Migration Project Manager

Role Description

The Migration Project Manager is responsible for the day to day management of a portfolio of migration projects to contracted time, quality, and budget requirements.

This role will support the Global Head of Migrations in the delivery of technical migration projects, managing a distributed team of migration SME’s in multiple locations. The role requires strong stakeholder management, planning skills, ability to make solution based recommendations based on proactive identification, management and resolution of risks and issues throughout the full project lifecycle.

This is a client facing role and requires the ability to build strong relationships with customers at a senior level.

Specific Role Responsibilities

Delivery Management

• Delivery of the migration projects through the full project lifecycle, from initiation through to implementation.

• Represent the migration delivery at a senior level both internally and externally

• Stakeholder management, ensuring that all relevant interested parties have the appropriate level of communications

• Develop and maintain an end to end portfolio plan that delivers the agreed scope of the project to time, budget and quality criteria.

• Manage the resource pool, ensuring correct priorities and alignment in line with the FNZ Strategic priorities

• Provide timely, precise, accurate and comprehensive project MI and reporting

• Identify and manage risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies through the full project lifecycle. Ensure mitigation plans are in place for all risks and issues, making fact based recommendations to the Global Head of Migrations to facilitate the correct mitigation plans.

• Support migration operational readiness planning, communicating with the appropriate stakeholders to facilitate dependency management and planning.

• Facilitate post implementation review and take responsibility for ensuring that lessons learned are captured and shared with the global migration team.

Team Leadership

• Lead, manage and motivate a virtual team in multiple geographic locations, communicating project progress, and ensuring all team members take accountability for delivery.

• Ensure a culture of continuous improvement on the project, support process improvement initiatives, and identify new process improvements.

• Is an active member of the PM community, contributing to team sessions and central improvement initiatives, and sharing best practice and lessons learned.

• This role is in scope for activities which have an indirect regulatory impact on processing which takes place within FNZ for FNZ and/or FNZ’s clients. This role has a requirement to remain up to date with regulatory developments and changes as communicated with FNZ.

Experience required

• Degree qualified or equivalent experience

• Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail

• Self-starter, able to work independently.

• Strong leadership skills.

• Good communication skills and capable of working with customers and internal staff.

• Experience of managing stakeholders to executive levels.

• PMP, PRINCE 2 or equivalent qualification preferred.

• Expert in Microsoft Project

• Previous experience in large scale data or asset migration projects and data modelling preferred.

About FNZ

FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone, everywhere can invest in their future on their terms. We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry, but complexity holds firms back. 

We created wealth’s growth platform to help. We provide a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. All in a regulated financial institution. 

We partner with the world’s leading financial institutions, with over US$2.4 trillion in assets on platform (AoP).
Together with our clients, we empower nearly 30 million people across all wealth segments to invest in their future.