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.