services and account management at project completion
Ensure correct client invoicing based upon the financial terms / milestones for the project.

Required Skills

Results orientated individual who is self reliant and self starting
Deep knowledge of financial industry, instruments and market processes
Thorough understanding of treasury functions within a corporate treasury
Certification as a project manager is beneficial (PMI, PRINCE 2, etc.)
Excellent communications skills ? verbal, written and presentation skills
Enthusiastic/passionate leader and team player
Good understanding of project methodologies
Strong organization and interpersonal skills
Commercially astute and a strong negotiator
Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously, and to identify and manage project issues quickly and effectively
Fluent spoken and written English- other languages are an asset
Strong working knowledge in information systems, specifically UNIX/Windows NT environments

Required Experience

Typically a Project Manager at Wall Street Systems will have the following experience:

At least seven years experience in financial markets working in one or more of the following environments:
Systems integrator
Significant management consulting company
As a specialist for a treasury software company
Management level within a leading financial institution
Management level within the group treasury department of a large multinational where a leading role in the implementation of treasury and capital market systems has been held
Management level within an investment management firm;
Completed a minimum of five full lifecycle implementations/projects in excess of 1000 man days effort where at least one project exceeded 3000 man days.
Extensive experience delivering software based solutions and implementing treasury management solutions
Experience in different levels of demanding projects, with a proven track record in project management delivering to time and budget
Proven leadership capabilities
Experience of working on an international basis and managing multi-national projects
Experience interacting with clients at senior management and board level and ability to represent Wall Street Systems diplomatically and effectively

Location:	30 Broad Street 24th Floor New York, NY 10004 United States