Senior Project Manager - 18 Month Maximum Term Contraxt

If you also believe that everyone should be able to achieve their financial potential, then you’ll love contributing to CMC Markets’ company vision of providing the ultimate trading experience. Seize the opportunity to progress your career in the fintech industry by joining a global leader in CFD trading and share investing. Grow yourself personally and professionally with a company that’s growing with you, by global expansion and product offering.

As our Senior Project Manager on an 18 month maximum term contract, you'll manage the complete delivery of a key project from system integration through to large-scale client migration. You'll work with developers, business leaders, and external partners to build something substantial that genuinely impacts the financial services landscape. When your work goes live, you'll see it in action, used by real people managing their investments

This role positions you at the heart of where business strategy meets technical delivery. You'll develop deep expertise across banking systems, trading platforms, and enterprise migration.

Why You'll like working here

Just some of the reasons you’ll love working here include:

• Leave benefits: Enjoy your birthday off to spend time with family and friends, on us! Utilise a free annual charity day to give back to your community.

• $0 Trades: Staff & family trading accounts with CMC Markets Invest have access to the best brokerage rates in the market - $0 trades for all domestic and international equity orders!

• Continuous learning: Our L&D offering covers both technical and performance training, ensuring you're always learning new skills.

• Unlimited access to a dedicated benefits & wellbeing hub where you can save money through various retailer discounts, and make use of a variety of resources that will enhance your physical and mental wellbeing

• Collaboration: We believe that great things happen when smart people work together, that’s why we’ve made the decision to work five days in the office.
   

• Office perks: Help yourself to free breakfast cereals, condiments, and coffee to fuel your workday. Our culture club provides opportunities for everyone whether you’re into fitness, pizza making classes, socialising or bringing out your competitive side in trivia or lawn bowls!

What you’ll be working on

You'll lead all aspects of the projects delivery, acting as the central point of coordination for this initiative. Your responsibilities will include:

Strategic Planning & Stakeholder Alignment: You'll develop the project scope and objectives with both internal teams and external partners, translating business requirements into a feasible delivery roadmap. You'll also present status updates to the governance committee.

Delivery Coordination: You'll manage the intricate dance of internal resources and external vendors.

Risk & Issue Management: You'll identify potential problems early, develop mitigation strategies, and escalate issues that need executive attention.

Quality Assurance: You'll work closely with testers and business stakeholders to ensure the technical delivery meets requirements. You'll also collaborate with our marketing team to ensure client communications, branding, and collateral launch on schedule and to high standards.

Training & Rollout: You'll define the training strategy that prepares clients for the new system, ensuring a smooth transition from the old platform to the new one.

What will help you be successful?

Over 5 years’ experience in project delivery and technology solution implementation, with more than 10 years’ experience in the financial services industry. Proficient in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies across the full software development lifecycle (SDLC). Possesses strong communication skills and holds Project Management certification(s) such as Certified Practicing Project Manager (AIPM), Project Management Professional (PMI), and/or Prince2 Practitioner.

You must have full working rights in Australia.

The things we live by

CMC Markets is powered by our people. We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, where our people feel confident to be themselves, feel valued and are able to do their best work. We don’t just value differences and unique perspectives, we seek them out and we invite them in, because we know it will lead to better outcomes for everyone

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We’re always on the lookout for great people, so even if you don’t feel you are a 100% fit, apply with your up-to-date CV and we’ll consider you for this role and any other suitable opportunities across the business. 

 We look forward to hearing from you! 

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