Rates Change Project Manager United Kingdom
Job description
As a Barclays Rates Change Project Manager this is an exciting opportunity you will deliver on our Group strategy and satisfy all our stakeholders, we must deliver our initiatives consistently and transparently. Project Managers apply the right processes, tools, methods, and skills to manage the delivery of a project from business case through to closure, ensuring consistent focus on front to back business outcomes and target value proposition.
Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.
Working Flexibly
We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognizes and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a career, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life. If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs.
We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We’re flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month, or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally can request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.
What will you be doing?
- Managing & supporting the Structured Products MGI project delivery that will ensure on-time, effective delivery of front to back (F2B) outcomes in line with the programme business case
- Creating, managing, and owing of detailed reporting on the Structured Rates Book of Work
- Determining, monitoring, and managing the project workforce and financial requirements, liaising with product and service delivery on resource requirements
- Ensuring that planned outputs deliver the agreed outcomes and that the outcomes remain relevant
- Providing and regularly reviewing an honest, transparent assessment of the project status and RAID the initiative
- Maintaining focus on managing delivery risks proactively to improve the likelihood, frequency and scale of successful outcomes
- Acting in partnership with the Accountable Executive (AE), Trading, sales and Business Managers, using their experience and insight to help engage senior leaders
- Creating an environment of effective delivery by empowering the delivery team, leveraging their knowledge and expertise, learning lessons from past delivery
What we’re looking for
- Understanding in Project management and Change Delivery experience
- Ability to master and navigate new subject domains quickly
- Excellent Stakeholder Management skills
- Exceptional analytical skills
Skills that will help you in the role:
- Macro business experience gained in a previous change, business management or middle office role
- Rates product experience across Cash and Derivatives (Bonds, IR Swaps, Options, Structured Rates, Options)
- Understanding Product and/or Business Analysis experience
- Excellent Communication Skills – both verbal and written (emails/presentations)
Where will you be working?
In the heart of Canary Wharf, our headquarters at Churchill Place boasts onsite amenities such as; a gym, staff restaurant and deli bar, and is easily accessible by tube and bus links. With a population of around 5000 staff the atmosphere is second to none with a real buzz being created around the offices within.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: From £55,000.00 per year
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Supplemental pay types:
- Performance bonus
- Yearly bonus
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Canary Wharf: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Application question(s):
- Do you have Rates product experience across Cash and Derivatives?
Experience:
- Project Management and Change Delivery: 3 years (preferred)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Canary Wharf
