Project Manager - Product Control m/f/d

Project Manager – Product Control

London- (x3 Days in Office)

£600-£700

emagine is a high-end professional services consultancy and solutions firm Specialising in providing business and technology services to the financial services sector, we power progress, solve challenges and deliver real results through tailored high-end consulting services and solutions.

We have created a culture of openness and integrity by building genuine and strong relationships and partnerships, enabling us to be uncompromising in our dedication in delivering the optimal service for our clients. Our commitment is not just towards our clients but we aim to foster a positive and equitable working environment with our consultants and colleagues which stems from our core values: Confident, Dedicated, Responsible, Genuine.

We are currently looking for dynamic individual to join our Business Change Practice as Project Manager; allocated to a multi-disciplinary squad delivering a range of change projects.

The Project Manager will be responsible for the delivery of individual projects and/or workstreams of larger programmes aimed at maintaining, enhancing and transforming the product control teams across Front, Middle and Back Office.

The role:

• Profit and Loss reporting: Providing Management and the Business Units with key financial information via the P&L reporting and analysis process in a timely and accurate manner.

• Ensuring all P&L is fully explained via attribution to risk parameter movements and deal activity as well as market-linked commentaries

• Providing Management and the Business Units with independent validation of market data, model inputs and official valuations vs 3rd party sources to ensure all positions are accurately valued.

• Facilitating the implementation of improved valuation models and data structures where necessary

• Provisions and Adjustments: Ensuring the accuracy and sufficiency of reserves and valuation adjustments to support new and existing products and businesses in line with the firm's overall strategy

• Management Information: Providing ultimate quality assurance and sign-off of key P&L-related data and analysis to enhance and expedite performance measurement, resource allocation and decision making

• Projects: provide key input into the design, specification and implementation of systems and controls to enhance underlying departmental processes

Key Skills and Experience:

To succeed in this role you will need:

• Identification, escalation and resolution of issues regarding Product Control and related activities;

• Maintaining and enhancing good working relationships with stakeholders, including business and control / infrastructure teams, auditors, regulators, local management and staff of the Product Control and Finance function globally;

• Leading projects and system enhancements as required, ensuring effective control and continuous process improvement;

• Documentation of control activities and methodologies undertaken in respect of the above responsibilities to a standard sufficient to ensure hand over of tasks and auditability of results and including the management of operational risks;

• Conducting analysis in support of the Product Control and Finance functions, whether through additional ad hoc tasks or presentation of written materials.

• Product knowledge including but not limited to equities, bonds, interest rate, FX and credit derivatives

• Experience with matrix reporting and working with teams in global locations

• Strong analytical, project management and interpersonal skills

Our people

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle, from strategy to implementation. This will provide you with a broad base of experience from which to build an outstanding career.

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle.

We pride ourselves on;

• Providing our people with a supportive culture, rooted in our values and driven by our purpose.

• Promoting a culture of inclusion, collaboration, well-being, and learning and development.

• Providing increased agility and flexibility within our hybrid working model

• Investing in employees’ growth through ongoing training and development

• Autonomy to take ownership of projects, making decisions and demonstrating individual expertise

• Providing an transparent performance and career management experience.

Our consultants are integral to delivering successful consulting engagements, addressing our clients’ most pressing business challenges, and build lasting value in disciplines such as:

• Solve sophisticated, ambiguous business, change and technology problems, bringing structure and meticulous analysis and planning, acting, and taking decisions with little strategic direction

• Build, develop and sustain trusted senior client relationships in the C-suite by remaining highly attuned to client needs

• Drive, enable and support the business, partnering with our leaders, clients, and consultants across our practices to take the best of emagine to our clients through opportunity identification/qualification, solution development/presentation
  

  Interested?

At emagine, we are committed to building an international and diverse team by embracing our different backgrounds.

If you are up to the challenge and would like to find out more, get in touch with us immediately, our internal recruitment team is always keen to hear from dynamic individuals that are looking to further their career and explore their full potential.