Project Manager

Role Profile

Job Title

People Project Manager

Location

Gurugram, India

Reports to

Chief People Officer, APMEA

Role Description

As a People Project Manager you will be responsible for the end to end management of APMEA People projects to contracted time, quality, and budget requirements. This will involve matrixed leadership of a small, distributed project team in multiple locations, and the proactive identification, management and resolution of risks and issues throughout the full project lifecycle.

This role will focus organisational transformation and change including project management of the global footprint strategy and will work to implement the new operating model to deliver on our purpose to open up wealth for our customers.

In addition, this role will activate key initiatives related to the global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) strategy.

This is a People (HR) Function role and requires the ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders, excellent communication and influencing skills and strong organisation skills.

Organisational Design

The role operates within the APMEA People team, matrixed to the Program Management office.

Specific Role Responsibilities

Organisation Transformation

• Project Management of the APMEA organisational transformation and change aligned to the global footprint strategy.

• Deliver on all people aspects of the organisation transformation across APMEA including but not limited to, planning and implementation of the operating model aligned to budget requirements, risk mitigation, legislative and regulatory requirements.

• Leveraging and working with a cross functional team of resources to deliver on all aspects of the project.

• Working in emerging markets with the local People Function to establish processes across the employee lifecycle to ensure the successful onboarding of staff on scale.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

• Working in emerging markets with the local People Function to establish processes across the employee lifecycle to ensure the successful onboarding of staff on scale.

Project Management

• Manage the delivery of the project/s through the full project lifecycle, from initiation through to implementation.

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

• Be actively involved in the delivery of each project by coordinating the day to day running of the project to ensure it achieves its expected milestones.

• Have strong relationships and take accountability for working with all FNZ functions to agree scope and timelines in order to ensure delivery of the project in line with overall agreed plan.

• Maintain accurate project status and project financial reporting for the project team.

• Build mitigation plans for all risks and issues, and take ownership for ensuring these mitigation plans are executed, or escalated

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• Understand the commercial environment FNZ operates within and be able to identify any changes which might impact FNZ.

• Have strong relationships with 3rd party suppliers and ensure they are engaged appropriately and contracts are in place (via Gatekeeper – internal procurement system)and managed to ensure the required outcomes for FNZ.

• Manage all operational readiness activities associated to the project, as required, ensuring that the appropriate training and handovers take place ahead of go-live.

• Undertake post implementation reviews and ensure that lessons learned are captured and shared with the rest of the People community.

• Support/ lead on other projects as and when required.

Project Team Leadership

• Support/ lead on other projects as and when required.

·        Motivate, mentor and encourage project team members to utilise themselves to their full potential and take accountability for their assigned work.

• Support/ lead on other projects as and when required.

·        Swiftly resolve any conflicts within the project team and/or related stakeholders both within and out with FNZ.

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$2.2 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.