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A propos de Talan

For more than 20 years, Talan has been advising companies and administrations, supporting them and implementing their transformation projects in the UK and abroad. With a presence on four continents and a headcount of 6000 consultants, our ambition is to reach the billion turnover by the end of 2024.

In the UK, Talan count 250 employees on several site, the main being: London, Edinburgh and Chester, Leeds.

Talan UK is expanding its team we are looking for a Senior Project Manager

The Project Implementation practice at the heart of Global Markets hosts the Project Leads for vertical (Front-Office to accounting) or transversal (across several FO business lines or users groups or locations/entities) projects, especially for their implementation phase.

Project Leads are involved in the study and/or implementation of the projects allocated to the Project Implementation which encompasses to:

• frame the project upfront, define the most adequate governance to lead the project to success and get signoff,
• when relevant, consolidate the design the solution that the project is to deliver, with proper sign-off from clients & IT architecture & relevant contributors,
• build/consolidate and maintain the project plan, effectively manage unplanned events, manage dependencies and critical path
• drive the project team to completion in close interaction with the Project Sponsor, ensure effective communication, continuous alignment of all contributors and timely running of governance routines,
• take responsibility for – when appropriate – some of the actions and analysis related to the project, without losing focus on the roadmap,
• secure the staffing of the project team, with the support of line managers and/or relevant governance body in charge of allocating resources,
• perform project retrospective to leverage on experience and learn lessons for improvement for the future.

Key Responsibilities:

Preliminary step: project framing

• Clarify the objective, the scope, the dependencies, the major risks & issues.
• Confirm the sponsorship.
• Ensure a clear business rationale is associated to the contemplated project (incl. high level ROI), identify benefits.
• Size roughly the effort required to design the solution & execute the projects.
• Identify contributors to be on-boarded for the study.

Study / Design phase:

• Clearly state the business requirements, cost and time-frame of the project.
• Coordinate & challenge experts to put together a solution meeting the business requirements.
• Identify risk and dependencies that could jeopardize project execution.
• Establish the full financial of the project (cost, associated revenues or savings).
• Design the project governance (roles & responsibilities, governance bodies, stakeholders identification).
• Design project roadmap (i.e. the overall execution plan).

Execution phase:

• Drive the execution of the roadmap.
• Ensure aligned project status/progress is shared amongst the project community.
• Identify risk & issues and propose a mitigation action plan.
• Raise alerts / escalate issues / review the roadmap if required.
• Monitor the budget consumption.
• Monitor the feedback from contributors on project management and adjust when required.

Completion phase:

• Collect feedback from project participants.
• Identify good practices/factors of success and fields of improvement.
• Update project management toolkit with lessons learnt.

The Project Lead is also accountable to ensure that solutions designed for the project fit with the principles and are validated by the relevant validation bodies:

• Overall sound IT architecture.
• Operational TOM with clear mandate for each team.
• Strong controls framework.
• Simple and efficient working.
• Future evolution of the regulatory framework or anticipated business transformation

• In-depth knowledge of Front Office to Finance processing chains logics.
• Good technical understanding of capital markets products.
• Strong experience in a project leader role (senior PM level).• Strong experience in delivering regulatory projects in Capital Markets environment
• Strong track record in successful interactions with peers in a non-hierarchical framework.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Strong communication and reporting skills.
• Capacity to interact with very senior employees of the organization.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Strong problem-solving and negotiation skills.
• Proven coaching capabilities.

Competencies

• Organized and delivery-focused, with attention to detail.
• Comfortable operating with a strong level of autonomy, self-driven.
• Proactive, proposing or taking own initiative to prevent risks / issues.
• Ability to work well under pressure and to take the initiative.
• Solid work ethic and high level of motivation.