Project / PMO / Strategy Lead

Role: Project / PMO / Strategy Lead

Location: Dublin

Job function summary

A Dublin‑based firm is hiring its first dedicated project, PMO and strategy professional to support the continued build‑out of its Irish platform and wider EMEA initiatives.

The role will sit close to senior stakeholders and cover a broad mix of project management, business analysis and strategic execution across front, middle and back office functions.

Principal responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate key change and strategic projects impacting the Dublin office and selected global initiatives, ensuring clear scope, plans and deliverables.
• Act as a central PMO contact for Dublin: maintain project plans, track risks and issues, manage dependencies and provide regular status reporting to senior management.
• Perform business analysis, including process mapping, requirements gathering and documentation, and translating business needs into actionable work for technology and operations teams.
• Prepare high‑quality presentations, dashboards and management reports that provide transparent insight on project progress, outcomes and benefits.
• Facilitate workshops and meetings with stakeholders to clarify objectives, align priorities and drive timely decision‑making.
• Help design and embed project governance, standards and best practices in Dublin as the first hire in this space, ensuring consistency with global models where appropriate.

Qualifications / skills required

• 5–10 years’ experience in project management, PMO, business analysis or strategy/change roles within financial services; asset management, hedge funds or broader capital markets experience strongly preferred.
• Proven track record delivering cross‑functional projects such as operating model changes, new product/desk launches, regulatory or risk/change initiatives.
• Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail; comfortable working with data, producing clear reporting and drawing out key messages for senior stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build relationships and influence across portfolio managers, operations, technology and leadership.
• Highly organised, able to manage multiple concurrent workstreams and operate effectively in a fast‑paced, performance‑driven environment typical of leading buy‑side firms.
• Self‑starter, comfortable with a relatively broad brief and the opportunity to shape the role and local project framework from the ground up.
• Strong proficiency with project and productivity tools (e.g. Excel, PowerPoint, and ideally MS Project / JIRA or similar).