MUFG Investor Services Hiring For Project Manager at Dublin, County Dublin Full Time

MUFG Investor Services provides asset servicing solutions to the global investment management industry. Leveraging the financial and intellectual capital of MUFG – one of the largest banks in the world with $2.8 trillion in assets – we provide clients access to a range of leading solutions from fund administration, middle-office outsourcing, custody, foreign exchange, trustee services and depository to securities lending and other banking services.

With a diverse and dynamic network of offices across the globe, MUFG Investor Services provides challenging and rewarding careers. We achieve this by offering continuous learning and development, collaborative team work environment, promotion of work-life integration, and exposure to a wide variety of work.

Imagine your future at MUFG Investor Services where you can grow professionally, in a diverse and inclusive workplace that rewards your contribution.

Job Description

A Project Manager at MUFG IS is an influential change agent/trusted advisor with business and technology who drive and implement organizational priorities that add value. Project managers play a key advisory and change/ project leadership role in the projects’ early initiation phase (i.e., business casing) to the structuring of the project to implementation and handoff to BAU. To be effective in their role, Project Managers must be (1) resourceful and be strong relationship managers; Building strong working relationships with the project and organizational stakeholders at every level of the organization must be second nature, (2) Bring a blend of strong execution expertise and business knowledge, (3) adept at mitigating and managing risk and (4) have excellent communication, impact/influence and facilitation abilities.

As a member of the PMO team, the Project Manager directs and controls a variety of projects throughout a global organization, ensuring that the projects are conducted on time, within budget using project management best practices to ensure the highest level of quality. Implementing effective governance throughout the project lifecycle and managing the day-to-day operation aspects of the projects – Plan, budget, RAID, Resource and Status to ensure project objectives are achieved. Project Managers also supports the PMO with portfolio and resource planning and reporting.

You Will:
Ensure successful, timely and effective delivery of change projects

Developing project plans, budgets and schedules, managing tasks and teams on the project’s critical path

Responsible for scope control with stakeholders, task execution with the project team and relevant upward communication to managers and senior stakeholders

Helps define process improvements and feedback for the project, including any strategies required for timely execution

Gather or track the completion of necessary artifacts required for development of each project, including but not limited to risk assessments, technical architecture drawings, requirements, design specifications, testing, change plans, etc.

Provide feedback to project stakeholders, including specification feedback, issue escalation to managers or scope changes/clarifications to project resources

Update relevant project information in real time and work across all departments to deliver projects that align to the organization’s strategic vision

Assess and manage risks and issues, take corrective measures accordingly

Guard the viability of the vision and the business case

Flexibility to attend to urgent matters outside of normal business hours if/when needed

Qualifications

You Have:
Must have a Financial Services background, preferably Fund Administration or Banking

Must have 5+ years’ experience managing projects across business and technology

Demonstrated technical and business project Management skills

Proven track record of effectively managing and delivering multiple projects on-time, within scope and on budget

Successful track record in working with business and technology teams to define, develop, test and launch new products/services

Experience in authoring project plans, building a project budget and technical requirements

Experience with Agile, Lean, waterfall, hybrid and other project management methodologies are beneficial

Experience with Smartsheets, Jira, Confluence project management tools are an asset

Ideally certified or studying towards a relevant professional Project Management certification (PMP, Scrum/Agile certificates)

Additional Information

At MUFG Investor Services, we are exceptionally proud of our approach to Hybrid Working. It enables the flexibility to thrive from wherever our employees work and, stay connected to their team and our culture. When we make Hybrid Working plans, we get to know the individual and pride ourselves in underpinning all our decisions with fairness and consistency.

MUFG Investor Services provides all of its employees with an extremely attractive compensation package. In addition to base salary, there is a group medical insurance scheme, group pension scheme, reimbursement of professional subscriptions, paid holidays and assistance towards gym memberships.

We thank all candidates for applying; however, only those proceeding to the interview stage will be contacted. If you are contacted for a job opportunity, please advise us of any accommodations needed to ensure fair and equitable access throughout the recruitment and selection process. All accommodation information provided will be treated as confidential and used only to provide an accessible candidate experience.

MUFG is an equal opportunity employer.