Aquila Consulting Group, Professional Recruitment Specialists

VP of Sales North America Treasury Software. Sales Director, Head of Sales, Treasury Software, Corporate Treasury, Software Product Sales, Professional Services. We are looking to identify a VP of Sales / Head of Sales for North America with expertise of Corporate Treasury Software and/or Treasury Software to work for a global Treasury Software & Services provider in North America. The role is a Homebased role and the location of the individual needs to be the East Coast, ideally around New York / New Jersey / Boston / Connecticut but the expectation will be for the individual to travel across the North American region to work with customers are located in all kinds of different countries and cities. Our client is looking for an experienced and successful Head / VP of Sales to manage the Sales Team which consists of Pre-Sales Consultants, Account Executives and a Sales Manager and provide leadership for an existing portfolio of accounts and client relationships across North America. There is an investment into the sales and business initiatives across the region and my client is looking for the candidate to provide sales leadership skills within software (licensing, renewals, upgrades, new business) to help with the further expansion of the regional business. Developing a broader portfolio is of paramount importance, but not at the cost of losing the current clientele. The Head / VP of Sales will report to the GM for America and be in close contact with the CEO, both of whom are dedicated to the future success of the region, ensuring new business wins, new clients, strong customer account management and client account satisfaction. The successful candidate will demonstrate first class account management experience covering, client account management, relationship management, partner management, stakeholder management, sponsor management, software product licensing and implementation services upgrades, up-selling, cross-selling, software support / defect fixing, customer satisfaction and services management, client revenue and & P&L management. The successful candidate will have previous divisional and business or sales directorship experience, and have an understanding of important business decisions. Market knowledge is essential and this person will need to develop a good network of contacts in this space, analyze trends in the market, as well as competition, work with internal business divisions to maximize the position and direction of the organisation and the sales for each customer. The Head of / VP of Sales will have a good attitude to work, tasks, managing situations, tasks and people, be positive, articulate, friendly, professional and above all else, helpful. Treasury experience is essential, software selling experience is essential and a successful track record in sales and account management is also essential. Over and above that, my client is looking to engage someone who is a friendly, personable, likeable, professional and hard-working, positive individual who can contribute to the business as a whole and roll up their sleeves to help other team members and divisions in any way they can. My client has a team orientated environment and they company is being rewarded for their ethics, approach and values with the growth that is being witnessed today. The success of the revenue you deliver will be down to yourself, your abilities, the relationships you have and can develop, as well as the ability you have to work with your peers across different internal divisions product, marketing, professional services, consulting, customer account management, and product support. The successful candidate will have first class references, demonstrate staying power in previous organisations and will need to have a huge hunger and desire to be successful in a new organisation.

We have an exciting opportunity for an Implementation Consultant with expertise of Treasury and Treasury Systems to work for a Global Software Company in Northern Europe (UK & Scandinavia. This is an exciting opportunity because the company is witnessing some real growth in projects, revenue, profitability, new client acquisition and client retention. As a result they are looking to add to their existing Implementation Services team. Our client is a specialist and global provider of Treasury software solutions and services and we are looking to identify an Implementation Consultant / Functional Lead / Implementation Manager / Project Lead / Lead Business Analyst with expertise of Treasury Systems, Software Products to work on a permanent basis in North Europe (UK & Scandinavia). The candidate will report to the Head of Professional Services for Northern Europe with the responsibility to lead the implementation of packaged treasury software to external customers in the treasury space across Northern Europe; principally the major financial cities. The successful candidate will demonstrate good, solid treasury business area expertise as well as treasury systems experience covering the delivery of treasury products from organisations such as but not limited to Murex, Calypso, Misys, Temenos, Oracle, SAP, Wall Street Systems, IT2, SunGard, Reval, Kyriba or ThomsonReuters. My client will also consider candidates who work in Treasury Departments with solid software systems experience and some implementation experience; i.e. Treasury Managers, Treasury Analysts, Treasury Officers etc. As part of this role, you will work with external corporate customers across the major financial centres in Northern Europe working with a portfolio of customers with multiple projects at anyone time all at different stages; you will need to demonstrate good client facing, people and communication skills. The experience you will demonstrate will be full life cycle, because your efforts will be placed into assignments at pre-sales stages, solutions design, RFP/RFI, as well as design-config, development, testing, implementation-rollout, go-live to also include training. If you are from the business side working in the Treasury Department, you will not need all of this. The successful candidate will need to demonstrate solid experience of all these different stages involved with the delivery of treasury / banking software product solutions. Some examples of your responsibilities will be to; liaise with the business - to analyse determine and document the business requirements to help the business find the solution to their business needs; Identify product configuration and customization requirements; Identify gaps between functionalities and business requirements; assist the business & IT staff with the parameterization and configuration necessary to deliver the functionality defined in the in Requirements Document; Organize and plan the detailed test strategy with the client; User Acceptance & Operations testing of the system with the client; Assist in the resolution of issues raised by the business during testing; Liaise with the business to understand the business strategy on conversion & roll out; Provide systems support during data conversion & branch roll out activities to ensure successful system roll out; Design (or adjustment to design) and deliver Training Courses to give the client a practical functional knowledge of the product(s). This role is based in either London or Copenhagen.

