Finance Project Manager - Product Control 100% (f/m/d) - (Contract through our external payroll partner, immediate start until 31.03.2028, possible extension)
Julius Baer · Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Banking · 5,001-10,000 employees
About the role
The Finance Project Manager will represent Product Control in the core banking platform replacement programme, ensuring business requirements are accurately configured. They will also manage testing activities, including SIT, UAT, and defect management, while collaborating with IT teams to design and implement solutions.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have extensive experience in large-scale banking transformation programmes and a deep understanding of Product Control and finance system integration. Proficiency in financial products and end-to-end testing methodologies is essential for this role.
Full description
At Julius Baer, we celebrate and value the individual qualities you bring, enabling you to be impactful, to be entrepreneurial, to be empowered, and to create value beyond wealth. Let’s shape the future of wealth management together.
YOUR CHALLENGE
- Representation of Product Control as part of the replacement programme of the Swiss host (core banking) platform: Ensuring the Product Control related business requirements are accurately represented and configured in the target core banking system
- Impact Assessment Product Control: Gathering of business requirements for Product Control applications (SAP and GTMatch-based) resulting from the core banking and markets / new risk management system implementation
- Data Analysis: Collect, analyse, and interpret business data requirements for the Product Control domain
- Solution Development: Collaborate with IT teams to design, implement, and test solutions, ensuring alignment with business objectives and stakeholder expectations
- Change Management: Support organisational change by communicating and syndication changes to stakeholders
- Test Management: Managing the testing activities for the Product Control function across SIT, UAT and dress rehearsal incl. support of test case creation and defect management
YOUR PROFILE
- Experience in large scale transformation programmes in the banking industry
- Strong experience in Product Control and banking operations in particular regarding finance system’s integration with upstream applications such as trading platforms (Front Arena or Murex is a plus) and downstream applications such as core banking or reconciliation tools
- Solid understanding of processes and requirements regarding P&L generation, valuation adjustments as well as bank-wide front to back reconciliations
- Hands-on experience in supporting the end-to-end testing as part of a large scale transformation programme as well as knowledge of the various testing types - SIT, UAT, regression, and end-to-end integration testing
- Solid understanding of financial products and services (e.g. Structured or OTC products, Exchange-traded Derivatives) and their process-wise interplay with Operations, Markets and Finance
- Hands-on and delivery focussed
- Fluency in English; German skills are beneficial
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