Senior Project Manager - London - Fintech

WE ARE: At Adaptive, we are a financial consulting firm that partners with capital, commodity, and digital market participants. We value differentiation through technology. Our experienced teams design and deliver complex front-office technology solutions using our proven accelerators to create long-term competitive advantage. Our clients include the world’s leading investment banks, investment managers, fintechs and capital market service providers. With a global reach with offices in Manila, London, New York, Barcelona and Montreal, we have a proven track record delivering powerful, elegant and intuitive trading technology solutions. We are now looking for a Project Manager to join our London team on a new exciting project ! If you feel like this is you, you might be a perfect fit for this role! YOU ARE: • Credible and trusted by clients, with a strong consulting presence. • Confident to reason, debate and push back when needed, advocating for and protecting your team. • A senior delivery professional with a strong background in software delivery and software service delivery. • Highly experienced in Agile, including the end-to-end Agile delivery process, and confident challenging it where it isn’t working. • Skilled in creating and maintaining clear documentation, including setting up wikis for highly bespoke software. AS A PM YOU WILL ENSURE THAT: • Adaptive’s standard PM practices are combined with the programme-level planning, governance and release discipline used across the Accelerator teams. • Productisation and client delivery move forward together, with the roadmap turned into executable plans. • The team has a clear, prioritised plan covering product roadmap, client commitments, releases and dependencies. • Engineering, BA, QA, SRE, Product, Consulting and Client Delivery understand their responsibilities and can work without avoidable blockers. • Stakeholders receive accurate, timely information on progress, risk, scope, cost and decisions. • Releases are planned, tested, documented and communicated with clear go/no-go ownership. • Product and client feedback is converted into structured backlog items, roadmap decisions and reusable product knowledge. • Adaptive can forecast delivery capacity, revenue, margin and risk with confidence. YOU WILL: Manage the project: • Own and maintain an integrated delivery plan and prioritised backlog connecting product outcomes, client milestones, resourcing, and dependencies. • Proactively identify, track, and mitigate cross-team dependencies and RAID items across technical, operational, and commercial domains. • Provide regular status reporting, burndown tracking, and actionable options to address slippage or scope changes. • Manage the sprint and release cadence, overseeing scope cut-offs, go/no-go readiness, non-functional requirements, and support handover. • Protect product quality and release confidence by ensuring thorough testing, operational readiness, and transparent blocker triage. Manage a team: • Coordinate distributed teams and regional leads, address capacity or capability gaps, and support onboarding. • Drive continuous improvement via retrospectives, servant leadership, and resolving recurring challenges. • Empower team decision-making while expanding domain, delivery, and product expertise. • Foster a collaborative, psychologically safe environment across regions, roles, and workflows. • Drive cross-functional alignment across Engineering, QA, BA, SRE, Product, and Client Delivery while ensuring accountability. Manage people: • Hold routine 1:1s to discuss feedback, well-being, growth, and performance alignment. • Set clear goals and standards, monitor progress, and provide timely guidance. • Recognise high impact and provide obje