Business Consultant Private Banking Systems Securities Processing

We are looking to identify a skilled and experienced Business Consultant or Business Analyst with good technical grounding to work for one of our clients who are a fast growing and dynamic European banking software and services company. They have a unique and exciting opportunity for an additional consultancy resource as a result of business growth to bring software implementation consultancy expertise in the area of UK securities processing and settlements for banks. The role is a Contract role, but the client will look engage permanently moving forward and will see you work with Tier 1, 2 and 3 Private Banks in the UK on some complex business and technology change programmes. Our client is looking to identify someone with a solid and impressive academic and professional track record with good grounding in technology i.e. software and business systems but with solid functional area expertise of back office securities processing and settlements in the trade, banking & financial services space. The successful candidate will be able to put their hand to technical, functional and business tasks, work with technical resources onsite as well as offshore and have a good understanding of software design, configuration and development. As the specialist on securities processing modules, you will be providing consulting services to external clients on new systems implementations, enhancements and new functionalities as well as upgrades or even some support consulting work. Your role will involve analysing and understanding the customer's back office and settlement processes, supporting the bank in the requirements engineering phase, configuring the system to cope with the specified requirements and integrating the system within the Bank's application landscape. After general training on the system, you will get in-depth knowledge about the back office securities and settlements framework by working with some of our client's senior specialists who will coach you on one of their reference projects. The candidates will have the following; University or college degree in finance, business administration or computer science; A minimum of 5 years of working experience in UK financial services, either within a financial institution or within a finance software provider; A minimum of 3 years of working experience in the area of securities back office and settlement and knowledge of the relevant processes and interfaces, additional knowledge about securities trading is an advantage; Excellent analytical skills; Strong communication and presentation skills; Fluent in English, other languages are an advantage (in particular German or French); Must be willing to work and travel nationally and internationally

We have an extremely exciting opportunity for a smart, intelligent, well educated, communicative and business focused Quality Assurance Consultant with experience of working for a software vendor to join a growing global financial software provider. The role will see this person work on the testing, QA and fixing of the product development as well as the tailoring of that product to suit specific customer requirements. We are looking for someone with 2-5 years professional experience and someone who has worked on the development of software products, as apposed to bespoke development. This role is based in London, is permanent and will report to the Development Team Leader. You will have; 1st class or 2:1 Degree in from a leading and globally recognized university; at least 2 years professional experience ideally 2-5 years experience; thorough understanding of testing processes and methods; at least 1 year of automated testing; 1-2 years of functional testing; experience of working in an Agile environment; experience of developing software products; worked in small team environments (3-10 people); and ideally have experience on financial software applications; a good understanding of testing for major enhancements, new developments, upgrades as well as maintenance fixes and bugs; Microsoft Test Manager Tool Set. My client offers good training, an excellent, friendly, relaxed, team ethic environment with opportunities for growth and development. Many of the directors started as graduates with the company and have progressed over the last 10 years to their current roles. The company is growing and they will look for personalities who can offer their current team some good experiences, enjoyable work and projects, some good social events and ultimately product good work by learning and acting quickly.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Sales Executive / Account Executive / Sales Manager with expertise of Treasury and Treasury Systems to work for a Global Software Company in North America. The role can be based from home anywhere in the US, but the ideal location is New York with travel across the North American region to work with customers who are located in all states and cities of US & Canada. Your ideal current location would be New York or Connecticut or Massachusetts or indeed the West Coast which is where the senior / business managers are based. My client is looking for an experienced and successful Sales & Account Management professional to manage a portfolio of accounts and client relationships in North America and there will be the need to develop new business opportunities from the existing portfolio as well as with new clients. The Sales & Account Management professional will also build the portfolio to include new accounts and will be targeted on new revenue, recurring revenue and repeat business as well as customer satisfaction and maintenance contracts. The successful candidate will demonstrate first class account management experience covering, client account management, relationship management, partner management, stakeholder management, sponsor management, software product licensing and implementation services upgrades, up-selling, cross-selling, software support / defect fixing, customer satisfaction and services management, client revenue and & P&L management. The Sales & Account Manager / Executive will have a good attitude to work, tasks, managing situations, tasks and people, be positive, articulate, friendly, professional and above all else, helpful. Treasury experience is essential, software selling experience is essential and a successful track record in sales and account management is also essential. Over and above that, my client is looking to engage someone who is a friendly, personable, likeable, professional and hard-working, positive individual who can contribute to the business as a whole and roll up their sleeves to help other team members and divisions in any way they can. My client has a team orientated environment and they company is being rewarded for their ethics, approach and values with the growth that is being witnessed today. The success of the revenue you deliver will be down to yourself, your abilities, the relationships you have and can develop, as well as the ability you have to work with your peers across different internal divisions product, marketing, professional services, consulting, customer account management, and product support. The successful candidate will have first class references, demonstrate staying power in previous organisations and will need to have a huge hunger and desire to be successful in a new organisation.

