About Apex
Apex Group Ltd., established in Bermuda in 2003, is a global
financial services provider. With 50 offices worldwide and 5,000
employees upon the close of announced acquisitions, Apex delivers
an extensive range of services to asset managers, capital markets,
private clients and family offices. The Group has continually
improved and evolved its capabilities to offer a single-source
solution through establishing the broadest range of services in the
industry including fund services, digital onboarding and bank
accounts, depositary, custody and super ManCo services, business
services including HR and Payroll and a pioneering ESG Ratings and
Advisory service for private companies.
We look to recruit bright, articulate and numerate employees who
are not afraid of a challenge and are prepared to work hard and
love what they do.
Every employee plays a part in making Apex who we are today and the
more that we grow, the more important that becomes. Whatever your
career path or specialism Apex provides a global platform to allow
you to thrive.
The Role:
The Project Delivery lead should have extensive experience managing
teams of project managers in the delivery of projects to include
direct line management responsibilities. This role will work
closely with the PMO department to ensure successful delivery of
their teams’ projects in accordance with PMO processes and
controls.
Key duties and responsibilities:
• Day to day management of a team of project managers –
recruitment, line management, team morale, career progression &
training of a team of PMs;
• Accountable for PM teams ongoing deliverables – providing
technical expertise - ensuring project documentation is in place,
reviewing quality of project plans and project data, ensuring
milestone dates are met, ensuring changes are captured, risks &
issues are being logged, etc.;
• Measuring teams performance – work with PMO to provide metrics on
the teams delivery performance across the projects;
• Responsible for budgets – managing people cost and project cost
ensuring costs are in line with agreed budgets.;
• Resource management - work with Apex’s resource manager re
allocation and utilisation of project team across projects;
• Work with IT teams – IT Ops, Dev, BA, QA, etc. to understand
current issues around project planning/delivery and put plan in
place to address same;
• Day to day management of the overall programme and work stream
plans;
• Identify, manage and escalate risks, issues, assumptions and
dependencies;
• Identify, manage and escalate programme and work stream variance
to maintain baseline;
• Complete impact analysis and “What if “scenario planning as
required;
• Setup plan review/ status meetings with internal teams and 3rd
parties;
• Organises and present status reviews to management team;
• Produce summary level reports for senior management
presentation;
• Liaise with management from a resourcing perspective to ensure
resourcing plans aligned;
• Ensure planning documentation maintained and of adequate
quality;
• Ensure planning quality gates in place and achieved;
• Ensure efficient communication with all stakeholders.
