Nucleus Financial

We are looking for a Project Manager to join our fast-paced Transformation team within our Readiness function, to manage third party integration activity. This will be a hands-on role including; planning across multiple deliverables, governance, co-ordination, and effectively working with our strategic platform provider

Transformation is a large scale and complex programme of work, and already in flight and you’ll need to be able to ‘hit the ground running’. This is an exciting and varied role and a great opportunity to play a part in the transformation of the Nucleus platform as we move towards becoming ‘best loved’ in the marketplace.

Key Accountabilities

• Managing and delivering complex scope within the Transformation programme across the full development lifecycle.
• Managing and influencing stakeholders across the business at all levels
• Identify the skills and resources needed for project delivery
• Managing third parties to deliver to their commitments for our business
• Be fully compliant with project governance, reporting and tracking
• Define the scope appropriately, employing techniques for scope traceability
• Reviewing and monitoring progress against project plans to ensure outputs are delivered to time, budget and quality specifications
• Within the project, engage with assurance reviews and the implementation of review recommendations
• Managing risks, issues and resources to ensure milestone dates are achieved
• Managing project scope, applying the defined change management processes when required
• Reporting project progress in line with stated policies and procedures within the organisation, including ensuring that any requests for information are answered in a timely manner
• Establishing teams, in consultation with other parts of the organisation, to ensure efficient delivery and responsibility for the efficient running of these teams by setting project objectives and working within a matrix management environment.
• Communicating regularly with stakeholders and sponsors.
• Setting and managing stakeholder expectations on timelines and ownership of outputs at various phases
• Coordinating activities and tasks among program teams, other internal departments and client or vendor/subcontractor organizations as needed to meet program goals

A bit about you

Your friends might describe you as the ‘purposeful one’. You love taking responsibility and using your leadership skills to drive accurate, timely and positive project results.

You’ll enjoy working within a fast-paced environment that gives you the opportunity to flex your time management responsibilities and your skill for staying calm under pressure. Creative and motivated, you’ll take great pride in your ability to act on your own initiative and remain flexible in the face of changing circumstances and priorities.

You’ll thrive when working as part of a diverse and supportive team, collaborating with your colleagues to share ideas and knowledge, and displaying your knack for relationship building both with your peers and stakeholders.

We’ve always placed more importance on cultural contribution above technical ability, but we’d really like you to have:

• Proven delivery within large scale Change/Transformation programmes
• Experience of wealth management and pensions industry
• Understanding of Information Technology systems within a Financial Services platform environment.
• Experience of working with outsourced partners and providers.
• Project planning experience across complex deliveries
• Ability to work well under pressure and manage solutions during difficult situations
• Experience of Change Delivery within the Financial Services industry

Desirable

• Previous experience of people and operational change.
• Experience of successfully managing complex solutions, teams and activities
• Good IT skills including all elements of Microsoft Office
• Excellent influencing & negotiation skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A flexible approach and the ability to influence and motivate others

A little about us

We are the Nucleus Group Services Limited and we help make retirement more rewarding. Here at Nucleus, people come first - whether it’s our colleagues, or the advisers and customers we support, we know that working in partnership and collaboration leads to the best outcomes. Together, we’ve shaped the platform to how it is today. We work hard, and we celebrate hard too.

Our ambition is to create a platform with a difference, putting the customer centre stage meant tearing up the rule book and starting from scratch. We’ve come a long way since then, but our mission remains just as focused. That’s why our culture, values, and social responsibility are things we keep at the top of our agenda – because we know they matter and have a big impact.

Our culture is one of the many things that sets us apart from the pack. We want to have an environment where our people feel that they can make a real difference, know they’ll be rewarded for their efforts and more importantly, enjoy themselves at work.

Are we a perfect match? Check out this video and find out!

Inclusion and diversity at Nucleus

As with most things in life, who cares, wins. We really care about inclusion.

For us it’s not a tick box exercise; inclusion and diversity are embedded in our culture and everything we do. It’s a commercial imperative. It isn’t about being PC. It’s about being future-relevant and durable. We owe it to ourselves and the industry to ensure we are playing our part in creating a fair, balanced and transparent financial services sector.

More diversity means broader experience, a wider set of perspectives and a better collective ability to problem-solve. And it means being more representative of customer groups, which supports areas such as product development.

At Nucleus, we offer a generous blend of benefits for the things that really matter to our people, including a non-contributory pension, bonus, enhanced parental leave, paid time off for emergencies, health and wellbeing initiatives and flexible working options.

If you’d like to find out more about us or the role, please get in touch with our recruitment team.