A truly exciting role has arisen within a UK retailer looking to launch a mobile app.
My client is making inroads in ecommerce and as part of their 2012 business strategy are looking to further development their multi channel offering.
This is a great opportunity to work with one of the UK"s leading retailers and engage in a project that will have a positive impact on the bottom line.
This role is for an experienced project manager on a 3 month initial contract to work from development stage and engage stakeholders, internal departments such as operations and customer service to ensure a streamlined and successful launch.
The successful candidate will need to demonstrate core Project Management experience within a retail environment and be able to prove that you have worked on the launch of a transactional mobile application. You will be able to demonstrate good business practice and be able to work to standards and governance.
My client is dynamic and market leaders and therefore looking to recruit a delivery focused project manager who are able to deal at all levels.
The key to this role is being able to lead up the development and work with 2 external suppliers in the development stages.
Therefore strong supplier management skills are essential. The candidate needs to be customer focused and understand the importance of launching within the time frame set.
PRINCE2 qualified not essential but advantageous.

Senior Product Analyst

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and proactive senior product analyst to work for a business services Company and a leading provider of transaction processing solutions.  This company operates on a global scale by connecting buyers and sellers in over 160 countries through traditional online and corporate channels.

The Senior Product Analyst is assigned the responsibility for managing global products with significant associated revenue and will also take responsibility for leading other Analysts to ensure coordinated work effort for a given product.

In addition to the existing duties of a Product Analyst the Senior Product Analyst will be expected to represent the company at trade shows, customer events, industry summits and meetings as well as deputising for the Product Manager when required.

This is an exciting and diverse role for a product analyst to work with external customers to provide expertise throughout the product lifecycle to ensure it delivers the benefits of the business case and meets market requirements.

This role, you will be responsible for the design, development and delivery of the product and you must be able to lead and influence across functional team to ensure product meets the market requirements; achieves financial objectives and delivers operational value to the customer.

As the product analyst, you will need to develop the market requirements and articulate product vision in order to brief the technology development teams, customers and industry bodies.

You will be expected to provide competitive analysis, and all costs associated with the designing, development and deployment of the product.
This will require creating and maintaining a product roadmap that can illustrate and communicate product strategy and how this will mature and envelope to provide the customers with operational value.

Moreover, you will be involved in consultation, focus groups, and product expertise and support the commercial sales team to formulate customer acquisition and retention strategies.

Collecting, understanding, and writing the business requirements for the product, and translating these into functional specifications and use cases

To provide the link between the customer, development team and any third party regarding software functionality, throughout the development lifecycle

Day to day analysis and management of change requests in relation to the project plans to ensure agreed deadlines are met

Handling day to day development queries and verbally communicating business rules and requirements in an agile environment

Document workflows and results of business analysis and obtain sign-off from client on the specifications

Ability to perform and assist in UAT

Attend customer briefings, trade and travel industry bodies representing the company and its interests

Developing and writing market requirements documents

Conducting competitive analysis and providing internal and external messaging both written and verbal

Analyzing and writing user scenarios / stories for agile development methodologies

Facilitating the management of small enhancements and monitoring defect status

Provide key contributions to product plan and business case

Develop and deliver key product functionality messages for creation of sales and product marketing collateral

