Senior Delivery Manager

**Senior Delivery Manager - Regulatory experience / Transaction Reporting**

**About the client -**

An opportunity to join the UK's number 1 'investment supermarket' for private investors who are trusted with more than £100 billion by over 1.4 million clients. They are a secure, FTSE 100 company, based in the heart of Bristol now with over 1,700 peopleand a service to be proud of. A growing company with a small company spirit and a great ethos, who are steered by their core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything they do.

**About You**:
They are looking for Senior Delivery Managers that can join a collaborative team of individuals within their digital division who are broad skilled with the ability to work on complex, high-risk project or product and services. You will be required to haveexperience throughout the entire lifecycle.

**Role Overview**:
The role of the Transaction Reporting Delivery Manager is to lead a programme of change to uplift HLs Transaction Reporting capability. The role will require managing the implementation of a revised operating model with optimised business processes and arevised control framework to monitor reporting.

**Role Accountabilities**:

- Leading the delivery efforts of autonomous teams in achieving delivery goals and high performance
- Influences and drives multiple teams to the delivery of the business' outcomes
- Influence and manages the priorities at the team level
- Lead and build the delivery plan for complex initiatives/ Products by working with relevant stakeholders.
- Continuously assess the team's approach and work with the Agile Coach to adapt planning tools, Agile methods, and communication to ensure a successful and sustainable delivery
- Help to drive and define what good looks like from delivery perspective.
- Help define and drive the maturing of Delivery Assurance within the business.
- Manage Products/Initiatives through all stages of the Delivery lifecycle
- Be an advocate for transparency, pragmatism and using data to drive decisions
- Proactively represent delivery to wider stakeholders advocate the delivery processes
- Supports transparency and predictability across teams using appropriate tools and metrics consistently to describe to the business the progress being made against delivery
- Mentors and coaches' direct reports and other in the team working closely with the communities of practise, to help them develop.
- Advocate being outcome focused not output.
- Manages the tracking of programme/project performance (finance/scope)
- Leads efforts in being client focused
- Good stakeholder management and interpersonal skills
- Builds long term capability, through nurturing and promoting self-organisation, leading to an increased transparency and trust through autonomy, mastery and purpose.
- Communally facilitate the centre of excellence for delivery
- Co-ordinate with Agile coach to promote Agile best practice and processes across teams
- Encourage teams to improve through shared learning experiences and expanding their knowledge by being involved in community activities

**Experience and Skills**:

- Previous experience within wealth management and ideally in a regulatory transaction reporting environment
- Understanding of MIFID II transaction reporting regulation
- Previous experience managing multiple teams, to deliver planned changes to the reporting flow
- Strong experience in managing Technology Product Teams, Middle Office, Data and Compliance Functions to facilitate deliverable delivery
- Strong Data Management experience
- Experience of working on a cloud migration project, with working knowledge either Microsoft or AWS platform technologies
- Able to understand technical deliveries and challenge at SME's at a high level
- Experience of leading large scale E2E Data projects
- Significant experience in managing and maintaining core product/ Initiatives
- Working with throughput metrics and being able to provide proactive forecasting
- Demonstrable expertise and experience in working within agile environments
- Experience of delivery in a software engineering environment within a continuous integration/delivery (CICD) environment
- Successfully run agile deliveries through a delivery lifecycle of varying size and complexity from start to finish
- Knowledgeable about different agile methodologies, their relevant to specific situations and expected benefits.
- Experience working closely with customers to understand, negotiate and adapt priority changes
- Be responsible for thinking laterally and understand the impact of decisions to the wider environment
- Be able to manage stakeholders, influence them to the correct result
- Drive new ways of thinking within the business and tech teams
- Advocate on behalf of the team and department with wider stakeholder groups.
- Ensure alignment of the Team's work with wider business priorities.
- Lead other delivery managers to achieving programme goals
- Experience of product/initiative related problem solving within a complex business environment with time constraints.
- Experience in working with platform, service, and product teams where dependencies are complicated
- Abreast of software development processes
- Proficient report writing and excel skills
- Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills

**What would make you stand out**:

- Banking and/or financial industry or similar regulated environment experience
- Digital, CRM, or working in a regulated, data driven environment would be ideal
- Extensive Delivery Management experience in an Agile/Lean environment