Project Office Manager

Location: London, United Kingdom
Apply To: careers@wallstreetsystems.com

Wall Street Systems (Wallstreet) provides functionally rich, integrated and scalable solutions for improved workflow, control and overall productivity for corporate treasury, bank treasury, central banking, FX trading and global back office operations. Wallstreet is the market leader in FX trade processing and through its award-winning products, including Wallstreet Suite, Wallstreet Treasury, Wallstreet FX and Wallstreet BackOffice, the company processes millions of transactions, aggregating to trillions of dollars, every day.

With a 20 year heritage, Wallstreet has an outstanding reputation for quality and responsive service, and prides itself on helping its clients achieve long lasting benefits and results. Its 500 employees service over 300 banking, corporate and central bank clients, operating out of 12 offices worldwide. The company is a privately held corporation, and is majority owned by Warburg Pincus, a global private equity investor.

Job Description

Reporting to the London R&D Development Manager this is a key role in ensuring the department operates effectively, resources are efficiently utilised, project timescales are met, and department processes are standards are adhered to and continuously improved.

Key Responsibilities

• Deputise for the London R&D Development Manager, and in their absence manage the day-to-day running of the department, providing a point of escalation for interfacing departments.
• Schedule project tasks and plan team workloads in accordance with client and strategic priorities.
• Track project progress tasks, milestones, resources, and actions.
• Monitor project budget, risks, issues and changes and escalate where appropriate.
• Generate regular project status reports and departmental reports including monthly dashboards and detailed reports.
• Co-ordinate development of the product roadmap, maintain the release schedule and planned release functionality.
• Facilitate communication within the team, between management, developers, testers, and implementers and with outside departments such as Product Management and Professional Services.
• Manage FXBO DLC processes including process definition, documentation, communication and assurance.
• Define and maintain templates and standards for information used throughout the FXBO SDL.
• Assist with the continuously improvement of the R&D department’s SharePoint site.
• Assist with the managing the interfacing of enterprise CRM, scheduling, and time and expense systems and perform systems administration.
• Generate diagrams and presentations for Sales, Executive, User Group and Board Meetings.

Required Skills and Knowledge

• Proven experience of Project Management within Software Development.
• Have the ability to handle and manage multiple small project groups running concurrently, combined with BAU activities.
• Experienced in MS Office including Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint and SharePoint.
• Excellent interpersonal, organisation and negotiating skills with the ability to influence internal and external stakeholders
• Be adept at reporting and producing documents to a high standard.
• Ability to apply pragmatic thinking to problem solving in a project context.
• A 'can do' attitude, a keen willingness to learn, flexible, willing to help others, and develop as a pivotal member of the team.

Wall Street is an equal opportunity employer. At Wall Street Systems, we prohibit any type of discrimination based on race, color, religion, age, sex, or national origin and value diversity of all types.