FX IT Project Manager & PMO

Role Profile

• Mobilise projects within the 2024 FX Venues BAU Portfolio
• Build, agree, socialise and manage detailed end-to-end plans for 2024, capturing and documenting inter-dependencies between the deliverables
• Ensuring live service is not negatively impacted for the FX Business and Clients as project changes are rolled out.
• Mobilise appropriate governance (SteerCos & Working Groups) to ensure there is transparency and accountability across the partner community.
• Define and report on progress and achievement of key milestones.
• Clearly define roles, responsibilities, and identify / address areas of concern.
• Manage issues and risks within this programme, bringing up as appropriate to the FX Venues BAU and Capital Markets Portfolio Boards.
• Continually manage dependencies, ensuring smooth and timely delivery of the key milestones.
• Represent assigned projects at the FX Venues BAU Board, providing the following updates:
  • Report on progress made and plans for the next reporting period.
  • RAG status
  • Return to Green plans
  • Key risks and issues.
  • Financial position
• Manage the financials for assigned projects, i.e.:
  • Create and maintain the 2024 forecast
  • Track actuals and adjust accordingly to ensure projects remain within budget
• Maintain Clarity, i.e.:
  • Breakthroughs
  • Risks / Issues
  • Status updates
  • Cost plans
• Create and maintain project artefacts for the workstream, ensuring compliance to LSEG's Change Framework.
• Providing PMO support to the incumbent Programme and Project Managers, i.e.
  • Assistance in the creation of Portfolio Board, Steering Committee and Working Group materials
  • Maintenance of breakthroughs, risks, issues and dependencies.
  • Creation and maintenance of cost plans in Clarity.
  • Creation of Change Requests to be ratified at the appropriate governance routine
  • Analysis of the accuracy of forecasting (forecast vs actuals) and adjusting to ensure projects remain within budget
  • Assistance with the creation and maintenance of Purchase Orders

Essential

• A strong product knowledge of FX
• Previous experience (+5 years) in Project Management
• Experience of developing, implementing and delivering projects in a highly matrixed and fast paced businesses
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office, including MS Project
• Excellent at managing and influencing a wide network of collaborators
• Excellent planning and organisational skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Excellent knowledge of financial management, risk, and project management methodologies
• Excellent documentation skills; ability to create high quality Working Group materials
• Previous experience in managing cost plans
• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Resilient - outcome and delivery focused with the ability to operate in a sophisticated environment
  

Desirable

• Project Management qualifications, e.g. Prince2, PMP, etc.
• Previous experience using Clarity

Benefits

We are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios! If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as will be supporting you to fast-forward your career!

We maximise each employee's potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe in remunerating our people with competitive salaries and a range of attractive benefits such as:

• 25 days' holiday per year
• 1 additional day off for your Birthday
• Annual wellness allowance
• Share Purchase Plan
• Medical Health Insurance
• Medical Subscription (preventive medical services)
• Dental Coverage
• Life insurance
• Pillar 3 Private Pension
• Meal Vouchers
• Flexible Benefits
• Bookster
• Volunteering Events

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

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