Role Requirements

Experience as a Product Analyst or Product Marketing Manager
Demonstrated success of defining, developing and deploying products
Extensive experience in a job managing product development
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Graduate Bachelor's degree (MBA preferred) or equivalently qualified by experience
Formal training/qualification or demonstrate able experience of new product commercialization
Customer centric thinking and acting
Outstanding communications skills for internal and external audiences
Excellent relationship building skills with a good understanding of different cultures and how to work with them to deliver results, in a global organization.
Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
Must be able to travel 40% of the time including global travel
Demonstrable track record of analyzing market requirements and defining product requirements
Experience in a software product management role in a global organization, but not essential
Extensive experience within the travel industry

We have an extremely exciting opportunity for and Services Sales Manager / Pre-Sales Manager / Manager of Solutions Consulting to join a globally recognized Tier 1 software vendor. Our client is looking to identify a commercially astute Solutions Consulting Services Sales Manager with expertise and a proven track record of software solutions selling across Banking & Financial Services dealing with portfolios of Tier 1 organisations across the UK. The successful candidate will demonstrate first class services sales, client management and solutions consulting experience covering professional services, software services, sales, client account management, partnership management, solutions consulting experience within a professional services space for banking & financial services organisations. The experiences we are looking for over and above personal characteristics are software services sales and pre-sales within Tier 1 and maybe Tier 2 banks and financial services organisations. The Services Sales and Consulting Manager will need to demonstrate a successful track record in Professional Services, Consulting, Banking & Financial Services, Software & Services and of managing a regional sales P&L including a portfolio of accounts with recognized household names. You will have previous experience of delivering revenue and profitability in a very competitive market place, banking and software delivery. The success of the revenue you deliver will be down to yourself, your abilities, the relationships you have and can develop, as well as the ability you have to work with your peers across different internal divisions product, marketing, professional services, consulting, customer account management, and product support. The successful candidate will have first class references, demonstrate staying power in previous organisations and will need to have a huge hunger and desire to be successful in a new organisation. This is a newly formed role, and has come about as a result of business growth and projected / desired targets that will now require someone with a Tier 1 pedigree to deliver. They key aspects here are Banking & Financial Services, Professional Services, Software Product Delivery Services. Tier 1 Consulting / Services Background. Please send CVs as word documents.

Our client is Europe's leading retail store automation technology innovator looking to recruit a contract Technical Specialist Gold Build.
This role encompasses retail, EPOS, store automation, hardware and software, systems integration, technical consulting - to provide pre-sales and technical support, technical input into bid proposals, assist in customer presentations and demonstrate solutions as required, proved technical professional services to the existing and new customers.
Provide advice to management on technical issues; facilitate customer workshops in defining the requirements and specifications for the development of gold build solutions.
Provide a technical interface into our client's development and 3rd party suppliers; to advise and mentor staff - support and test - recommending solutions to problems. For you to be submitted to the role, you will need to be able to demonstrate at least 3 years of gold build experience, and have specific experience in Wise and VB scripting.
This role will involve you assessing the effort required for the development or upgrade activities and produce estimates of time to be spent on work
To lead the analysis and design activities
To build the system/software and ensure robust testing, including integration and business environment
To ensure robust 'change control' is in place to introduce the new system/software
To ensure documentation is updated promptly and accurately to reflect change
The role will also need you to design and deliver user training
The environment fast paced, the company ambitious and dynamic and its people are results driven. We are looking for someone with expert retail and EPOS knowledge, or knowledge of the petroleum environment.
You will be able to appropriate, comprehensive and timely reporting of work and early escalation of any issues that may impact on the quality or delivery timescales
Proactively read technical documentation to ensure technical skills are up-to-date and effective
Identify opportunities to drive down the cost of delivery and participates in the design and implementation of specific programmes to implement these cost reductions
Provide one-to-one coaching, support and guidance to colleagues to develop new 'talent' within the Company
Get involved in ad hoc duties and tasks allocated through line management chain from time to time
Uses own initiative and takes full responsibility for own work
Requires minimal direct supervision or guidance
Contributes actively to resolve problems and issues
Be able to demonstrate good client-facing skills, preferably within a retail environment.
Please apply with word CV only.

