Project Manager and Business Analyst

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Project Manager and Business Analyst Apply locations London time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday job requisition id JR393

The Value of Active Minds

About Jupiter

Jupiter is one of the UK’s leading investment management companies with just over 500 employees and £45.3 billion worth of assets under management (as at 31st December 2024).

Jupiter provides investment services to individual and institutional investors through mutual funds (UK unit trusts, Luxembourg SICAVs and Dublin OEICs), separately managed accounts and sub-advised funds. Jupiter has experienced a period of international growth with offices open in EMEA, APAC and the US.

The majority of our employees are based in our London office located just minutes from Victoria station which provides stair-free access from both the Underground’s Victoria line and National Rail platforms, as well as limited road crossings to the Jupiter office. Our London office was designed to encourage employees to live active, healthy lives with floor-to-ceiling windows that allow for greater natural light and the benefit of a private balcony, table tennis room, cycle storage and on-site shower and locker facilities. The short distance to Green Park and St James’ Park also provides employees with a natural space to relax during their lunch break and a healthy alternative to office-based meetings.

We offer our UK employees a 3:2 hybrid working arrangement where Tuesdays, Thursdays and a third day of your choice are worked from the office. The other two days may be worked from home. This facilitates collaboration and allows employees to maximise productivity whilst maintaining a healthy work/life balance.

Background

This role offers high exposure and requires close collaboration with senior stakeholders across the business. It will require building strong collaborative and cross-functional relationships across many areas of the firm. The role holder will undertake their responsibilities in a way that aligns with our cultural pillars – our clients come first, our value is in our people, we succeed together, we strive to challenge ourselves.

Key Responsibilities

• Building Strategic Funnel: Collaborate continuously with stakeholders to validate strategic changes and develop a robust pipeline. This involves regular communication, understanding stakeholder needs, and ensuring alignment with project goals and company objectives.
• Business Case Definition: Craft comprehensive business cases, quantifying target benefits such as cost efficiencies, revenue generation, and risk reduction, alongside qualitative advantages. These benefits should be clearly defined as targets to ensure measurable outcomes. This includes detailed financial analysis, risk assessment, and alignment with organizational objectives.
• Governance and Delivery Process: Ensure a repeatable delivery process that encompasses all elements of strong governance and transactional delivery. Including maintaining a project RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies), tracking actions, documenting meeting minutes, managing required approvals and signoffs, keeping plans up-to-date, and providing status reports. Adhering to governance frameworks ensures accountability & transparency throughout project lifecycle.
• Transactional Delivery Standards: Execute project tasks and activities using standardized processes and best practices to ensure consistency, efficiency, and quality. This involves implementing standardized processes, utilizing project management tools, and ensuring quality control measures are in place.
• Financial Management: Oversee project financials, including budgeting and comparing actuals to forecasts. This requires meticulous financial planning, monitoring expenditures, and ensuring the project stays within budget while delivering expected outcomes.
• Project Closure: Facilitate the closure process by identifying tasks (with designated owners) for transition to BAU, addressing open issues, and managing RAID. This ensures a smooth handover and that all project deliverables are met.
• Retrospective Process: Conduct retrospectives to capture lessons learned, identify successes, and pinpoint areas for improvement in future projects. This involves gathering feedback from the project team and stakeholders, analyzing project performance, and documenting insights for future reference.
• Post Implementation Review: Lead timely post-implementation reviews to monitor and measure progress on project outcomes, objectives, and benefit realization. This includes evaluating the project’s impact, assessing whether goals were achieved, and identifying any areas for further improvement.
• Business Analysis: Support requirement gathering, user acceptance testing, training and post implementation review, and gathering management information to support benefit realisation:
  • Requirements Elicitation & Documentation: Effectively gathers, structures, and documents business and functional requirements, ensuring traceability and alignment with project objectives.
  • Process Mapping & Business Process Reengineering (BPR): Analyses current and future-state processes, identifying inefficiencies and recommending improvements to enhance business operations.
  • Solution Design & Validation: Collaborates with technical and business teams to ensure solutions align with business needs, validating designs through prototyping, testing, and stakeholder feedback.
  • Data Analysis & Reporting: Utilizes data-driven insights to assess business performance, identify trends, and support decision-making, ensuring accuracy and integrity in reporting.
  • Business Case Development: Develops well-structured business cases that clearly define project objectives, expected benefits, costs, risks, and success metrics aligned with strategic goals.
  • Risk & Impact Analysis: Identifies potential risks associated with business changes, assesses their impact on operations, and develops mitigation strategies to ensure seamless execution.
  • User Acceptance Testing (UAT) & Change Readiness: Defines UAT criteria, facilitates testing cycles, gathers feedback from end users, and ensures that change initiatives are successfully adopted.
  • Documentation & Knowledge Management: Creates clear, comprehensive documentation and ensures proper knowledge transfer, enabling project sustainability and ongoing process improvements.

Desired Skills / Experience

• Extensive and proven experience in a combination of PM and BA roles in financial services
• Familiarity with the Asset Management industry, client trends, competitor landscape, regulatory and operational frameworks
• Experience in delivering large scale programs of work and also comfortable managing multiple, small initiatives
• Experience in project initiation including business case definition, set up, structure and right fit governance.
• Experience in project closure, transition to BAU and post implementation reviews
• Experience in developing complex cross functional road maps and implementation plans, with the ability to identify, track and manage dependencies from multiple sources.
• Ability to multi-task and deliver more than one single initiative at a time.
• Substantial Business Analysis experience to support requirement gathering, user acceptance testing, training and post implementation review, and gathering MI to support benefit realisation
• Experience of working to inflexible and regulatory timeframes.
• Fluency in core technology and data concepts and underpinnings, such as data structure and data quality.
• Knowledge of regulatory landscape.
• Knowledge of programming languages is a plus.
• A commitment to become cognizant of Jupiter’s technical architecture and corporate structure is required.
• Strong understanding of equity, fixed income, and alternative investments.
• Experience of a consultancy background, or a demonstrable ability to show that you can quickly move from project to project and “hit the ground running”, is a plus.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with an aptitude for presenting – tailoring the message based on nature of client and size of audience.
• Results-orientated – self-manage to deliver tasks with high attention to detail.
• Partnership focused – able to understand and connect with various stakeholders across the Company whilst also providing constructive challenges.
• Leadership – can galvanize a team, create momentum, and maintain energy.
• Resilient – able to cope in a fast moving and challenging environment.
• Organised – capable of working to deadlines and multi-tasking.
• Persuasive – demonstrating credibility through knowledge.
• Perceptive – understand perspectives/requirements of investors, sales & clients.
• Team player – helping to build out knowledge, share experience and dependencies with the wider business and Change team.
• Technology proficient – experienced in using various systems, applications, software.

Additional Role Details

• This role is subject to the Conduct Rules set by the FCA.

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