Project Manager

The Apex Group was established in Bermuda in 2003 and is now one of the world’s largest fund administration and middle office solutions providers.

Our business is unique in its ability to reach globally, service locally and provide cross-jurisdictional services. With our clients at the heart of everything we do, our hard-working team has successfully delivered on an unprecedented growth and transformation journey, and we are now represented by over circa 13,000 employees across 112 offices worldwide.Your career with us should reflect your energy and passion.

That’s why, at Apex Group, we will do more than simply ‘empower’ you. We will work to supercharge your unique skills and experience.

Take the lead and we’ll give you the support you need to be at the top of your game. And we offer you the freedom to be a positive disrupter and turn big ideas into bold, industry-changing realities.

For our business, for clients, and for you

APEX FUND SERVICES

Functional Title: Practice Manager (PM)

Department: Change Management

Employment Type: Permanent

About Apex

Apex Group Ltd., established in Bermuda in 2003, is a global financial services provider. With 50 offices worldwide and 12,000 employees upon the close of announced acquisitions, Apex delivers an extensive range of services to asset managers, capital markets, private clients and family offices. The Group has continually improved and evolved its capabilities to offer a single-source solution through establishing the broadest range of services in the industry including fund services, digital onboarding and bank accounts, depositary, custody and super ManCo services, business services including HR and Payroll and a pioneering ESG Ratings and Advisory service for private companies.

We look to recruit bright, articulate, and numerate employees who are not afraid of a challenge. You are prepared to work hard, love what they do and be prepared to innovate.

Every employee plays a part in making Apex who we are today and the more that we grow, the more important that becomes. Whatever your career path or specialism Apex provides a global platform to allow you to thrive.

About the Hiring Team:

We are looking for a Practice Manager to join our team, reporting to the Head of Practice. The role will focus on supporting our relevant practice (Project Management) delivery across technology & business change. The Practice Manager be part of the program team defining, reviewing and approving the delivery, using appropriate delivery methodology and lean delivery principles whilst ensuring timely achievement of outputs and value realisation. You will be responsible for the delivery of the defined (projects)Epics & changes for the clients, provide effective management to the teams and give guidance to key business users. You will be responsible for ensuring the practice methodology aligns with the Apex global project management frameworks (agile & waterfall) and that requirements have been delivered through the cycle with the correct level of rigour & quality.

The practice team is currently located across UK - London, Ireland – Dublin, Bulgaria - Sofia, South Africa – Cape Town and the India offices - Pune, Mumbai and Bangalore. Apex currently has a 5-day Office working policy.

Key duties and responsibilities

• Hire, Manage, Coach and Mentor a team of Agile Project Manager, Project Managers and Programme Managers, to ensure the team stays motivated and well managed.
• Act as a Deputy Management Representative for the Head of Practice in their absence.
• Active member of the Agile (Practice management team) , ensuring adherence to the defined practice principles within Apex and upholding high standards for quality
• Drive quality within the practice, ensuring the team strive for excellence and implement process improvement
• Write project related Approach, where required, for large scale projects or programmes that deviate from the Function Strategy.
• Be accountable for the management, planning, design and execution of all discipline activities, within your workstream
• Own the performance of practice resource, within your workstream, supporting the Portfolio Leads to ensure project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale and resource budgets.
• Monitor practice activities and identify patterns and trends, providing insights and recommendations to improve software quality.
• Progress and status reporting on a regular basis on overall project deliveries.
• Managing and mitigating any resource related project escalations, risks and issues.
• Actively participate in lessons learned sessions to help improve project management processes.

Experience and skills:

• 4+ years of Discipline Management/Team Lead experience.
• 8+ years of Discipline experience.
• Proven track record of leading teams, and experience in implementing a range of disciplines in a Waterfall and/or agile environment.
• Good all-round IT Practice background from preferably a number of industries / domains.
• Excellent knowledge (ideally hands-on) of discipline tooling
• Experience in developing metrics to access performance of the team.
• Experience coaching mentoring and hiring industry professionals.
• Experience in running workshop exercises with globally dispersed teams.
• Discipline Certification
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and coordinate with globally dispersed technical and non-technical teams.
• Very strong organisational and stakeholder management skills with ability to negotiate at all levels.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills and ability to build strong working relationships at senior management level.
• Ability to act on own initiative with a can-do attitude.
• Ability to work in a quickly changing environment, being very flexible as tasks and responsibilities may change.
• Drives continuous process improvement.
• Fluent in English speaking and written skills.

Nice to have:

• Experience in IT in a Financial Services organization.
• Experience in Funds Industry
• Understanding of W365/Azure infrastructure, including Application Layering.
• Experience of using Azure Devops project management tool

Additional information:

We are an equal opportunity employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, gender identity, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, socio-economic, responsibilities for dependants, physical or mental disability. Any hiring decision are made based on skills, qualifications and experiences.

We measure our success as a business, not only by delivering great products and services and continually increasing our assets under administration and market share, but also by how we positively impact people, society and the planet.

For more information on our commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) please visit https://theapexgroup.com/csr-policy/

If you are looking to take that next step in your career and are ready to work for a high performing organisation, alongside talented people who take pride in delivering great results, please submit your application (with your CV and cover letter) to our dedicated email address.

Disclaimer: Unsolicited CVs sent to Apex (Talent Acquisition Team or Hiring Managers) by recruitment agencies will not be accepted for this position. Apex operates a direct sourcing model and where agency assistance is required, the Talent Acquisition team will engage directly with our exclusive recruitment partners.