Project Manager - Technology (US)

Project Manager - Technology

Verition Fund Management LLC (“Verition”) is a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund founded in 2008. Verition focuses on global investment strategies including Global Credit, Global Convertible, Volatility & Capital Structure Arbitrage, Event-Driven Investing, Equity Long/Short & Capital Markets Trading, and Global Quantitative Trading.

Seeking a motivated, data-oriented Project Manager with a desire to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. This role offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of business and technology, driving transformation within our technology department.  You will be focusing on requirements documentation, project delivery, and managing the software development lifecycle for post-trade support function.

Responsibilities:

• Elicitation of Business Requirements and translation into a functional requirements document. 
• Work across all teams to ensure a consistent and complete requirements definition. 
• Work closely with developers to ensure successful transformation of business requirements into technical design / solution.
• Engage stakeholders for participation in requirements, testing, review, and definition of done. 
• Identify resource requirements and gaps.
• Coordinate with development resources to document and ratify solution design. 
• Manage regular scrum meetings.
• Develop and maintain a project plan.
• Effectively communicate with all stakeholders both within and outside Information Technology. 
• Prepare and communicate status updates including Identification of risks to the project(s). 
• Familiarity with SDLC and scrum agile practices. 
• Support Technology, Business, and Project Management teams to a successful conclusion of projects by consulting across teams receiving input into operational delivery, planning and alignment.
• Coordinate users, meetings, and working sessions to enable requirements gathering and solution planning. 

Qualifications:

• 3-7+ years of experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Information Technology, or related field.
• Business Analysis and/or Project Management experience at a hedge fund.
• Comfortable with databases, cloud computing, and large data sets
• High level skill with Microsoft Office Suite required.
• Familiarity with Atlassian suite of Project Management tools (Confluence, Jira) or similar Project Management software. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication. 
• Ability to work directly with key stakeholders to gather and interpret requirements. 
• Strong organizational skills, detail oriented, and process-driven. 
• Experience coordinating projects across multiple teams / functions.
• Experience with software development methodologies.
• Proactive and self-directed in work habits.
• Experience with Information Security implementations is a plus.
• PMP Certified or other formal Project Management education is a plus.