COO Project Manager

About Columbia Threadneedle Investments

What working at Columbia Threadneedle offers....

Working at Columbia Threadneedle Investments you'll find the promise we make to our clients is the same one we make to our employees: Your success is our priority.

Here, you'll find growth and career opportunities across all of our businesses. We're intentionally built to help you succeed. Our reach is expansive with a global team of 2,000 people working together. Our expertise is diverse with more than 450 investment professionals sharing global perspectives across all major asset classes and markets. Our clients have access to a broad array of investment strategies, and we have the capability to create bespoke solutions matched to clients' specific requirements.

Job Purpose Statement

Where you'll fit in & what our team goals are...

Assist the COO in the smooth running of their global responsibilities by supporting in: preparedness for relevant governance forums and boards; understanding and helping resolve cross-functional issues; understanding and driving forward initiatives and change; the management of small/medium business projects directly within the portfolio of the COO.
Delivers all relevant information and MI to facilitate the COO in decision making, including representation of GOIS functions.

Role Responsibilities

How you'll spend your time...

• Partner with business functions across a full span of leadership; demonstrates an ability to look at processes across operations, compliance, distribution and finance.
• Application of project management skills and mindset to variety of business projects; especially those focused around control and process enhancement.
• Production of responses, written reports and presentations under the supervision or direction of the COO Coordination and support for key meetings to facilitate learning and collaboration.
• Deliver all necessary MI and reporting and provide analytical overlay.
• Design MI and reporting solutions to provide new insights.
• Coordinate and manage open issues and actions on behalf of the COO. Develop and maintain ongoing timeline and deliverables plans and track these to completion to ensure the COO is supported to meet the required deadlines and responds to all the relevant stakeholders.
• Liaise with other GOIS functions and others with functional or regional support roles to ensure delivery of key tasks in support of the COO such as MI provision, board and governance reporting and issue resolution. Review all reports prior to submission and raise any escalations/queries with the report owner or COO, as appropriate.
• Represent the COO on key initiatives and actions to others (in absence of the COO). The BM should be able to take the initiative to ensure the COO's decisions and preferences made in one case are consistently carried across the remainder of the business as appropriate.
• Represent the COO where appropriate, for example on assigned cross-functional projects.
• Understand the GOIS financials at a global level, including budget, high level variations and cost drivers.

Key Capabilities

To be successful in this role you will have...

• Strong inter-personal skills, confident and comfortable working with senior managers
• Able to build effective relationships and work collaboratively across diverse business areas
• Proactive, able to take initiative and ability to learn fast
• Highly numerate
• Capable of analysing significant amounts of data and capturing or summarising relevant information
• Articulate with effective verbal and written communication skills
• Strong with MS Word/Power Point/Excel
• Trusted with confidential information
• Ability to apply project management skills and mindset to variety of business projects; especially those focused around control and process enhancement

Desired Capabilities

If you also had this, it would be great...

• Can demonstrate a flexible approach and be adaptive to a fluctuating workload.
• A strong BA with some project management; breadth of background across functions.