Principal Project Manager
About The Position
Join some of the most innovative thinkers in FinTech as we lead the evolution of financial technology. If you are an innovative, curious, collaborative person who embraces challenges and wants to grow, learn and pursue outcomes with our prestigious financial clients, say Hello to SimCorp! At its foundation, SimCorp is guided by our values — caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous. Our people-centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success. We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered. At SimCorp, we enable some of the biggest financial institutions in the world by simplifying their accounting, operations, and investments. High quality, performing, secure, and cost-effective software and professional project delivery are at the core of what we do. We are looking for an experienced Project Manager to lead complex and strategic client projects. This role will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including sales, product development, and customer support, to ensure a seamless transition from sales to implementation.
Requirements
- You understand business processes across asset managers, fund managers, banks, insurance companies and pension plans.
- You have experience in delivering multi-stream projects in complex business environments.
- SimCorp One (or similar platform) implementation experience
- PMI/PMP/Prince 2 or equivalent certification
- Solid understanding of investment operations
- Familiarity with implementation focused projects in the Financial Technology sector
- Leadership, communication and presentation skills
- Negotiation and conflict management skills
- Ability to work on projects across different time zones
- Readiness to travel to customer sites or hybrid out of an office 2x/week
Responsibilities
- Leading high complexity SimCorp implementation projects: client engagement, resourcing, financial management, and stakeholder management
- Providing greater customer value and outcomes while better measuring and reducing risk for SimCorp
- Overseeing requirements and configuration builds
- Managing implementation-related workstreams: identifying all required tasks and dependencies, working with business consultants to time/resource estimate for inclusion in the overall program plan, as well as providing regular status updates
- Collaborating with internal implementation teams and individual contributors, as well as other Engineering and Product management roles
- Contributing to improvement and documentation of best practices for implementation projects globally in collaboration with Global PMO
- Creating and maintaining required project artefacts such as project plans, reports and RAID change requests
- Establishing and managing transparent project governance structure and adhesion to standard project management processes and procedures
- Managing delivery on time, budget, and quality relative to the baseline project plan and associated financials and in accordance with the Statement of Work
- Communicating business risks and issues to our customers, putting the customer in a position to make informed decisions using data and metrics
- Displaying confidence in presenting to all levels in an organization and understanding an audience when communicating
- Acting as a mentor and coach to less experienced colleagues
Benefits
- health care
- leave
- retirement plans
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
No Education Listed
