Project Manager

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

Title: Project Manager

Location: Taiwan || Hybrid

Type: Full Time II Permanent

Job Description

Get To Know Us:

SS&C GIDS provides information processing and computer software services and products.  The Company’s operating segments include financial markets, customer management, professional services, and output solutions.  SS&C GIDS serves the alternative investments, asset and wealth management, banking and lending, insurance, and real estate industries.

Why You Will Love It Here! -

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model and Business Casual Dress Code
• Work/Life Balance: Flexible Personal/Vacation Time Off, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays
• Your Wellbeing: Social Insurance, Medical, Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Program, Annual Health Check Up
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C University
• Extra Perks: Bonus Scheme, SS&C Stock(s) Allocation for employees who are eligible

What You Will Get To Do:           

Reporting to the  Project Director, this  role will  be  responsible  for  successfully  delivering projects  across  the  entire  organisation. The role  will  be  in  charge  of  linking  the  various activities  involved  in  delivering  new  products  to  market  and  for delivering key elements  in support of SS&C Calastone’s commercial plan. The Project Manager will manage, report and where required remediate the various work streams associated with SS&C Calastone’s delivery, marketing and commercial teams.

The role holder will have responsibility for delivering and implementing SS&C Calastone’s products in our clients’ operations and play a key part of the end-to-end delivery of our solutions into a client UAT and production environment

• Own and manage end-to-end implementation projects, ensuring on-time delivery, meeting of budgetary demands, and maintenance of overall project ownership
• Design the conversion and migration strategy
• Manage and control system configuration of client UAT and production environments for both new and software upgrade implementations
• Work closely with SS&C Calastone customers to manage client UAT and implementation programs
• Facilitate end user training on SS&C Calastone software products
• Provide go-live and post implementation support
• Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential issues and devise contingency plans, using appropriate techniques (e.g. Risk logs, Change requests)
• Provide regularly scheduled updates to internal and external stakeholders and hold weekly project update meetings throughout the implementation lifecycle
• Manage expectations for internal and external stakeholders to ensure satisfaction throughout the implementation process.
• Serve as the first level of escalations for all Project-related risks and issues
• Assist in ensuring projects are appropriately scoped and approved.
• Implement defined projects as confirmed with the Head of Operations and ensure that deliverables are scalable and replicable.
• Work with internal teams to ensure that outputs are delivered on time, within budget and are fit for purpose.
• Set milestones and produce KPIs on project progress to facilitate reporting, management review and for exception reporting.
• Ensure that risks, issues and actions are appropriately documented, tracked and where appropriate escalated.
• Understand and delegate clearly defined work packages to assigned analysts and assist in any subsequent troubleshooting.

What You Will Bring:

The role holder will be expected to have project management experience within Financial Services - experience in the financial industry is essential. Experience in an Agile environment would be beneficial.

The role holder will display an outcome-oriented approach and demonstrate a proven record of delivery.

A grasp of data modelling techniques, message transformation and exposure to industry standard messaging protocols would be a significant positive. Knowledge of best practice industry methodologies would be advantageous.

Person Specification

• Ability to positively direct colleagues when resolving issues.
• Team player in multi-disciplined, technology, industry, regulatory and analytical-biased environment.
• Passionate about quality.
• Needs to be able to hold their corner and to be able to deal with a spirited work environment.
• Flexible attitude and entrepreneurial approach.
• Strong work ethic and willingness to work additional hours where required.

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.

Thank you for your interest in SS&C! If applicable, to further explore this opportunity, please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website @ www.ssctech.com/careers.

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.