Our client, a large, global and market leading business and technology services provider is looking to identify a Senior Project Manager to deliver multiple complex workstreams to a major international bank as part of a product roadmap for the Treasury arena in Kuala Lumpur. This is an excellent opportunity for a skilled and experience project manager with expertise of banking, financial services, consultancy services, treasury software and packaged software (product) delivery experience. The role works within the Services division of the Global Treasury, Trade and Risk Management business area and will see this person report to the Regional Operations Director and deliver banking, financial services treasury & risk management software products to the external banking customer. The successful candidate will demonstrate extensive and consistent project management experience over the last 10 years +, with demonstrable expertise of delivering software products within the banking & financial services space. This is a client facing commercially orientated delivery focused role, where the teams of multi-functional and multi-technical resources are based in different locations around the globe; most of the key resources are onsite in Malaysia, but we are looking for someone who has managed complex international projects with an offshore onshore structure and is therefore used to the challenges that this can create. The responsibilities are to manage customer relationships, 3rd party relationships, internal and external sponsors and stakeholders as well as teams based across the globe consisting of varied technical, functional and business resources. The design-config and development / build of the product is done offshore out-of-sight of the customer, and as such, we are looking for talented individuals who understand the complexities of onsite working, managing relationships at the same time as driving the delivery of offshore & virtual resources. The successful candidate will be expected to manage multiple projects at anyone time. The role location is Kuala Lumpur and the duration is 12 months.

Our client is a leading global banking software & services company specialising in core banking, treasury, trade, risk, wealth management and capital markets software. They have an exciting opportunity for a Project Office Administrator / Coordinator that would suit a Graduate, Entry Level employee or even better someone with a good academic record and 1-3 years experience in Administration. If you are looking to develop your career and work with a global company to help you step onto the ladder then this could be it.

My client works with Banks Government, Retail and Corporate and provide software products which need to be delivered. As part of the delivery, there is complex design and build work that needs to be done and with that comes a lot of administration project plans, risks & issues logs, change control registers, communication control, meetings & travel organisation, minutes from meetings, documentation distribution. The Project Office Administrator will need to cover for the Project Manager and Consultants when they are unavailable and help to manage customer relationships with the banks. This role will suit a Saudi national and will be based in Riyadh.

You will also need to demonstrate an excellent academic and if you have a good professional track record in project management/support with a thorough understanding of formal project management methods, processes, procedures, and support, this would be hugely advantageous

Our client has a unique opportunity for an experienced Project Director to deliver the Deployment of complex Banking Software Products for a major Thai Bank as part of a large transformation assignment.

Reporting to the CIO, the Project Director or Senior Deployment Manager will ensure the successful deployment of complex banking systems into the live environment and as such, we are looking for skilled, experienced and mature Project Managers who have experience of getting products into the live environment and getting them working properly bringing the ROI and required business benefit that the business has set out and demands.

As the Project Director, you will; have vast experience of delivering complex banking systems; have expertise covering the full life cycle and be well versed in all facets of the end-end delivery, especially bringing an understanding of the complexities that product deployments can present; extremely good knowledge and banking & financial services; solid stakeholder, sponsor vendor and 3rd party management skills; good commercial project management and delivery skills covering project finances, SOW, business case, plans/risks/issues, change/process re-engineering etc.

The role would suit someone who is used to Thai culture, has experience of working in Thailand and ideally someone who speaks Thai and even better is Thai or currently living in Thailand. This role will report to and work with some senior level Thai officials of a major bank and the expectation is to deliver. In order to do that, it will certainly help to have a good affinity with the Thai culture. If you are a certified and a qualified individual / professional in Programme & Project Management in one or multiple of PMP, PRINCE2, MSP, this would be hugely advantageous. Certainly degree educated would be important for visa / work permit purposes. Location is Bangkok.

Our client, a global and market leading banking software & services company, are looking to add to their UK Professional Services team by engaging a Project Director with experience of delivering software solutions to banks and an ability to mentor other Project Managers and instill strong governance across a portfolio.

Our client provides software for retail, corporate, investment, private and government banks, and we are looking for talented and successful project management candidates to work within the professional services business to work onsite with customers across globally. The Project Director will work with Tier 1 and Tier 2 Banks & Financial Services companies in the UK and Northern Europe and as such the role will suit someone who is flexible and happy to travel. This role will see you work with and manage the biggest global banks and manage the delivery of complex banking software products. The role will require you to manage the commercial aspects of the delivery, rather than the technical details and as such, we are not looking for development managers or technical managers. You will be ultimately responsible for the success or failure of your assignments and as such you will bring solid banking domain experience and ideally also packaged software delivery such as core banking, treasury and/or capital markets software. The Project Director will; provide guidance for other Project Managers and instill into the division strong project governance; manage external customer relationships to include partner and 3rd party organisations, business leaders, users, traders, brokers, systems administrators, as well as technical staff within the banks; manage internal business relationships across product, development, consulting, sales, HR, professional services, support and customer management; manage multi-faceted technical and functional teams based in different locations; manage projects with large amounts of offshore software development resources; manage the full life cycle software product delivery from design-configuration through testing and product build release and implementation/rollout; manage all facets essential for a successful delivery ROI, Business Benefit Realization, Earned Value (if possible), planning, risk & issue, change & configuration, communication so on and so forth.

