Overview

Job Location:
Chennai – Unit 1

Management Level

F

Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries.  

EQ India began its operations in 2014 as a Global India Captive Centre for Equiniti, a leading fintech company specialising in shareholder management. Within a decade, EQ India strengthened its operations and transformed from being a capability centre to a Global Competency Centre, to support EQ's growth story worldwide.

Capitalising on India’s strong reputation as a global talent hub for IT / ITES, EQ India has structured the organisation to be a part of this growth story. Today, EQ India has evolved as an indispensable part of EQ Group providing critical fintech services to the US and UK.

EQ’s vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementary services to its client base and our values set the core foundations to our success. We are TRUSTED to deliver on our commitments, COMMERCIAL in building long term value, COLLABORATIVE in our approach and we IMPROVE by continually enhancing our skills and services. There has never been a better time to join EQ.

Role Summary

The job holder is responsible for the effective delivery of Corporate IT’s change roadmap and its constituent projects into Equiniti.  The role is accountable for the realisation of the expected benefits arising from projects and developing excellent working relationships with key stakeholders. Projects span IT, HR and Finance functions. 

Core Responsibilities

  • Ensure projects are delivered to agreed business objectives, requirements, schedules, costs, benefits and quality objectives.
  • Ensure requirements are accurately captured and solutions are appropriately developed to support generation of the business case.
  • Establish, control and monitor project timescales and budgets, obtaining appropriate approvals and authorisations, considering dependencies and taking appropriate action to overcome delays, difficulties or cost overruns.
  • Provide direction and support to ensure a smooth project initiation enabling budget approval and prioritisation.
  • Plan, communicate and implement change ensuring all those affected fully understand the nature and implications of such changes.
  • Establish and maintain good relationships with the business sponsors and Corporate IT colleagues provide objective guidance and advice to ensure effective implementation.
  • Develop and maintain key working and influencing relationships with appropriate colleagues in own and other business units; influencing ‘buy-in’ and to ensure new opportunities identified are exploited to the business benefit.
  • Ensure that all risks are understood and counter measures identified, minimising risk to the organisation, and maximising quality and timeliness of all deliverables.
  • Report on status.
  • Be the project manager for certain projects, where a full resource is not required but some level of management is needed on the EQ side, particularly where there is a 3rd party PM.

Specific Responsibilities

  • Develop and manage a detailed delivery plan, including delivery resources
  • Develop and agree reporting requirements, and use this to monitor and report upon the key activities, milestones and dependencies impacting the plan
  • Manage the key assumptions and dependencies underpinning the plan
  • Manage the delivery risks relating to the plan
  • Monitor and manage the resource plan and costs for the project
  • Ensure agreed governance for the programme is followed
  • Prepare a detailed activity schedule for all projects, current and future
  • Oversee the Sprints run by the team to ensure that the plan is being followed
  • Produce regular reports for HR and Finance detailing all items in the sprint and roadmap
  • Run Global Process Owner meetings to review prioritisation, requirements and provide updates
  • Work with 3rd parties, their PMs and the Workday team to coordinate activities
  • Understand the business requirements to add value to the programme

Key Relationships

  • IT, Finance and HR Global Process owners Senior Management and 3rd parties
  • Equiniti Workday SMEs, the Head of Corporate IT and Workday Manager

Skills, Qualifications, Knowledge, Competence & Mobility

Essential

  • Prince 2 or similarly PM qualification, with previous experience of successfully managing projects through the full project life cycle.
  • Experience of established project management frameworks and tools
  • Strong understanding of project governance and controls including scope & deliverable management
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to challenge supportively and effectively where appropriate
  • Developing and maintaining project schedules
  • Experience of Jira or similar agile tool

Desirable

  • Experience of Workday with extensive knowledge of configuration, implementations and business processes
  • Experience gained within financial services, pension sector or other heavily regulated environments

Benefits:

  • Being a permanent member of the team at EQ you will be rewarded by our company benefits, these are just a few of what is on offer:
  • 3 days of additional leaves on & above statutory requirement along with 2 days of voluntary leaves to pursue the CSR initiatives  
  • Business related certification expense reimbursement
  • Comprehensive Medical Assurance coverage for dependents & Parents
  • Cab transport for staff working in UK & US shift
  • Accidental & Life cover 3 times of concerned CTC

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks.