Principal Project Manager

About Rimes

Rimes provides enterprise data management solutions to the global investment community. Driven by our passion for solving the most complex data problems, we provide our clients with investment intelligence that powers more than US$75 trillion in assets under management annually. The world’s leading institutional investors, asset managers and service providers rely on Rimes to help them make better investment decisions using accurate information and industry-leading technology.

The Opportunity:

Rimes Technologies remain the world’s first provider of managed data services and regtech solutions for over 60 of the top 100 asset managers, and 9 of the top 10 asset servicers.

Currently we are the happy medium of being a well-established company with a strong client base with the enthusiasm, feel and drive of a Start-up with strong financial backing and a new game changing product being launched.

Professional Services at Rimes is the catalyst for value delivery to Rimes clients through solutioning, change management and project delivery. We achieve this by:

• Accelerating client time to value and maximizing the benefits received from our solutions
• Supporting clients in their business transformation by providing product and project expertise.
• Building strong partnerships with clients to make them referenceable and willing to expand their relationship with Rimes.

Our Professional Services team consists of 80 members managing a portfolio of 50+ projects across EMEA, North America, and APAC. We are a fast-transforming organization seeking a strong leader to drive project delivery and project governance in EMEA.

The Project Management group within the Solution Delivery sub function of Professional Services are responsible for the management of Rimes Data Solution implementation projects & programs. To ensure they meet client requirements and are delivered on time, within scope and within budget. They manage the project delivery process, aligning and partnering closely with other key functions within Rimes and client organisations to understand dependencies and to drive projects to a successful completion.

The Principal Project Manager will serve as the leader of Client project implementations and will be accountable for delivering business results. This role supports the ongoing needs of the business while ensuring best practices are implemented throughout the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Project Governance & Leadership
  • Ensure strong project governance by establishing clear frameworks for project management, risk management, compliance, quality control, stakeholder accountability while enforcing best practices in financial data technology project execution.
  • Utilize appropriate project management frameworks and methodologies  to manage timelines, budgets, and resources effectively
• Project Planning & Execution:
  • Define project scope, objectives, and deliverables, ensuring alignment with business goals and contracted solution and services.
  • Responsible for defining and delivering the overall plan of the project through consultation and agreement across the different Rimes and client teams to scope, budget and time, in line with the contractual agreement.
• Stakeholder Collaboration
  • Work closely with Rimes teams (engineering, product, compliance) and external financial institutions and vendors, ensuring alignment on project success and clear accountability for project success.
• Scope Management
  • Ensure absolute clarity and successful transition from pre-sales teams to virtual project team with a clear understanding of the implementation project scope, timelines, budget, in/out scope and identification of any deviation from standard Rimes services
  • Accountable for the ongoing management of scope via the agreed change management process, by defining clear accountability, ensuring that all project changes are documented, assessed for impact, approved through the governance framework. Then effectively communicated to stakeholders to maintain alignment and project integrity. Impactful change to be updated as necessary within the cost, scope, plan and contractual documentation.
• Risk Management
  • Identify, assess, and mitigate risks to ensure seamless project execution.
  • Proactive communication of risks and issues to all stakeholders ensuring any necessary action/mitigation is taken to prevent the need for escalation 
• Dependency Management
  • Collaborate with all Rimes teams to ensure that all project dependencies are understood and delivered on time
  • Collaborate with client stakeholders to ensure that Rimes relevant client deliverables and dependencies are agreed upfront and managed on-going. Non delivery/non compliance to be impact assessed and where appropriate managed through the change management process.
  • Qualify and manage the customer change requests during the Implementation project and update documentation accordingly (including coordination with the Rimes Team whenever required)
• Project Team Leadership
  • Provide strong leadership by coaching and mentoring project team members, where needed, setting clear performance expectations and fostering a high-performance culture, ensuring accountability, continuous development and effective collaboration across all project phases
  • Proactively provides and receives unsolicited feedback up and downwards
  • Monitors output of less experienced members and escalates to senior team members and/or regional groups with the direction of manager
• Project Reporting, Project Status Reporting and documentation 
  • Provide regular project updates, status reports, and presentations to stakeholders and executive leadership
  • Responsible for Client / internal project status reporting
  • Take responsibility for the testing of the project deliverables and ensure that status is reported appropriately
  • Ensure that client’s sign-off is obtained where this is required
• Service Readiness
  • Partner with Service Readiness to ensure from the outset of the project transition commitments and requirements are clearly defined and documented within the project plan, resourced, and managed to completion
  • Co-ordinate the handover from Implementation to Client Managed Services and that where relevant, the client performs their relevant tasks
  • Sign off is in line with contractual commitments

 What we are looking for:

• 5+ years of project management experience in financial data technology, asset management , banking technology, or FinTech
• Proven Proficiency in Agile (Scrum/Kanban) and Waterfall methodologies
• Proven expertise in successfully delivering financial data solutions using project management techniques
• Knowledge of Financial Services industry, ideally in the asset management area.
• Experience of working for a company which provides services to external Clients or has experience in Service Delivery type organisations
• Excellent leadership, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and strong interpersonal skills
• Project Management certifications (PMP, PRINCE2, Certified Scrum Master) preferred
• Hands-on experience with JIRA, Confluence, Microsoft Project, or other PM tools.
• General characteristics:

• Experienced PM Leader who enjoys managing globally distributed teams, motivational and encouraging leader who leads by example
• High engagement and excels in a fast-paced transforming environment
• Driven, proactive, self-starter, with a can-do attitude, who is comfortable going outside their remit to get the job done
• Outcome and results driven, personally and for project delivery.
• Comfortable working in a small organisation – brings experience and expertise and is prepared to get into the detail to get things done
• Pragmatic approach to problem solving - who can influence / persuade and bring people with them on the change journey
• Collaborative, ability to bring people together and understand other people’s point of view
• Flexible with inquisitive nature, who wants to understand how things work. Passionate about personal and professional development
• Ability to work both independently and within a close knit team environment
• Structured, applies rigor and discipline to what they do
• Ability to engage with stakeholders effectively and surface the required information
• Team player with a proven client-orientation and external client delivery experience
• Works with minimal guidance on high complexity tasks/projects.
• Independently resolves a wide range of issues in creative ways, after consulting relevant stakeholders.
• Interacts efficiently with Rimes internal and external stakeholders and understands how other departments interacts with their own department.   
• Conducts knowledge sharing and training sessions with less experienced members of the team.
• Clients are mainly in EMEA but joining ad hoc meetings for different time zones may be needed. 

What We Offer:

• AXA Gym Membership Discount
• Healthshield Cashback plan
• Healthshield Perks platform (Breeze)
• MetLife Afterlife Support
• Metalife GP 24 hour virtual GP service
• Annual ‘purchase holiday’ scheme
• Chubbs Travel Insurance
• Group Income Protection scheme
• Death in Service Funds
• Referral bonus

Compensation: Competitive pay and bonus eligibility

Work Life Balance: Flexible hybrid work environment

Our Values:

• Client excellence
• Innovation
• Integrity
• Empowerment

*Any candidates who are not eligible to work in the country they applied, will not be considered*

Only selected candidates will be contacted for interviews. We appreciate your understanding. Thank you for considering a career with us.

Rimes is committed to promote the values of diversity and inclusion throughout the business. Whether it’s through recruitment, retention, career progression or training and development, we are committed to improving opportunities for people regardless of their background or circumstances.

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