Senior Project Manager at Bravura Solutions

General Information Team: Sonata Close date: Friday, 05 December 2025 Working pattern: Full time Contract Type: Permanent Location: London Department: 6 - 06 Portfolio Management EMEA WM Description & Requirements: Bravura’s Commitment and MissionAt Bravura Solutions, collaboration, diversity and excellence matter. We value your ideas, giving you room to be curious and innovate in an exciting, fast-paced, and flexible environment. We look for many different skills and abilities, as well as how you can add value to Bravura and our culture.As a Global FinTech market leader and ASX listed company, Bravura is a trusted partner to over 350 leading financial services clients, delivering wealth management technology and products. We invest significantly in our technology hubs and innovation labs, which inspire and drive our creative, future-focused mindset. We take pride in developing cutting-edge, digital first technology solutions that support our clients to achieve financial security and prosperity for their customers.Position PurposeThe Senior Project Manager will be responsible for delivering large projects to our Sonata Wealth customers. This will involve managing the full end to end project lifecycle including managing customer relationships to deliver successful shared outcomes, providing leadership to the Bravura project teams, providing control, risk management, reporting and maintaining plans and tracking deliverables.Main ActivitiesClient Management: full responsibility for the relationship with senior members of change management teams within one or more of Bravura’s clientsPlanning Management:  Ensure Bravura’s plan is achievable and fits in with the clients overall programme plan. Plans will involve the full end-to-end delivery lifecycle. Ensuring the budget, timescales and expected benefits are tracked and met. Planning activities will include all ongoing and future projects, product changes and use of Bravura’s services.Project Accountability: provides a focus of accountability to the client and Bravura for the delivery of client projects. This includes accountability for the quality delivery of projects against time, cost and expected benefits targetsContractual Accountability: ensuring that Bravura Solutions delivers against contracted commitments, and protecting Bravura by tracking that the client meets their commitmentsProject Delivery: establishing and managing effective multi workstream project operations to deliver quality outcomesReporting: providing accurate and timely reporting, internally and externally, and ensuring that appropriate management information is available on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. Agreeing with the clients management team the structure of the management reporting and communication processes across all levels of the project and client organisation. Ensuring Bravura meets its obligations to provide accurate information within the reporting structure.Client Programme: maintain awareness and understanding of the clients’ overall programme plan, to ensure its dependencies on Bravura’s plan are achievable and met by the client; escalate to the client and internally where issues are highlighted with the client’s planGovernance: Ensuring that Bravura Solutions’ processes and policies are adhered to with a continual focus on industry and organisation best practiceResource Management: defining and managing necessary project resources. Controlling project schedules to ensure that necessary modules and programs are completed according to the project plan.Financial Management: Preparing project budgets, attaining necessary approvals in a timely manner and monitoring and tracking project financials, analysing budget variances, and recommending appropriate action.Key skillsStrong understanding and application of Project Management competencies including scope, cost, time, quality, HR, communications, risk, procurement, and integrationEffective leadership, relationship, coordination, motivational, negotiation and dispute resolutions skillsStrong customer service ethos, a commitment to quality and the will to constantly drive improvementsFinancial management / reporting and analysis skillsStrong commercial & contract management skillsA strong track record of technology delivery successAbility to build, develop and maintain relationships with client counterpartsStrong knowledge of project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, and PRINCE2) especially understanding the advantages and disadvantages of each, and how they can be brought together to provide the right hybrid model for a delivery if necessary.Knowledge of industry standard requirements definition, development and testing practices and standardsExperience working with off-shore development teams, either in house or externalPersonal CharacteristicsConsultative and an effective influencerAbility to apply analytical skill and conceptual thinking to project related activities and workAbility to collaborate with clients Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation and facilitation skills Resilience including the ability to work effectively under time pressureAbility to work in a team environment Proactive approach to workProven eagerness for continual personal developmentCommercial awareness Capable of working on-site at client offices Qualifications and Experience10+ years' experience as a project manager working within an IT and financial services-based functionExperience in owning the delivery of large-scale packaged software implementations Experienced in consultancy based project delivery with a focus on client relationship managementDomain knowledge of the wealth management or platform industry Experience of leading multiple projects across different locationsEducated to degree level in a science, engineering or mathematical subjectSo, what’s next?We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion so even if you don’t match every listed skill or tick all the boxes, we’d still love to hear from you.Please note that interviews are primarily conducted virtually and if you require any reasonable adjustments or would like to note which pronouns you use, please let us know.All final applicants for this position will be asked to consent to a criminal record and background check. Please note that people with criminal records are not automatically barred from applying for this position. Each application will be considered on its merits. Share this job: Apply Now