LPPI
Project Manager / Business Analyst
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Project Manager / Business Analyst
London, EC2M
About LPPI
One of the key priorities at LPPI is ensuring that our people work every day in an empowered, supportive, diverse and inclusive culture. Practically, this means recognising and valuing the uniqueness of every individual in terms of background, experience, beliefs and circumstances. This starts with the recruitment process, where we partner with agencies who share our common goal and advertise on a variety of job boards to access the broadest spectrum of candidates. And once successful applicants are on board, we trust our people to work in the way that works best for them, which typically involves a mix of office and home working plus an engagement model to ensure frequent two-way feedback.
We are very proud of our culture at LPPI and the benefits it brings to both our people and the business. But don’t just take our word for it! Recently, we invited our entire workforce to describe in three words what is great about us, and they said – our people, flexibility and collaboration.
If you would like to join a company that is inclusive and forward-thinking, please read on.
Role Purpose
LPPI has a large roadmap of change to deliver as part of its continued growth and business plan objectives over the next two to three years, as well as a continual cycle of Adaptive Changes that provide process improvements to the business.
The Project Manager / Business Analyst will work closely with the Business Change Manager (BCM) and Chief Operating Officer (COO) to support LPPI with its delivery of the change roadmap whilst ensuring alignment to the LPPI Project Management Framework and acting as an advocate for the Business Change Office.
The Project Manager / Business Analyst will be responsible for project managing initiatives through to successful delivery as well as analysing business problems, identifying and evaluating options to improve our systems and/or processes and defining business requirements.
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Key Responsibilities
Reporting to the Business Change Manager, the Project Manager / Business Analyst’s core responsibilities are as follows:
Business Analysis
- Elicit requirements from SMEs and business stakeholders to produce clear and accurate Business Requirements Documents (BRD), incorporating both functional and non-functional needs with reference to LPPI’s design principles.
- Provide analysis on proposed new initiatives, assisting the business with options assessment and proposal/recommendation.
- Production of Cost-Benefit Analysis and Business Case documents for executive-level review and approval.
- Provide analysis on new Change Briefs that come into BCO to understand the nature of the change, impact on current processes and operating model, assessing against future-state TOM and design principles.
- Document business processes, capturing both ‘as-is’ and ‘to-be’ states, whilst incorporating and understanding LPPI’s data model.
- Assess impact of proposed initiatives/changes on LPPI’s operating model.
Liaise between the business and IT, facilitating communication between business leaders, SMEs, IT and Business Change.
Project Management
- Full project life cycle ownership: successful project delivery will include full implementation from initiation to deployment.
- Develop and manage all aspects of project engagement from planning, external vendor relationships, communications, resources, legal agreements, change, risks, and issues.
- Take an active part in shaping the solutions being designed and challenge others to ensure results are optimised in line with our target operating model.
- Ensure clear timelines and milestones are agreed with key stakeholders; and, where these are not met, that there is clear escalation and rationale for change in timelines.
- Take ownership of project working groups and/or steering committees.
- Budget ownership and monitoring throughout project lifecycle.
- Manage any Change Requests required due to scope or budget changes.
- Determine resourcing required to support project delivery.
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Requirements for the role
- Experience in leading and managing projects across multiple business functions at an investment management company.
- Experience using Business Process Modelling.
- Experience of requirements elicitation and design, and operating model definition.
- Experience of contribution to/creation of business cases.
- Excellent understanding of project management principles, methods, and techniques.
- Good understanding of the end-to-end processes, systems and data models employed within investment management companies.
- Understanding and experience of client-facing functions within investment management companies.
- Experience of investment operations, including collateral, securities lending, and reporting.
- Sound understanding of IT software and infrastructure.
- Ability to think creatively, challenge the status quo, and lead the problem-solving thought process for complex proposition development.
- Ability to communicate technical topics with a non-technical audience.
- Excellent stakeholder management.
- Good conduct that is consistent with the LPPI values- aligned behaviours.
Reasonable adjustment will be made to working arrangements to accommodate a person with a disability who otherwise would be prevented from undertaking the work.
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