AutoRek
Senior Project Manager
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About AutoRek
AutoRek is a financial data management platform enabling companies to streamline and automate complex and high-volume data management and controls processes. Our customers range from innovative FinTech start-ups to many of the UK and the world’s largest and established banks, asset managers, and insurance companies. Digital data and financial transaction volumes are growing exponentially, this combined with increasing regulatory obligations is driving the demand for improved efficiencies, better control, and management of risk across the financial services industry. The AutoRek platform meets these demands and more, and that is why we continue to be a leading player in the market.
What We’re Looking For
- Day-to-day management of implementations of the AutoRek core financial management solution
- Manage resources, time, scope, and budget on multiple projects by creating and maintaining detailed project plans that emphasize speed to delivery while maximizing the efficient use of resources needed to meet the requirements
- Plan, manage, and communicate the progress of the project, achieving project milestones and maintaining momentum of the project
- Facilitate effective status meetings and touch points with the implementation team and the Customer, providing documented key discussions, actions, risks, and issues
- Provide guidance and mentoring to the implementation team while motivating team resources to work diligently and smartly in the best interest of the Customer and AutoRek
- Facilitate the resolution of issues and roadblocks, managing Customer queries and escalations to a positive resolution
- Escalate risks and issues internally to appropriate colleagues and externally to Customer project management team to resolve or mitigate risks and issues that stand in the way of project success
- Participate in and/or lead the development of key project methodologies and deliverables (e.g., charter, project plan, issue logs, test plan, go live runbooks, etc.)
- Work with the Customer Success, Delivery, and Marketing teams to provide a complete service with the aim of creating referenceable clients and identify opportunities for expansion
- Forecast project resource requirements to support effective decision-making across the company
- Onboard, train, and develop new team members
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Nice to Haves
- PMP Certification is a plus
- FinTech, SaaS, or Finance background
What You’ll Be Doing
As Senior Project Manager, you will be responsible for establishing best-in-class project management methodologies and principles that will facilitate the delivery of AutoRek’s Professional Services implementations for our client base around the globe. You will drive the delivery of our engagements according to the agreed-upon scope, time, and budget whilst ensuring the highest degree of customer satisfaction.
As Senior Project Manager, you will be a crucial player in managing, tracking, and communicating the progress of projects and ensuring top-quality team delivery. From project initiation through to execution, you will be responsible for planning, resourcing, and reporting on the progress of deliverables while controlling scope, change management, risks, and ensuring timely resolution of issues and blockers. The role will involve managing multiple concurrent projects and working with several team members within a matrix environment.
- Extensive project management experience with a proven record of balancing multiple competing priorities and deadlines.
- Extensive experience in documenting and maintaining project plans, risk/issue logs, action item logs, and all other aspects of project hygiene.
- Excellent understanding of the phases of the software development and implementation lifecycle, rich understanding of methodologies, and a passion for best practice.
- Professional management experience with a focus in the areas of professional services delivery, IT project management, and employee development across multiple industries and different company sizes.
- Highly effective interpersonal, organizational, and analytical skills.
- Strong collaborator who can work across all areas of the business from Pre-sales through to Delivery and onto Customer Success.
- Ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment, embracing change and new challenges.
- Comfortable with presenting and liaising at ‘C’ level with internal and external executives.
- Dedication to the craft with a passion for continual improvement.
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Benefits
- 26-day annual leave package, Flexible bank holidays - plus public holidays and your birthday off.
- Salary exchange pension scheme.
- The option to buy extra annual leave days.
- Company Bonus Plan.
- Employee Nominated On-The Spot Bonus Program. Ranging from £100 - £5000!
- Employee-Referral Scheme.
- Private healthcare & hospital cash plan that covers our employees’ partners and dependents.
- 3 x Group Life Insurance.
- Service Recognition Awards - Extra time off & gifts.
- Regular team-building events and monthly all-staff updates from our CEO.
- Opportunities for professional development and growth.
- Access to online learning for all - Pluralsight & Udemy.
- Gym membership discount.
- Byond cashback card – Cashback on purchases from your local high street retailers.
- Salary sacrifice cycle scheme – Our cycle to work benefit - pay nothing upfront and save on the cost of a brand-new bike and accessorise. All while saving the planet by reducing your carbon footprint.
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