Project Manager
Location: London
Contract Type: Employed – 12 month FTC
About the Job
The Project Manager will lead on transition activities, this includes designing, planning, and executing and ensuring regulatory compliance, operational resilience, and alignment with the firm’s strategic objectives.
The role requires close collaboration with stakeholders across the incumbent supplier, Finance Investments, Treasury, Finance, Risk, Compliance, IT, and external banking and custodian partners. The Project Manager will be accountable for delivering a seamless transition with minimal disruption to business-as-usual activities.
What you’ll spend your time doing:
- Project Leadership and Governance
- Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of the investment operations transfer project, managing scope, schedule, budget, and risks.
- Establish appropriate governance and reporting structures to ensure transparency and control.
- Act as the key liaison between both internal entities, ensuring clear communication and alignment of objectives.
- Prepare project documentation including business cases, project plans, RAID logs, and status reports for senior management and governance committees.
- Operating Model Design and Implementation
- Work with the Head of Investments and Finance Operations to define and document the target investment operations operating model
- Map and transition existing processes, systems, and controls to the new operating entity.
- Ensure roles, responsibilities, and service levels are clearly defined and agreed.
- Oversee testing, validation, and sign-off of all operational handovers.
- Stakeholder and Change Management
- Engage senior stakeholders across Investments, Operations, Finance, Risk, and Compliance to ensure effective communication of project status and risks.
- Facilitate workshops and working groups to define requirements, address challenges, and monitor progress.
- Manage change impact assessments and support training, and knowledge transfer for affected teams.
- Ensure adherence to Lloyd’s and regulatory standards throughout the transition.
- Risk, Compliance, and Assurance
- Identify and manage risks related to operational continuity, data integrity, and regulatory obligations.
- Coordinate with Compliance and Risk teams to ensure the new model satisfies all internal control, conduct, and reporting requirements.
- Support internal and external audit activities as part of project assurance.
What you’ll need:
Essential:
- Proven track record of managing complex operational transition projects within the financial services or insurance sector.
- Strong understanding of designing and implementing operating model changes across Financial Services or insurance businesses.
- Experience in cash management, banking oversight, and custodian relationship management.
- Solid project management skills (Prince2 / PMP / Agile not essential) with demonstrated ability to deliver under pressure.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication, and influencing skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving ability with attention to detail.
Desirable:
- Experience working within a Lloyd’s syndicate or broader (re)insurance environment.
- Familiarity with regulatory frameworks (e.g., PRA, FCA, Lloyd’s Minimum Standards).
- Understanding of operational resilience principles and outsourcing/insourcing governance.
- Exposure to investment systems and investment operations including trade lifecycle management, reconciliations, performance, and valuation processes.
- Experience in cash management, banking oversight, and custodian relationship management.
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What Can You Expect From Us?
As well as a competitive base salary and performance related discretionary bonus, here is a link to our employee benefits - Benefits of working at MS Amlin | MS Amlin
Hybrid Working
At MS Amlin we operate a hybrid working model to empower our people with flexibility to blend where they work. We value collaboration and believe that we work better together, our teams typically do 3 days a week in the office.
About MS Amlin
MS Amlin is a leading (re)insurer and part of the global MS&AD Group, with operations across Lloyd’s of London, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific. With over 120 years of experience, we support businesses facing complex and demanding risks, providing continuity in an uncertain world. Our expertise covers Property, Casualty, Marine, Crisis Management, Natural Resources and Reinsurance, backed by strong underwriting capabilities and deep sector knowledge. At the core of our claims service is TRUST - Transparency, Responsiveness, Understanding, Solution-driven thinking, and Technical expertise. This defines how we manage claims and build lasting relationships.
DE&I at MS Amlin
We will build a workplace where all talent is welcomed, and everyone has the opportunity to influence how the business works. We have dedicated employee resource groups that support our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) goals.
MS Amlin is proud to be one of the founding partners of Lloyd’s Inclusive Futures programme which aims to get more Black and ethnically diverse people into the insurance industry - supporting them all the way from the classroom to the boardroom. Visit this link (Inclusive Futures Impact Report) to find out more about the programme and its aims and achievements so far.