Trade Project Manager - More Complex Programme

This role supports a complex, cross-border transformation programme focused on migrating trade applications and capabilities into France and decommissioning legacy platforms across Europe and the Americas within a regulated financial services environment.

• Strong experience in Trade, Markets, or Investment Banking environments.
• Proven track record delivering large-scale cross-border transformation or migration programmes.
• Deep understanding of trade lifecycle, financial products, and front-to-back trade processing.
• Experience with application migration, legacy system retirement, or operating model consolidation.
• Exposure to France-based regulatory, operational, or infrastructure environments is highly desirable.
• Strong stakeholder management across multiple geographies (Europe and Americas).
• Experience working in highly regulated financial services environments.
• Strong delivery, governance, and risk management capability across complex programmes.
• Ability to operate effectively in matrixed, multi-jurisdictional organisations.

• Lead end-to-end delivery of trade application migration and demise activities as part of a strategic consolidation into the French operating model.
• Manage the transition of applications, data, and processes from multiple European and American entities into France.
• Oversee complex cutover planning, ensuring minimal disruption to trading, risk, and operational processes during migration.
• Coordinate across business, technology, operations, risk, legal, and compliance teams to ensure alignment with French target-state requirements.
• Support detailed impact assessments, including regulatory, tax, data residency, and operational constraints linked to cross-border migration.
• Drive integration of legacy platforms into target French infrastructure while managing concurrent application decommissioning in source regions.
• Ensure all migration and demise activities comply with European and French regulatory expectations, including data retention and audit requirements.
• Manage risks, dependencies, and issues across multiple jurisdictions and workstreams.
• Produce clear governance reporting and executive-level updates for senior stakeholders across regions.
• Partner with architecture and engineering teams to define target-state solutions and execution roadmaps.