About CLS:
CLS is the trusted party at the centre of the global FX ecosystem. Utilized by thousands of counterparties, CLS makes FX safer, smoother and more cost effective. Trillions of dollars’ worth of currency flows through our systems each day.
Created by the market for the market, our unrivalled global settlement infrastructure reduces systemic risk and provides standardization for participants in many of the world’s most actively traded currencies. We deliver huge efficiencies and savings for our clients: in fact, our approach to multilateral netting shrinks funding requirements by over 96% on average, so clients can put their capital and resources to better use.
CLS products are designed to enable clients to manage risk most effectively across the full FX lifecycle – whether through more efficient processing tools or market intelligence derived from the largest single source of FX executed data available to the market.
Our ambition to make a positive difference starts with our people. Our values – Protect, Improve, Grow – underpin everything that we do at CLS and define and shape a supportive and inclusive working environment in which everyone is encouraged to be open and forward-thinking
Job information:
- Functional title – Technology Project Planner
- Department – Technology Project Management
- Corporate level – Associate Vice President
- Report to – Vice President, Technology Project Management
- Location - London
What you will be doing:
The Project Planner will be a key role in supporting projects and improving the quality of plans within the Technology Project Management area. This role will report to the Senior Planner. Key responsibilities include:
- Creates and embeds plan governance in-line with program / project governance and reporting.
- Follows due processes and procedures to support the plan management and governance including change management and status reporting.
- Assures the quality and technical robustness of plans in line with the standard.
- Develop a set of plan reporting metrics to drive escalations and determine if go-live at risk.
- Leverages planning guidance from ePMO to support the definition of project plans and reporting.
- Contribute and own wider planning improvement initiatives.
What we’re looking for:
- 5+ years of project management/project planner experience.
- Significant experience as a planner for large change programs and/or complex projects across an end-to-end project lifecycle gained within a large organization.
- Extensive hands-on experience of maintaining and managing plans in a fast-moving organization (waterfall, iterative and agile).
- Experience of working in a PMO with a solid understanding of project management best practice and methodology.
- Experienced in creating well-structured and good quality project documentation with excellent skills in the use of the MS Office suite of tools, Microsoft SharePoint and MS Project.
- Experience of using Microsoft Project. PPM Pro or similar tools to produce and maintain high quality project plans.
- Strong personal work ethic.
- Motivated delivery focused individual.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Proven ability supporting the delivery of projects in a fast paced, complex, demanding environment.
- Owns and maintains the project plan for the project/program.
- Provides planning support to PM community including Planning tools (MSP and PPM Pro) skills development as required.
- Ensures plans are set up with appropriate logic to identify a clear Critical Path.
- Drives plan reporting including variance analysis; overdue and at-risk reporting; contingency management; critical path escalations; and plan metrics to support key stakeholders, look ahead dashboards.
- Facilitates the management of internal/external plan dependencies.
- Ensures the ‘high level delivery plan’ is maintained and reflects the plan status.
- Ensures risks / issues associated with overdue/at risk reporting milestones are defined and managed.
- Displays ownership of activities assigned to them and can drive ownership of plans and required improvements from key stakeholders.
- Capable of influencing project resources effectively through matrix management.
- Experienced at managing stakeholders ensuring strong communication and governance is in place.
Professional qualifications / certifications
- Educated to Graduate level.
- Desirable - Professional PM Accreditation (Prince 2, PMI, APM etc.).
Our commitment to employees:
We are a small company with a big mandate, so every person is essential to our success. We are also committed to employing and retaining the most talented and dedicated people.
What makes us interesting goes beyond our competitive salaries and great benefits. Our work environment is designed around quality outcomes, not output. The FX market would cease to function without our services, and we take pride in being responsible for keeping it running smoothly.
We are different from other financial institutions in that we have a flatter and more transparent structure with accessible leadership. You will be seen, heard and empowered to develop your career.
We are a purpose-driven organization, with an inclusive culture that focuses on doing what is right. The well-being of our people is as important to us as the resilience of our systems. In addition to encouraging our people to ‘locate for their day,’ we run a range of initiatives that support employees’ sense of belonging and physical, emotional and mental well-being.
Our extensive benefits for employees typically include:
- Vacation/annual leave: 25 days in UK/Asia + 3 life days, 23 in US + 3 life days
- Private medical and dental cover and life insurance
- Generous pension contributions in the UK and Asia; matching 401(k) in the US
- Paid volunteer days
- ‘Locate for your day’ hybrid working – 2 days a week in office.
- Access to Discover – our learning platform with 1000+ courses from LinkedIn Learning.
- Paid parental leave / Coaching and support services
- Career development / LinkedIn Learning
- ‘Heads down days’ with no meetings on the last Friday of every month
- Wellbeing / Mental health support
- Diversity Council / Affinity groups (Women’s Forum, Black Employee Network, Pride Network, Parents & Caregivers Network, Sustainability Network)
- Social events
Awards:
- The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2023 & 2024 / Big Company / The Sunday Times Awards
- Third place in Britain’s Healthiest Workplace 2022 / Medium Company / Vitality Awards