The successful Project Director will therefore be commercially astute, be flexible to travel and to work on customer sites, have good banking business and domain expertise, and be able to demonstrate referenceable track record of software delivery with teams based in different locations. Please send CVs as word documents only.

Senior Project Manager Core Banking, Banking Software Delivery, PMP, PRINCE2, MSP, Banking, Financial Services, Fluent Russian & English. Our client is a large, global banking software & services provider for Tier 1, 2, 3 and 4 Banks (retail, corporate, investment, private and government banks) who require a Project Director to work on a contract basis who will provide leadership for the delivery of a new banking system that is going to be rolled out across the bank's operations. Our client is looking to identify an experienced Project Director / Project Manager with experience as follows; significant banking & financial services industry experience; 10 years + programme & project management experience; fluency in Russian & English; skilled at leading complex software projects with teams of resources based in different locations comprising of project management, technical, functional and business resources; proven track record of managing complex business and commercial relationships to include the project board, executives & directors of the bank, business leaders, users of the systems, technical staff (IT) and 3rd party partners / supplier relationships; software delivery covering the full life cycle delivery of core banking or similar banking software product. The ideal candidate will come from a large banking and/or financial services environment, understand the complications of delivering new business systems for banks, exposure to international projects, but the candidate must demonstrate first class project management abilities based on previous & referenceable successes. This role will report at Executive as well as C-levels within the bank and will be responsible for the successful delivery of a strategically important piece of work and as such will be required to work with the product company providing specialist consulting and project management services, the IT division within the bank and the business leaders requiring the new system and the executive committee sponsoring the entire works. The successful Project Manager / Project Director will need to understand business drivers, commercial decisions, full life cycle software delivery, the core competencies of project management methods, software product delivery and software development, as well as the core competencies of stakeholder, vendor and client management. It is essential that you are fluent in Russian and English and have a keen eye for detail, a mature approach with flexibility to adapt to business demands, people, situations and tasks.

Project Manager Treasury & FX Software Systems European Professional Services PMP, PRINCE2, MSP, MBA, Banking, Financial Services, Treasury, FX, Capital Markets. Our client is a leading and global supplier of banking & financial services software and they are looking to identify an additional Project Manager with expertise of Treasury Software and/or FX Software to delivery Treasury & FX software to external customers across Europe. This role is a London based role, with travel across mainland Europe and the successful candidate will therefore need to demonstrate flexibility and ability to travel. The successful PM will demonstrate a good understanding of software product delivery, Treasury & FX and have demonstrable successful track record of project delivery in a vendor environment. You will have worked for vendors/suppliers and understand the complexities around managing software projects with teams based in different locations, have the commercial skills and knowledge to work on the vendor side managing external customers, 3rd parties and internal stakeholders as well as business units with vested interests in successful delivery (sales, marketing, consulting, development, finance, support etc). As the Project Manager, the success and failure of the project is your responsibility as is the relationship that my client has with the customers. It is therefore essential that we identify a Project Manager used to managing a wide range of people from different companies, across geographical boundaries with varying cultural backgrounds and language abilities; with that in mind, multi-lingual Project Managers are desired. This is a London based role with travel across Europe. The Project Manager will also have a thorough knowledge and understanding of project management methods, processes, tools and techniques, and this will need to be demonstrable thorough the discussions. My client is looking for someone who understands the fundamentals behind project management, software product delivery, external customer management, full life cycle delivery, good academic and professional accreditations as well as track record. As the customer facing Project Manager, your responsibility will be to the external customer (the bank), and it is your responsibility to coordinate the activities of functions that are involved at each different stage of the projects pre-sales, solutions design, planning, offshore development, design & configuration, build, test, implementation, Go-Live and rollout. Your activities are to ensure that each stage and each team are performing, to keep risks and issues in check, and ensure that controls on the project are working communication, configuration and especially change. Any escalations or issues are highlighted immediately, tracked and raised at the appropriate time and in the correct manner, with the appropriate people. The emphasis of this role is the delivery of a software solution to the bank, so whilst it is important to have a business and strategic outlook, it is far more important to understand how a successful product is delivered bringing the required benefit and ROI to the external customer. Please send CVs as word documents only.

