The Profile Group, Inc. - A Technical Placement Firm

Boston, MA

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

·         Work with our financial services clients to craft innovative solutions to meet their needs based on our portfolio of software products

·         Program/Project Manage client engagements with responsibility for project scoping, planning, resourcing, communications, budget management and project quality assurance.

·         Work with all external and internal stakeholders, including product development and product marketing, to ensure that all client commitments are correctly sized, communicated and understood ensuring the delivered solution meets or exceeds client expectations and is aligned to the product development road map.

·         Ultimate responsibility for successful project delivery, covering technology, process and client communications work streams.

·         Participate in pre-sales support activities

·         Work with account management and delivery teams to identify additional opportunities within managed accounts where our technology can be deployed to add further value to our clients.

·         Ensure that projects are delivered on time, to specification and within budget.

Experience

·         Client facing experience working with financial services clients at senior levels to deliver large complex technology solutions (5 years experience).

·         Excellent interpersonal, communications and project management skills.

·         Excellent project management skills with a track record in delivering large complex IT solutions, primarily in the Financial Services sector and preferably in the Fraud & Risk Management space.

·         Strong knowledge of current enterprise class IT system architectures including database, middleware and web product server technologies.

·         Preference will be given to candidates who have delivered product based solutions to the Financial Services sector, particularly in the following business areas: Asset Management, Brokerage, Trading, Settlements and Fund Management.

·         Proven leadership and team building experience.

·         Strong business analysis skills and ability to properly articulate and communicate key project goals and how they are to be achieved

·         Familiarity with expert systems (rules engines) and/or statistical principles and/or data warehousing an advantage

·         Familiarity with regulatory / compliance requirements for the financial services sector an advantage

Personal Attributes

·         Ability to work in a fast pace environment, think on your feet, and to engage in effective communications with both the business and technical communities.

·         Team player with excellent written and oral communications skills

·         Self motivated with strong Client interaction skills

·         Attention to detail

·         Ability to manage own and others time and juggle several priorities

·         Thorough understanding of technology issues and trends and how they relate to business needs, especially for the financial services sector.

Requirements

·         Preferably Masters level qualification in Business Administration, Economics Statistics or Computer science.

·         As there will be requirements for the person to work from Client sites, the person must be willing to be mobile and to spend periods of time away on Client sites.

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