Senior Project Manager

About Rimes Rimes provides the Intelligence Fabric for Capital Markets, a trusted data network and intelligence architecture that transforms fragmented data, operations and workflows into decision-grade intelligence. The world’s leading institutional investors, asset managers, and service providers rely on Rimes to help them make better investment decisions that power more than US$ 75 trillion in AUM annually. The Senior Project Manager is responsible for leading complex, client-facing implementation projects from planning through deployment and transition into business-as-usual operations. This role owns delivery outcomes across multiple workstreams, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, within budget, and to a high-quality standard.   The successful candidate combines strong project leadership, stakeholder management, commercial awareness, and risk management expertise to drive successful client outcomes. They are a recognized expert within the PM function, the referral points for complex delivery challenges and you invest in the capability of the PMs around you as a core part of the role.   Key Responsibilities   Project Delivery & Governance   Lead complex, multi-workstream implementation project end-to-end.   Develop and manage project plans, timelines, milestones, budgets, resources, and dependencies.   Establish governance frameworks and ensure delivery remains aligned to agreed objectives.   Manage multiple concurrent projects and programmes where required, balancing priorities, resources and delivery commitments.   Oversee testing, UAT, deployment of readiness, transition into service, and formal client sign-off activities.    Risk, Issue & Change Management   Identify, assess, and proactively manage project risks, issues, and dependencies.   Drive mitigation strategies and ensure risks are escalated appropriately.   Negotiate scope and change issues with clients, clearly communicating delivery and commercial impacts and helping stakeholders make informed decisions.   Manage scope of changes through structured change control processes.   Manage internal and client-side dependencies with equal rigour, ensuring commitments are clear and the impact of non-delivery is actively managed.   Balance clients needs, delivery commitments and commercial considerations.    Stakeholder Management   Build strong relationships with senior client stakeholders, sponsors, and steering committees.   Lead governance meetings and executive-level project discussions.   Communicate project status, risks, and decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.   Influence stakeholders to support timely and effective decision-making.      Leadership & Team Coordination   Lead cross-functional delivery teams including consultants, engineers, architects, testers, and business stakeholders.   Drive accountability across workstreams and ensure alignment towards common delivery objectives.   Mentor Project Managers and contribute to the development of project management best practices.   Support improvements to PM methodologies, standards, and delivery frameworks.    Commercial & Client Success   Maintain awareness of project budgets and delivery costs.   Assess and manage the commercial implications of project decisions, risks, scope changes and change requests.   Protect delivery commitments while maintaining positive client relationships.   Support planning and delivery input during pre-sales and solution design discussions.    Preferred Background & Experience   Significant experience managing complex client-facing implementation or transformation projects   Experience within technology, SaaS, financial services, data management, or professional services environments.   Proven success leading multi-workstream, cross-functional projects.   Experience managing project scope, budgets, risks, governance, and change control.   Experience engaging senior stakeholders and executive sponsors.   Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop other project managers.   Experience working within Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery environments.    Desired Qualifications   Formal Project Management certification (PMP, PRINCE2, MSP, Agile certification, or equivalent).   Advanced knowledge of project management methodologies.   Experience using project management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, or similar platforms.   Understanding implementation, deployment, testing, and operational transition processes.   Comfortable adopting AI-enabled and emerging project management tools to improve planning, reporting and delivery effectiveness.   Only selected candidates will be contacted for interviews. We appreciate your understanding. Thank you for considering a career with us. Rimes is committed to promote the values of diversity and inclusion throughout the business. Whether it’s through recruitment, retention, career progression or training and development, we are committed to improving opportunities for people regardless of their background or circumstances. Visit our Careers page to see our complete listings.

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