The Migration Project Manager is responsible for the day to day management a portfolio of migration projects to contracted time, quality, and budget requirements.
This role will support the Global Head of Migrations in the delivery of technical migration projects, managing a distributed team of migration SMEs in multiple locations. The role requires strong planning skills, ability to make solution based recommendations based on proactive identification, management and resolution of risks and issues throughout the full project lifecycle.
This is a client facing role and requires the ability to build strong relationships with customers, often at a senior level.
Specific Role Responsibilities
Delivery Management
- Support the delivery of the migration projects through the full project lifecycle, from initiation through to implementation.
- Develop and maintain an end to end portfolio plan that delivers the agreed scope of the project to time, budget and quality criteria.
- Input into the overall estimating process for the migration projects, and working collaboratively with the Migration SMEs to estimate the work effort required to deliver the project scope within the agreed timescales and budgets.
- Provide timely, precise, accurate and comprehensive project MI and reporting to the Global Head of Migrations
- Identify and manage risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies through the full project lifecycle. Ensure mitigation plans are in place for all risks and issues, making fact based recommendations to the Global Head of Migrations to facilitate the correct mitigation plans.
- Support migration operational readiness planning, communicating with the appropriate stakeholders to facilitate dependency management and planning.
- Facilitate post implementation review and take responsibility for ensuring that lessons learned are captured and shared with the rest of the PM community.
- Lead, manage and motivate a virtual team in multiple geographic locations, communicating project progress, and ensuring all team members take accountability for delivery.
- Provide coaching, advice and support performance management with line managers where necessary.
- Ensure a culture of continuous improvement on the project, support process improvement initiatives, and identify new process improvements.
- Is an active member of the PM community, contributing to team sessions and central improvement initiatives, and sharing best practice and lessons learned.
- This role is in scope for activities which have an indirect impact on CASS processing which takes place within FNZ for FNZ and/or FNZs clients. This role has a requirement to remain up to date with CASS developments and changes as communicated with FNZ.
- Degree qualified or equivalent experience
- Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail
- Self-starter, able to work independently.
- Strong leadership skills.
- Good communication skills and capable of working with customers and internal staff.
- Experience of managing stakeholders to executive levels.
- PMP, PRINCE 2 or equivalent qualification preferred.
- Expert in Microsoft Project
- Previous experience in large scale data or asset migration projects and data modelling preferred.
FNZ is a global platform-as-a-service provider, transforming the way wealth is managed. FNZ partners with banks, broker dealers, insurance companies, asset managers & wealth managers, leveraging technology to enable wealth services that are digital, personalized, high-quality and low cost. FNZ is responsible for more than $1 trillion in assets under administration (AuA) in 16 international markets across UK, North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, and employs over 4, 000 people worldwide.
About FNZ Culture
Our culture is what drives us. It's at the heart of who we are and everything we do. It's what inspires, excites and moves us forward. Our ambition is to create a culture for growth, one that opens up limitless opportunities for our employees, customers and the wider world. At FNZ we know that great impact is only possible with great teamwork.
Thats why we value the strength and diversity of thought in our global team.
The FNZ Way is the cornerstone of what we do. It is comprised of four values that set the standard for how everyone at FNZ interacts with each other, with our customers, and with all our diverse stakeholders around the world.
Customer obsessed for the long-term. Think big and make an impact. Act now and own it all the way. Challenge, commit and win together. Read more about The FNZ Way and our values: www.fnz.com/culture
Opportunities
- Right from day one, you will work alongside exceptional, multicultural teams - experts in their respective fields - who will inspire and challenge you to make your greatest impact.
- Be part of a highly successful, rapidly growing, global business that is leading the delivery of financial services via cloud computing and partners with some of the worlds largest companies;
- Working in a flexible and agile way that meets the needs of the business and personal circumstances;
- Remuneration, significant financial rewards and career advancement is based on individual contribution and business impact rather than tenure or seniority;
- We provide global career opportunities for our best employees at any of our offices in the UK, EU, US, Canada, South Africa and APAC.
At FNZ, we recognise that diversity, equity and inclusion are important factors contributing to our success. We embrace the unique perspective and capabilities of our current and future employees, which will help us continue to drive innovation and achieve our business goals. Recruitment decisions at FNZ are made in a non-discriminatory manner without regard to gender, ethnicity/race, faith, age, nationality, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, socio-economic background, disability or military veteran status where all applicants and employees are valued and respected.
In addition, we want to ensure accessibility needs are well supported, if you require specific support, please advise us.
