Senior Project Manager

Ipswich, England, United Kingdom

8/11/2025

Role Description

As a Senior Project Manager, you will be responsible for the end-to-end management of projects to contracted time, quality, and budget requirements. This will involve proactive identification, management and resolution of risks and issues throughout the full project lifecycle.

The role requires a background in technology or management consulting with experience in leading large projects within the financial services industry.

As a Senior Project Manager at FNZ you may be involved in the delivery of a single large-scale project or multiple smaller projects. This is a client facing role and requires the ability to build strong relationships with customers, often at a senior level.

The role operates within a team that largely supports the Curtis Banks portfolio and process changes with a reporting line to the Head of Projects.

Specific Role Responsibilities

• Manage the delivery of the project through the full project lifecycle, from initiation through to implementation.
• Ensure the project delivers in-line with the FNZ Software Delivery Lifecycle (SDLC) and associated quality controls are met. Tracking that these are actively followed and managed on each project.
• Create and maintain an end to end project plan that delivers the agreed scope of the project to time, budget and quality criteria.
• Ensure the FNZ Solution Centre understands all build scope through approved designs and specifications in accordance with the SDLC, collaborate with them to create a build and test plan that delivers against project milestones.
• 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 Directorates/areas to agree scope, timelines and artefacts in order to ensure delivery of the project in line with overall agreed plan.
• Take accountability for the overall estimating process for a project, and work collaboratively with key stakeholders to estimate the work effort required to deliver the project scope within the agreed timescales and budgets.
• Maintain accurate project status and project financial reporting for the entire project team.
• Provide timely, precise, accurate and comprehensive project MI both internally and externally to FNZ customers.
• Understand the FNZ products and technology alongside the legacy Curtis Banks systems so you can identify and manage risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies through the full project lifecycle.
• 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 Head of Projects.
• Have strong 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.
• Undertake post implementation reviews and ensure that lessons learned are captured and shared with the rest of the PM community.
• Motivate, mentor and encourage project team members to utilise themselves to their full potential and take accountability for their assigned work.
• Create a culture of continuous improvement on the project, support process improvement initiatives, and identify new process improvements.
• Swiftly resolve any conflicts within the project team and/or related stakeholders both within and out with FNZ.
• Knowledge of the regulatory environment in which FNZ operates, be responsible for managing 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 Industry Knowledge

• Financial Services experience preferably investment/wealth/life and/or pensions products and the markets in which FNZ, and our customers operate in.
• An understanding of the regulatory environment FNZ operate within.
• Experience in managing 3rd party suppliers
• Experience in leading the delivery of business-critical projects, preferably Software implementations within Financial Services.
• Experience of managing stakeholders to an executive level
  
  

Required Knowledge And Skills

• Proven significant experience as a Project manager in a commercial or public sector environment.
• Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
• Independent, self-directing and delivery focused working style.
• Excellent organisational, administration and time management skills.
• Good team communication skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills.
• Highly developed written and oral communication skills.
  
  

Opportunities

• Right from day one, you will work alongside exceptional, multicultural teams - experts in their respective fields - who will inspire and challenge you to make your greatest impact.
• Be part of a highly successful, rapidly growing, global business that is leading the delivery of financial services via cloud computing and partners with some of the world’s largest companies.
• Working in a flexible and agile way that meets the needs of the business and personal circumstances.
• Remuneration, significant financial rewards and career advancement is based on individual contribution and business impact rather than tenure or seniority.
  
  

Commitment to Equal Opportunities

At FNZ, we recognise that diversity, equity and inclusion are important factors contributing to our success. We embrace the unique perspective and capabilities of our current and future employees, which will help us continue to drive innovation and achieve our business goals. Recruitment decisions at FNZ are made in a non-discriminatory manner without regard to gender, ethnicity/race, faith, age, nationality, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, socio-economic background, disability or military veteran status where all applicants and employees are valued and respected.

In addition, we want to ensure accessibility needs are well supported, if you require specific support please advise us.

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 over 650 financial institutions and 12,000 wealth managers, with US$1.7 trillion in assets under administration (AUA).

Together with our customers, we help over 26 million people from all wealth segments to invest in their future.