Senior Project Manager - London - Fintech

This job is with Adaptive Financial Consulting Ltd, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly. WE ARE: At Adaptive, we are a financial consulting firm that partners with capital, commodity, and digital market participants. We value differentiation through technology. Our experienced teams design and deliver complex front-office technology solutions using our proven accelerators to create long-term competitive advantage. Our clients include the world’s leading investment banks, investment managers, fintechs and capital market service providers. With a global reach with offices in Manila, London, New York, Barcelona and Montreal, we have a proven track record delivering powerful, elegant and intuitive trading technology solutions. We are now looking for a Project Manager to join our London team on a new exciting project ! If you feel like this is you, you might be a perfect fit for this role! YOU ARE: Credible and trusted by clients, with a strong consulting presence. Confident to reason, debate and push back when needed, advocating for and protecting your team. A senior delivery professional with a strong background in software delivery and software service delivery. Highly experienced in Agile, including the end-to-end Agile delivery process, and confident challenging it where it isn’t working. Skilled in creating and maintaining clear documentation, including setting up wikis for highly bespoke software. AS A PM YOU WILL ENSURE THAT: Adaptive’s standard PM practices are combined with the programme-level planning, governance and release discipline used across the Accelerator teams. Productisation and client delivery move forward together, with the roadmap turned into executable plans. The team has a clear, prioritised plan covering product roadmap, client commitments, releases and dependencies. Engineering, BA, QA, SRE, Product, Consulting and Client Delivery understand their responsibilities and can work without avoidable blockers. Stakeholders receive accurate, timely information on progress, risk, scope, cost and decisions. Releases are planned, tested, documented and communicated with clear go/no-go ownership. Product and client feedback is converted into structured backlog items, roadmap decisions and reusable product knowledge. Adaptive can forecast delivery capacity, revenue, margin and risk with confidence. YOU WILL: Manage the project: Own and maintain an integrated delivery plan and prioritised backlog connecting product outcomes, client milestones, resourcing, and dependencies. Proactively identify, track, and mitigate cross-team dependencies and RAID items across technical, operational, and commercial domains. Provide regular status reporting, burndown tracking, and actionable options to address slippage or scope changes. Manage the sprint and release cadence, overseeing scope cut-offs, go/no-go readiness, non-functional requirements, and support handover. Protect product quality and release confidence by ensuring thorough testing, operational readiness, and transparent blocker triage. Manage a team: Coordinate distributed teams and regional leads, address capacity or capability gaps, and support onboarding. Drive continuous improvement via retrospectives, servant leadership, and resolving recurring challenges. Empower team decision-making while expanding domain, delivery, and product expertise. Foster a collaborative, psychologically safe environment across regions, roles, and workflows. Drive cross-functional alignment across Engineering, QA, BA, SRE, Product, and Client Delivery while ensuring accountability. Manage people: Hold routine 1:1s to discuss feedback, well-being, growth, and performance alignment. Set clear goals and standards, monitor progress, and provide timely guidance. Recognise high impact and provide objective input for performance, promotion, and compensation reviews. Resolve performance issues or friction fairly, escalating to People Ops or leadership when necessary. Manage resourcing: Establish risk mitigation strategies and succession plans for key roles, governance, and client relationships. Manage client everything will be explained to you step by step by your recruiter. A little tip for you during those stages: Collaboration is massively important to us, so don't hesitate to share your thoughts, ask questions, ask for help if needed, etc DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION: Diversity and inclusion are key to a great workplace, and Adaptive is better when it’s more representative of the world around us. We want everyone to feel comfortable bringing their whole selves to work without any fear of judgment or negativity. All we ask is that our colleagues are respectful, collaborative, passionate about what they do, and have the skills needed to be successful in their roles. Background check: the employment/engagement is subject to an acceptable background check that will be run by Adaptive.