Investment Banking Project Manager

Ariston Tek is a Software Development and IT Consulting company that has earned itself a reputation for providing professional services and talent with the skills and expertise your business needs to thrive. The company’s customer centric approach along with industry and market specific focus has garnered it the unbeatable support and trust of its clients and candidates in a short span.

Ariston Tek Inc’s strong network and direct links with the key industry players across multiple fields including Telecom, Financial, Media, Insurance and Healthcare work in tandem with its philosophy of working with the best and delivering the best results. This also helps the company in bringing the great people and great organisations together which is the foundation that has made Ariston Tek what we are today.

• Ability to manage, influence and engage senior (Managing Directors and Directors ) stakeholders from the Business, Risk and Infrastructure Functions
• Ability to interpret new regulations and partner with business to drive requirements identification
• Lead strategic IT articulation & decision making around IT architecture and data models to address implementation requirements
• End to end management of infrastructure delivery, working closely with Business and Risk counterparts to support any required new business process
• Coordinate across global platforms for Market Risk Management to ensure that required changes are planned and implemented
• Day to day program management to ensure delivery requirements are met
• Planning of implementation roadmap, including articulating development estimates
• Working with Application Services to maintain both momentum and client interaction through the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)
• Face off to Production Support personnel around issues, risks, production problems, product direction and complexity and build their understanding of requirements to help production scale support team appropriately
• Financial Management understanding and tracking to ensure program remains on budget
• Organisation around administration for weekly reports & tracking overall progress of the program
• Ensure dependencies from other functions are identified and managed appropriately to ensure seamless delivery

• Preferred:
  Educated to degree level
• Preferred:
  Understanding of Agile/Scrum methodology
• Experience in delivering new or changed IT infrastructure for large, complex, multi-business/multi-functional programs
• Full understanding of the SDLC
• Proficient Stakeholder / Sponsor management
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Motivated to ‘get the job done’
• Structured in approach and well organized
• Ability/experience in negotiation of external technology vendor contracts
• 5 years+ managing projects/programs
• 3 years+ managing complex programs
• 5 years+ within the IT Industry, preferably in Investment Banking IT
• Managed / worked with offshore based development teams
• Experience in matrix management & influencing others
• Experience in Credit Risk IT, Equities, Fixed Income
• Proven experience working in an Investment Bank

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.