Welcome to Ascenteum, your ultimate solution provider for all your Asset Management and sell Side Capital Markets needs. With over 15 years of experience in the industry, we pride ourselves on being a renowned business transformation service specializing in Capital Market Solutions and investment operations implementations. Our client is a leading Asset Management house.
Role Description • Responsible for developing and maintaining project plan, Agile JIRA board, and project communication tools; adept in both waterfall and agile management methodologies. • Ability to lead the Agile team through Scrum ceremonies and related activities to plan, capture, and meet sprint deliverables; maintain the JIRA board; and provide appropriate reporting metrics and status. • Prior experience with Capital Markets projects involving stakeholders from operations, technology, finance, risk etc. • Prior experience with business process improvement projects involving multiple functional areas (Nice to have) • Responsible for managing a large project team of business analysts, business SMEs, and vendor partners to ensure they stay on track and meet agreed upon deliverables with direction as agreed to by key stakeholders. • Ability to identify/manage risks and issues and collaboratively develop mitigation plans and escalate as appropriate with the team, management, and interfacing teams. • Coordinate completion of required project governance documents/artifacts to meet corporate guidelines. • Accountable for meeting all business requirements from development through implementation. • Partner with PMO organizations to ensure best practices and planning for implementation. • Ability to communicate and work with various business and technical SMEs as well as stakeholders to support the business needs. • Facilitate lessons learned and retain information in a central location for future use.
Qualifications
Expeditor and Expediting skills
Project Management skills
Inspection skills
Logistics Management skills
Excellent organizational and time management skills
Strong leadership and team management abilities
Ability to adapt to changing project needs
Experience in related industries like manufacturing or construction
Professional Experience: • At least 10+ years of professional experience working at the intersection of investment management with a focus on front, middle and back-office operations required.
Excellent interpersonal and team management skills to promote team productivity and cohesion.
Experience leading and managing large, complex agile transformations, with expertise around specific issues that arise with agile in functions including Investment Operations and Portfolio Risk Analytics and beyond (e.g., IT, Finance, Risk, Legal) and / or scaling agile across the broader enterprise.