Project Manager-Capital Markets/ FX

Key Responsibilities

• Own end to end delivery of technology change across Rates & FX hybrid broking platforms (voice and electronic), including BAU enhancements, regulatory change, and integration programmes.
• Work with business sponsors and portfolio stakeholders to ensure proposed initiatives align to strategic objectives and maintain a clear delivery roadmap for the portfolio.
• Build and manage integrated project plans, milestones, and delivery commitments; track progress and proactively manage dependencies across workstreams.
• Cook up delivery across cross-functional teams (e.g., IT development, Compliance, Operations, Data, Infrastructure), ensuring clear ownership, sequencing, and operational readiness.
• Implement and own project and portfolio governance routines (status reporting, steering forums, change control), providing appropriate oversight and transparency.
• Identify, track, and mitigate risks and issues with portfolio impact; maintain RAID logs and escalate promptly to protect delivery outcomes.
• Partner with Finance and sponsors to track budgets, forecasts, and approvals; ensure spend is monitored and controlled in line with agreed governance.
• Act as the primary point of contact for delivery communications, providing clear, regular status updates to senior stakeholders and delivery teams.
• Drive delivery execution in SA Fe, Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid environments, adapting ways of working to meet business outcomes and control requirements.
• Effectively manage multiple concurrent initiatives with competing deadlines and priorities, remaining flexible in a dynamic environment with changing requirements.
• Coach and influence cross-functional contributors to focus on key objectives and be accountable for their commitments; fulfil adhoc duties as required to meet business needs.

Skills & Experience

• Proven track record delivering technology change in financial services, ideally within Rates & FX trading technology (voice, electronic, and hybrid broking).
• Experience managing multiple projects and workstreams, including geographically dispersed and cross-functional teams.
• Strong delivery discipline: planning, milestone management, governance routines, and clear status reporting to senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to identify, track, and mitigate risks, issues, and dependencies, driving timely decisions to protect delivery outcomes.
• Experience working with Finance to track budgets/forecasting and to support approval and control processes (where applicable).
• Strong understanding in at least one product category, Rates, FX, Equities or Credit
• FX: Spot, Forwards, NDFs, Options
• Equities: Cash Equities, Equity Options, Structured Products
• Rates: Government and sovereign bonds, repos, basis swaps, swaptions, inflation swaps
• Credit: Corp Credit, Single Name and Index Credit Default Swaps
• In depth knowledge of hybrid broking models, including:
• Voice trading and broker assisted workflows
• Electronic and hybrid execution models
• Trade and order capture across multiple venues and systems
• Strong understanding of front to back trading workflows:
• Front Office: pricing, execution, voice/electronic broking
• Middle Office: controls, validation, STP, exception management
• Back Office: confirmations, clearing, settlement, invoicing, payments
• Awareness of relevant regulatory and control frameworks, including MTFs, MiFID, FCA, EMIR, and market surveillance.
• General Understanding and Experience with Trading infrastructure, managing and understanding basic requirements around compute (cloud and on prem), databases, networking, etc.

Communication & Stakeholder Management

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce clear, concise, and structured documentation.
• Confident engaging with senior Front Office stakeholders and technical delivery teams.
• Ability to interpret complex trading concepts and communicate effectively to technical and non technical audiences.
• Service oriented, adaptable, resilient, and results focused.

Technology & Methodology

• Experience working within SAFe, Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery methodologies, applying the right level of planning and governance for the initiative.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and delivery tooling; experience with Microsoft Project and Visio (and/or BPMN 2.0) for planning and process modelling.
• Working knowledge of the SDLC and release practices, with a focus on operational readiness and controlled implementation.