Asset & Wealth Management - London - Associate - Technical Business Analyst / Project Management

Wealth Management Engineering requires a hybrid Technical Project / Product Manager & Business Analyst to manage critical growth initiatives and regulatory obligations by leveraging best in class project management skills and strong functional / architectural expertise. We are seeking a Project Manager, Product Manager, Business Analyst with excellent analytical, communication and co-ordination skills to support technology needs across the divisions. The role creates the opportunity for an individual to manage critical/key initiatives for the Asset and Wealth Management Division (AWM) which require an engineering uplift in order to meet new business opportunities and/or respond to industry and regulatory demands.

• Collaborating with Divisional and Engineering Management, Operations, Legal and Compliance to define and document the problem domain and requirements.
• Work with Engineering leadership and teams (within AWM and across Divisions of the firm) to agree solution design, resourcing and deliverables.
• Supporting the Engineering teams during the entire development lifecycle by liaising with the broader project team to ensure supporting dependencies and deliverables are being met.
• Holding project teams accountable for their commitments, removing roadblocks to their work; leveraging organizational resources to improve capacity for project work.
• Defining, agreeing, tracking key project delivery metrics such as OKRs and Measures of Success and communicating status to senior leadership on a regular basis.
• Acquiring a deep functional knowledge of the problem domain and functional areas, providing an opportunity to demonstrate your intellectual curiosity at all times.
• Asking focused questions and rapidly gain an in-depth understanding of the current processes and compare and relate to similar situations.
• Apply first-principles / critical thinking to challenge assumptions (such as functional requirements and solution designs).
• Conduct detailed problem tracking, resolutions and completion of all actions and issues by their deadlines.
• Escalate items that are unresolved or at risk. Prioritize analysis based on risks and demonstrate ability to work with incomplete information.

Basic skills and Qualifications:

• A predisposition towards action, with the confidence & awareness to drive organisational change in a collaborative manner.
• A deep sense of ownership & accountability for enhancing our firm & doing so in a commercially congruent manner.
• Must demonstrate considerable energy, focus, drive and a sense of urgency to drive forward projects.
• Experience as a Technical Project Manager / Business Analyst within the Financial Services industry (or equivalent, relevant experience e.g. consultancy / software house).
• Strong understanding and experience of the Technology Concepts and System Development Life Cycle fundamentals.
• Knowledge of, and experience in implementing, project governance best practices and creation of key project artefacts.
• Experience using key project management tooling.
• Experience and motivation to improve business process efficiency by leveraging technology.
• Strong track record of leading and delivering complex programs with tight deadlines.
• Excellent critical thinking, analytical and problem solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with a proven ability to communicate key messages, escalate issues and drive consensus with senior management.
• Highly motivated individual with the ability to work autonomously as well as in a team and collaboration oriented environment.

Desirable:

• An understanding of the Investment Banking Business and Financial concepts, products, services and regulations.
• An understanding and experience of the trade lifecycle and functional teams within an investment bank.
• An understanding of the project lifecycle & specifically the software development lifecycle.
• An ability to explain problems and represent solutions at the appropriate level of detail relative to the audience.