Senior Project Manager, Capital Markets

Job Description

The world of finance moves fast. At FIS, we’re faster. Our teams are empowered to learn, grow, and make an impact–in their careers and communities. We deliver innovation that advances the way the world pays, banks and invests. If you want to grow personally and professionally, we’d like to know: Are you FIS?

About the team:

We're a team of around 200 Project Managers who support the Professional Services team within our Capital Markets organization. Our Professional Services team brings technical expertise and industry knowledge to our clients through consulting services, integration, and managed services that accelerate business growth. We are committed to consistently improving the way we do things and challenging the status quo. We're looking for passionate Project Managers to join our team and be committed to our mission of Project Delivery Excellence!

About the role:

As a Senior Project Manager, you’ll use best-in-breed PM tools and processes to help us deliver products that are changing the world of fintech. You’ll manage high-profile and complex projects, facing off to our external clients and internal stakeholders. You'll help onboard clients to Trading and Asset software products while focusing on project governance and metric-tracking.

What you will be doing:

• Coach and mentor junior project management and support staff.

• Accountable for all aspects of end-to-end project delivery.

• Managing project initiation activities including identifying contractual obligations, client needs and goals, existing situation, and necessary contacts.

• Translating business scope and objectives into an overall project plan.

• Executing project plans, project scope, activities, schedules, budgets and deliverables.

• Working with product development, sales, client relationship teams, technology solutions, service delivery and/or other cross-functional teams.

• Coordinating activities and tasks among project team members, other internal departments and client organizations to meet project goals and ensure project completion is on schedule, within budget constraints and of the appropriate quality standards for the project scope.

• Managing project budgets, implementing financial management processes needed.

• Developing mitigation strategies for risks and issues, translate into concrete steps and assign responsibilities to various team members and/or other project managers. 

• Advising clients on the best course of action while considering cost, effort, risk and potential outcomes.

• Planning and coordinating all commercial and monetary aspects of the project lifecycle including, but not limited to, budgeting through analysis of project costs and monitoring & controlling budget and expenses

What you bring:

• 10+ years of project management experience in delivering financial software implementations, leading 200+ days projects successfully.

• Commercial project management experience including budgeting through analysis of project costs.

• Experience in a Professional Services or Consulting Practice required.

• Experience managing software implementations, specifically in the FinTech or Capital Markets domain.

• A Bachelor’s degree in computer science, management information systems, business administration or similar.

• A CAPM, PMP, Prince or similar Project Manager certification.

• Proficiency in industry-standard process methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall) is required.

• Advanced experience with Planview, Microsoft Office Products (Word, Excel, MS Project, PowerPoint).

• Extensive knowledge of project management standards, processes, procedures and guidelines as well as various IT project methodologies and life cycles.

What you'll be doing:

A career at FIS is more than just a job. It’s the change to shape the future of fintech. At FIS, we offer you:

• A voice in the future of fintech

• Always-on learning and development

• Collaborative work environment

• Opportunities to give back

• Competitive salary and benefits

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EEOC Statement

FIS is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here supplement document available here

For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will be required to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

Sourcing Model

Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.

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