Banking Consultant - Business Analyst / Functional Consultant Core Banking Banking Software, Professional Services, Software Delivery. We are looking for Business Analysts / Functional Consultants to work for a large global banking solutions provider with expertise of Core Banking on projects to work in Canada based out of Vancouver. The base is Vancouver, but you will need to flexible to travel across the North American region. You will, as the Banking Consultant/Business Analyst, be responsible for advising and assisting external clients in preparation of the requirements documents, preparation of the product mapping documents, assisting the clients in the design, implementation, and support of a system that will satisfy their business requirements. We are looking to identify someone with experience of core banking, banking & financial services either with experience of delivering software solutions, or working on the bank's side in the areas that core banking covers (business / operational area). From a software & systems perspective, experience of banking is essential and core banking is hugely desired, so experience of products such Misys, SAP, Flexcube, Finacle, T24, Bancs etc would be desirable. There is extensive training and development available on the client products, systems, processes as well as training and development in terms of consulting, project management and systems delivery/integration. A thorough knowledge of retail or wholesale or government banking businesses, operations, accounting processes and procedures will prove advantageous as well as having a working knowledge of the operating systems, networks and middleware components. If you have limited IT experience, but demonstrate solid core banking expertise, this is also considered advantageous. We are looking for people with good banking domain/sector experience with excellent consulting skills who are looking to cross train to software & services consulting in the core banking space, or who already have some of this experience but who are looking to develop their career, or simply to gain new skills and experiences.

Project Manager FX Software Systems European Professional Services PMP, PRINCE2, MSP, MBA, Banking, Financial Services, Treasury, FX, MM, Capital Markets and Banking Software. Our client is a leading and global supplier of banking & financial services software and they are looking to identify a Project Manager who is looking to get to the next level in their career and identify a development opportunity. Our client works with leading Corporate and Investment Banks and provide a wide range of specialist software solutions. This role will work on the delivery of their FX suite and it would be an advantage if you already have FX or similar experience. Banking experience is essential, and I would say that vendor/supplier side experience would be advantageous. This role will see you work with the Head of Projects for Europe for FX and you will be mentored by some Senior PMs and Project Directors. As such, we are looking for bright, intelligent, enthusiastic, motivated, and commercially astute individuals with the right attitude and hard working mentality. Corporate and/or Investment Banking experience would be ideal because you will then be used to the environment in which my client operates, and the learning curve will be smaller. Good professional project management experience, good software "solutions” delivery experience is essential and a good academic background with proven professional experience to-date is also required. You will be based in London, or willing to relocate (at your own cost), but you will also need to have the authority and ability to work in and travel across Europe. As the Project Manager, the success and failure of the project is your responsibility as is the relationship that my client has with the customers. It is therefore essential that we identify a Project Manager who has some experience of managing a wide range of people from different companies, across geographical boundaries with varying cultural backgrounds and language abilities; with that in mind, multi-lingual Project Manager would have an advantage. The Project Manager will have a good knowledge and understanding of project management methods, processes, tools and techniques, and this will need to be demonstrable thorough the discussions. My client is looking for someone who understands the fundamentals behind project management, software product delivery, external customer management, full life cycle delivery, good academic and professional accreditations as well as track record and is looking to challenge themselves at the next level. As the customer facing Project Manager, your responsibility will be to the external customer (the bank), and it is your responsibility to coordinate the activities of functions that are involved at each different stage of the projects pre-sales, solutions design, planning, offshore development, design & configuration, build, test, implementation, Go-Live and rollout. Your activities are to ensure that each stage and each team are performing, to keep risks and issues in check, and ensure that controls on the project are working communication, configuration and especially change. Any escalations or issues are highlighted immediately, tracked and raised at the appropriate time and in the correct manner, with the appropriate people. The emphasis of this role is the delivery of a software solution to the bank, so whilst it is important to have a business and strategic outlook, it is far more important to understand how a successful product is delivered bringing the required benefit and ROI to the external customer. Please send CVs as word documents only.

