What are the responsibilities and job description for the Murex Project Manager position at TheStaffed?
Our client, a top tier Management & Strategy Consulting firm if looking for a Murex Project Manager.
About the team:
Capital Markets is part of Capco’s DNA. In fact, the Capco name was inspired by this domain. The Capital Markets team delivers expert consulting skills and deep product and functional knowledge across all areas of the front office, operations, technology, risk, finance and compliance. Our clients include the largest investment banks, global universal banks and capital markets divisions from regional banks across the country and around the globe.
Our delivery expertise spans across launching new lines of business, coordinating high-impact regulatory response programs, leading complex integration projects and analyzing the dependencies in an application rationalization effort. We have a consistent track record in helping clients with significant cost reductions and ensuring our clients grow, change and compete.’
About the Job:
As a Principal Consultant at Capco you will be playing a key role in the delivery of projects and development of new business opportunities, working on client site to deliver change initiatives for leading clients across Financial Services, particularly the Capital Markets space.
What You’ll Get to Do:
- Maintain program scope, governance, and communication plan
- Create project meeting materials and meeting output as per the communication plan, including:
- Open items, issues, and risks log to be reviewed at daily technology touchpoints to track progress of program
- Weekly status report which will support performance associated with the governance of the program such as IT PMO, Technology, Operations, Middle Office, Product Control, Risk, Credit, Front Office, IPV and Murex
- Bi-weekly Steering Committee presentation including program status, key risks, issues and dependencies, change requests impacting scope, budget and timeline and any other items requiring program sponsor level decisions
- Manage and track integrated Murex and Company end-to-end program plans for Day 2 functional deliveries and enhancements
- Coordinate Murex and Company dependencies and logistics to support program activities
- Manage overall testing activities for major releases requiring Murex binary updates
- Manage Murex and Company change request process through established governance model
- Administer and own program open items, issues and risk log o Drive program level risks and issues to resolution
- Support and monitor progress of test planning and execution (for all test phases)
- Manage Murex and Company defect management process utilizing Company JIRA tool and Murex PEGA tool
- Provide oversight and ensure timely scheduling to merge defect fixes into test environments with environment management team
- Host required meetings with Murex and Company to resolve open defects and monitor progress of testing
- Develop key metrics to report test status including progress, open defects, issues/risks impacting testing stream to be leveraged in overall program meetings
What you’ll bring with You:
- 8 years of Management Consulting experience in Capital Markets and Securities related businesses
- Proven track record in project-oriented Change Management and Business Development
- Analytical ability to evaluate the root causes of the problems and aptitude to understand complex workflows
- Experience in conducting project migrations / conversions is required
- Ability to understand institutional Broker-Dealer businesses, control infrastructure and technology impacts
- Proven track record of high-quality delivery across the project lifecycle
- Solid stakeholder management, including advising and influencing clients as it relates to processes
- Exposure to different methodologies and approaches (e.g., PMP, Prince 2, Agile, Waterfall)
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Proven team leadership experience, people and team development
- Ability to use their own initiative to take proactive decisions and make tangible progress
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to varying levels of client stakeholders
- Exceptional presentation skills, including the use of MS PowerPoint
- Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills
- Ability and flexibility to work on a range of different business areas as a consultant
- Bachelor’s degree
