Associate - Project Manager - Algorithmic Trading

Business Analysis & Project Management

Key responsibilities:

- Project Management of medium to high level complexity projects.

- Adhere to project governance standards and deliver within stated time, cost and risk framework

- Business Analysis of medium to high level complexity projects

- Ensure stakeholder engagement and understand their needs

- Elicit requirements using various analysis techniques

- Manage & coordinate activities of the project team to ensure good quality of deliverables without escalations

- Ensure project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately - Constantly identify, review and address risks & issues

- Actively review project progress adherence to schedule, resource utilization & progress against objective

- Prepare for and host regular working group / steering committee meetings, track actions from each meeting to ensure completion

- Manage user acceptance testing and obtain UAT sign-off

- Formal Project closure, handover and lessons learnt

- Ensure constant sharing of best practices across the team

Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required:

Project Delivery Skills:

Flexibility (Open to Change):

- Adapts effectively to changing plans and priorities

- Stays on target to complete goals regardless of obstacles or adverse circumstances

- Rigorous follow through on all commitments to achieve results

Planning, Organizing and reviewing skills:

- Strong planning, organizing & reviewing skills

Decision Making & Influencing Skills:

Interpersonal and Communication Skills:

- Ability to work with a varied set of individuals across levels

- Initiates and develops business relationships positively

- Positive Persuasion and assertiveness

- Ability to lead key engagements and work with senior stakeholders

Financial Knowledge:

- Understanding of the trade lifecycle

- Understand electronic / algorithmic trading for FX and Rates asset class including controls for eTrading

- Basic understanding of financial products - equity, derivatives, fixed income, FX

- Finance Certification (CFA, FRM, NCFM etc.) will be a plus.

- Ability to analyse data using Alteryx, PowerBI or any other data analysis tool and present the findings to senior management and other stakeholders to drive decisions