An exceptional opportunity has arisen for a Business Analyst to work for a tier 1 retailer who has an excellent name in the market place.
This role is for a 2 month contract with an immediate start.
This role requires an experienced BA who has an understanding of retail and Business intelligence. You will have experience of data warehousing products such as cognos.
The role will require the BA to come from a technical background and understand the importance
of IT in a retail company and therefore be able to communicate this with the other sides of the business. Ability to communicate well and collaborate with others, demonstrate leadership skills, within an ever changing fast paced environment such as retail, you will have the willingness to drive and embrace change
The role involves documenting requirements and designing systems that address and alleviate the businesses problems. You will act as a key member of a project team; you'll be influential in supporting the development and delivery of process design.Working closely with the business to define and express future processes, you'll ensure change facilitates improvements

Services Director/ Programme Director - Heath Care IT Services Riyadh

Services Director/ Programme Director - Healthcare & IT Services Riyadh PMP, PRINCE2, MSP, Software & Services, Healthcare, Professional Services, IT Services, Consultancy Services. Our client is one of the world's largest IT & Business Services providers and ultimately also one of the world's largest companies. They specialise in a wide variety of industry sectors, business areas, and technologies, but the area in question here is software & services, and technology services for the healthcare industry.

We are currently looking for an expereinced Services Director/ Programme Director with relevant vendor side expereince ideally from a consulting organisation, software product & services company or a professional services company. A knowledge of Project, Programme and Portfolio Management is another vital requirement of the role. Software delivery experience is preferable but more important is an understanting of the client side software delivery, client management, stakeholder management, sponsor management, regional business management, P&L management, professional services management, sales support, and commercial management.
This person will not be responsilbe for Sales and Systems Support but they will take over full responsibility post sale and handover at Go-Live / Post - Implementation.

You will be responsible for a team of circa 20 which consists of Project Managers, Support Engineers and Technical Consultants. The cleint base in the Middle East does posses several challenges of a politcal, commercial and business perspective. As such a successful candidate will need to be confident and self-assured, intelligent, smart and quick-wited, well qualified, assertive, commercially astute and above all else, know what they are talking about in order to command respect with ease and quickly.

This person will need to change the culture of the servies unit where at present there exists a large sales focus which in turn leads to difficulties for the systems support team where they have to deal with a multitude of technical and commercial problems not to mention contractual complications. People will need to be trained, upskilled and a certain degree of cross-skilling will also need to take place. Project Governance needs to be put in place, implemented and rolled out across the region to ensure that buy-in is achieved and practical application is adhered to. You will also be required to engage in the hiring of new people. A dashboard of projects will need to be put in place, tracked and managed and a culture of true services and project management knowledge needs to be instilled.

This postion is headquartered in Riyadh and will involve travel to various sites throughout the Middle East including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE and Qatar. You will report directly to the Services Director for CIS, Eurasia, Middle East and Africa.

Business Consultant Project Lead/Business Analyst Portfolio Management Software New York. Our client is a specialist and global provider of Portfolio Management Software & Services for the Investment & Fund Management space and we are looking to identify a Business Consultant / Functional Lead / Implementation Manager / Project Lead / Lead Business Analyst with expertise of Buy-Side Funds & Investment Management Systems, Software Products to work on a permanent basis in New York. The candidate will report to the Head of Services for North America with the responsibility to lead the implementation of packaged portfolio management software to external customers in the capital markets space across North America (Brokerage firms and Banks). The successful candidate will demonstrate good, solid Investment Management, Asset Management, Fund Management business area and systems experience covering the delivery of software products. As part of this role, you will work with external financial services customers in New York working with a portfolio of customers with multiple projects at anyone time all at different stages. The experience you will demonstrate will be full life cycle, because your efforts will be placed into assignments at pre-sales stages, solutions design, RFP/RFI, as well as design-config, development, testing, implementation-rollout, go-live to also include training. The successful candidate will need to demonstrate solid experience of all these different stages involved with the delivery of portfolio management software product solutions. Some examples of your responsibilities will be to; liaise with the business - to analyse determine and document the business requirements to help the business find the solution to their business needs; Identify product configuration and customization requirements; Identify gaps between functionalities and business requirements; assist the business & IT staff with the parameterization and configuration necessary to deliver the functionality defined in the in Requirements Document; Organize and plan the detailed test strategy with the client; User Acceptance & Operations testing of the system with the client; Assist in the resolution of issues raised by the business during testing; Liaise with the business to understand the business strategy on conversion & roll out; Provide systems support during data conversion & branch roll out activities to ensure successful system roll out; Design (or adjustment to design) and deliver Training Courses to give the client a practical functional knowledge of the product(s). This role is based in New York.