Location: Edinburgh
Working Pattern: Hybrid (3-days in the office)
Role Description
This Junior Project Manager role provides an opportunity to join FNZ and develop towards a Project Manager position over time through structured professional development and practical project experience. With support from experienced Project Managers and Delivery Specialists, the scope and responsibility of the role will increase progressively, aligned to the requirements of the Project Manager role.
As a Project Manager, you will be accountable for the end‑to‑end delivery of projects in line with contracted time, quality and budget commitments. This includes leading distributed project teams across multiple locations and proactively identifying, managing and resolving risks and issues throughout the full project lifecycle. Delivery may involve a single large‑scale initiative or multiple smaller projects.
This is a client‑facing role requiring the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with customers, including senior stakeholders.
Specific Role Responsibilities
Delivery Management
Learn to manage the delivery of the project through the full project lifecycle, from initiation through to implementation.
Understand the FNZ Software Delivery Lifecycle (SDLC) and associated quality gates, ensure these are actively followed and managed on each project.
Develop the ability to create and maintain an end to end project plan that delivers the agreed scope of the project to time, budget and quality criteria.
Help to coordinate the day to day running of the project to ensure it achieves its expected milestones.
Build effective relationships and take accountability for working with all FNZ Directorates/areas to agree scope, timelines and artefacts in order to ensure delivery of the project in line with overall agreed plan.
Understand the overall estimating process for a project, and work collaboratively with the Lead Solution Consultant, Delivery Manager, and the Test Manager to estimate the work effort required to deliver the project scope within the agreed timescales and budgets.
Learn to provide timely, precise, accurate and comprehensive project MI both internally and externally to FNZ customers.
Develop your knowledge of the FNZ products and technology so you are able to identify and manage risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies through the full project lifecycle.
Learn to build mitigation plans for all risks and issues, and take ownership for ensuring these mitigation plans are executed, or escalated as is appropriate.
Understand the commercial environment FNZ operates within and be able to identify any changes which might impact FNZ commercially in advance to the Account Director.
Build relationships with 3rd party suppliers and ensure they are engaged appropriately and contracts are in place 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.
Learn to undertake post implementation reviews and ensure that lessons learned are captured and shared with the rest of the PM community.
Team Leadership
Be able to lead, manage and motivate a virtual team in multiple geographic locations, communicating project progress, and ensuring all team members take accountability for delivery.
Develop a culture of continuous improvement on the project, support process improvement initiatives, and identify new process improvements.
Be an active member of the PM community within FNZ, contributing to team sessions, supporting other Junior PMs and sharing best practice and lessons learned.
Develop a knowledge of the regulatory environment in which FNZ operates, understand the impact of all regulatory changes and ensure future change is built into project plans so FNZ clients have a compliant platform.
Experience required
Required Knowledge and Skills
Degree educated.
Experience in finance, technology or project delivery environments is advantageous.
Confident, proactive and comfortable operating in a client‑focused delivery setting.
Self‑directing working style with a clear focus on outcomes.
Commercially aware with strong organisational and time‑management capability.
Clear, confident communicator, effective with both internal stakeholders and external clients.
Please note that the closing date for applications is Wednesday 6th. Early applications are encouraged, as the process may close earlier if sufficient interest is received.
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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.
