Senior Project Manager – Manila – Fintech

WE ARE:

Mabuhay! We’re looking for a Project Manager to join our team in the Philippines.

Adaptive is a financial consulting firm that partners with capital, commodity, and digital market participants. We value differentiation through technology. Our experienced teams design and deliver complex front-office technology solutions, using our proven accelerators to create long-term competitive advantage.

Our clients include the world’s leading investment banks, investment managers, fintechs and capital market service providers. With a global reach with offices in Manila, London, New York, Barcelona and Montreal, we have a proven track record delivering powerful, elegant and intuitive trading technology solutions.

Our Project Managers at Adaptive are leaders who set an example for Adaptive’s culture and values. Most importantly, our Project Managers give the teams the autonomy they require in their role to be motivated and grow professionally.

We are now looking for a PM to join our Philippines team on a new exciting project!

If you feel like this is you, you might be a perfect fit for this role!

YOU ARE:

• A strategic thinker with great communication skills

• A great relationship builder with your team and clients

• A problem-solver and team player

AS A PM YOU WILL ENSURE THAT:

• The project that you areoverseeing is executed as planned, on time and on budget

• Clients are engaged and informed, and ultimately satisfied

• The team has a clear understanding of the project goals and their place within the team, and are empowered to deliver on our commitments

YOU WILL:

• **Manage the project:

**- Understand the strengths and potential pitfalls that come with an Agile delivery philosophy based on personal experience

• Tailor and manage processes in accordance with the team structure and circumstances (different engagement models such as T&M or fixed price, variable team size, geographical spread and engagement length…)
• Work collaboratively with our clients to identify and document scope as well as building and maintaining delivery plans
• Provide accurate and timely updates on milestones and progress against a plan i.e burndown
• Actively manage and mitigate project risk

• Manage a product:
• Maintain a product roadmap, balancing requirements from multiple stakeholders
• Coordinate with Adaptive teams using the product
• Oversee production & maintenance of technical documentation and marketing materials
• Share knowledge with the Adaptive Support team

• **Manage a team:

**- Promote a Servant Leader mindset, empower highly-skilled team members to deliver their best and involve them in decision making

• Identify and drive the resolution of problems affecting team harmony and performance
• Understand various software concepts to discuss problems and orchestrate strategy with various talents in the team:

~ Developers: real-time programming, high availability
~ QA: TDD, BDD, acceptance criteria
~ UX
~ BA: backlog management, domain knowledge (exchanges, real-time trading, investment banking)
~ DevOps
~ Support

• Work with distributed teams (London/Barcelona)

• **Manage people:

**- Regularly lend an ear to your team members and listen to what they have to say about their job satisfaction, their aspirations... in the spirit of Adaptive’s staff management style: informal and collegiate

• Liaise with directors/HR to report relevant information (ex: career plan development, a personal event requiring support from the team/company…)
• Take part in the probation process for new members of staff

• **Manage resourcing:

**- Own the resourcing plan for the engagement

• Review proposed resourcing model with Delivery leadership, and maintain resource forecast in Kimble
• Identify gaps in the team, and engage with HR team to recruit new hires accordingly
• Participate in hiring of PM peers

• **Manage client & stakeholders:

**- Provide regular project status reporting to client stakeholders

• Use effective and transparent communication
• Actively manage the client’s expectations, make assumptions explicit and create an audit trail of important decisions throughout the engagement
• Liaise with the account manager to define & implement the communication plan

• **Report to Adaptive:

**- Report project status on a weekly basis

• Escalate issues to the respective Engagement and/or Account Manager

• **Commercial & Legal:

**- Understand the legal framework for the engagement

• Ensure that both Adaptive and the client meet their contractual obligations
• Escalate issues where breaches of obligations occur or are at a risk of occuring

• **Finance:

**- Own delivery of the target revenue and margin for Adaptive

• Control budget and actuals; forecast revenue & costs
• Manage costs (resources, expenses, licenses, vendors)
• Manage expenses in line with client agreement

• **Capturing and sharing knowledge:

**- Identify IP to be captured for Adaptive (code, process, functional knowledge)

• Liaise with CTO and head of Project Execution to agree on the plan to capture IP (how and when to capture it, how to share it)

WHY US:

• To be immersed in high-standard engineering culture. Our fantastic team takes pride in crafting complex technical solutions but also loves sharing their knowledge and helping you grow professionally (we have extraordinary minds at Adaptive ) You can learn from anyone here, which is the beauty of it

• To take part in the growth and development of a great company

• Our teams feel free to speak up, make suggestions and raise concerns.

• Collaborative team environment: we all work together, respect each other, and pitch in

• Great consideration for work/life balance (highly-flexible, hybrid working model, well-being benefits…). Balance between professional and personal life is massively important to us.

• We work hard to provide a positive, collaborative and inclusive culture and to positively impact our staff and local communities through different well-being, diversity and inclusion programmes.

**WHAT PEOPLE THINK OF US

**You can check our Glassdoor page

BENEFITS (What we offer in return // what you’ll get )

For permanent employees:

We create benefits with YOU in mind.

• 23 days PTO

• Pension plan

• HMO including dependents

• Medical allowance

THE PROCESS

Long interview processes are stressful and boring and that is not us

We want to make sure that everything runs smoothly.

So here you will have three stage interviews:
1- A chat with one of our great recruiters.
2- A zoom chat with our PM's where they will ask you detailed questions about your experience
3- An opportunity to meet with our Local Director either in our office or via zoom - so you can get to know each other.

But don’t worry; everything will be explained to you step by step by your recruiter.

Here is a little tip for you during those stages:

Collaboration is massively important to us, so don't hesitate to share your thoughts, ask questions, ask for help if needed, etc 😊

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION: 💜

Diversity and inclusion are key to a great workplace, and Adaptive is better when it’s more representative of the world around us. We want everyone to feel comfortable bringing their whole selves to work without any fear of judgment or negativity.

All we ask is that our colleagues are respectful, collaborative, passionate about what they do, and have the skills needed to be successful in their roles