Project Manager – Custody Operations

Sydney

Asset Management

Permanent

This is an excellent Project Manager role working within the Operations team of a leading global custodian. The Project Management team is responsible for managing the significant change agenda impacting the custody world, including market driven change, regulatory change, client change requests, internal platform upgrades/migrations and internal process/control enhancements. 

The team works closely with onshore and offshore operational teams, account management teams, client service management teams, Product and local/global IT teams as well as clients, market participants and regulatory bodies (eg ASX, AusPayNet, AUSTRAC, ACSA etc).

The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate accountability, attention to detail and strong problem solving capability. They must comfortable managing priorities to ensure to ensure successful delivery and handover to BAU.

The ideal applicant will be a seasoned Project Manager  with a strong Custody Operations background, capable of managaing multiple projects at once and have a background in custody operations, payments, cash operations.

Responsibilities 

• Oversee full project life cycles from initiation to deployment 
• Develop project scope and objectives, engaging all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation (eg PIDs, BRDs, RAID logs, project plans etc)
• Review relevant documentation from global projects to identify local impacts
• Act as the single point of contact (SPOC) for project coordination across internal and external stakeholders
• Identification of risks and issues as well as appropriate mitigation plans, including timely escalation to management
• Organise and support UAT, including engaging local/global IT teams as required
• Drive internal project governance meetings and supporting documentation, ensuring comprehensive yet concise updates to management and stakeholders
• Work collaboratively with onshore and offshore SMEs to identify and implement process enhancements
• Ensure changes and improvements are seamlessly integrated into BAU
• Establish and maintain relationships with key internal stakeholders 

Technical Skills, Experience, and Qualifications Required:

• 5 years+ experience within the custody industry, including solid knowledge of operations within domestic and global custody and related operational risk and compliance requirements
• Practical project management experience and an ability to demonstrate strong communication, governance and stakeholder management
• Awareness of the local regulatory environment
• Strong working knowledge of JIRA, Confluence and all Microsoft Office tools, preferably including Project and Visio
• Desired knowledge, skill, experience
• Technical knowledge of custody cash payments, including SWIFT message types and ISO20022, HCVS
• PRINCE II or Agile professional qualifications highly desirable