Senior IT Project Manager

Senior IT Project Manager (B2B Financial Software)
Location: Nice (France) or Hybrid | Contract: Full-time | Experience: Senior (7+ years)

About Quantilia
Quantilia designs and delivers reporting and data management solutions for financial institutions. We operate in a pure B2B environment, working directly with banking and financial services executives who require high standards in reliability, security, and delivery quality.

Role Overview
As a Senior IT Project Manager, you will take ownership of client-facing delivery projects from initial discovery through implementation and go-live. You will act as the primary interface between the client and Quantilia’s technical teams, ensuring clear requirements, realistic planning, rigorous execution, and transparent reporting.

You will be expected to understand business needs, translate them into implementable technical requirements, anticipate risks and constraints, and drive delivery excellence. In parallel, you will identify opportunities to extend the scope of services and propose relevant upsells aligned with client value and Quantilia’s capabilities.

Key Responsibilities
- Client leadership and delivery ownership
- Lead end-to-end project delivery for Quantilia clients, ensuring scope, timelines, and quality targets are met.
- Structure and run client workshops to capture objectives, constraints, priorities, and success criteria.
- Convert business needs into clear functional specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Align client expectations with Quantilia’s technical constraints, product roadmap, and delivery methodology.
- Ensure projects remain controlled in terms of change requests, scope evolution, and commitments.
- Project execution and team coordination
- Build and maintain project plans, milestones, risk registers, and delivery dashboards.
- Coordinate internal contributors (engineering, data, product, QA, support), assigning actions and tracking outcomes.
- Monitor progress of the technical team and ensure delivery remains predictable, measurable, and well documented.
- Anticipate bottlenecks and resolve issues proactively, facilitating fast decision-making.
- Drive quality practices (testing, validation, release readiness, documentation) through to production.
- Stakeholder management and reporting
- Lead steering committees, progress reviews, and decision meetings with client stakeholders.
- Communicate status, risks, mitigation plans, and next steps with clarity and authority.
- Provide structured reporting to Quantilia management, including delivery health, client satisfaction, and escalation items.
- Ensure smooth alignment between delivery progress, contractual commitments, and financial objectives.
- Value expansion and upsell contribution
- Identify opportunities to expand project scope through additional modules, data services, integrations, reporting enhancements, or support packages.
- Propose upsells in a consultative manner, demonstrating measurable business value to the client.
- Collaborate with Sales and Management to prepare commercial proposals and ensure continuity of delivery commitments.
- Maintain a long-term, trusted advisor relationship to increase retention and growth.

Required Skills and Experience

Delivery and leadership
- 7+ years of experience in IT project management, including delivery in complex B2B environments.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams (engineering, data, product) and deliver predictable outcomes.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to lead discussions with senior client executives.
- Demonstrated ability to manage risks, dependencies, delivery constraints, client escalations, and change requests.

Financial services expertise
- Strong experience in finance, preferably within banking, asset management, insurance, private equity, or capital markets.
- Solid knowledge of financial instruments and related concepts, including equities, fixed income, FX, derivatives, funds, structured products, and portfolio analytics.
- Ability to understand the operational context and constraints of financial institutions (governance, compliance, audit, security expectations).

Technical expertise (hands-on understanding)
- Strong technical background enabling effective discussions with engineers and data teams, including:

- Python (scripting, automation, data processing)
- SQL (data extraction, validation, performance considerations)
- Tableau (dashboards, reporting logic, analytics workflows)
- Data science foundations (data modelling, statistical reasoning, quality controls)
- Strong ability to transform business requirements into implementable and testable specifications, including data requirements and reporting logic.
- Comfort working with modern delivery environments and SaaS constraints (APIs, data pipelines, authentication, cloud fundamentals, release management).

Methodology and ways of working
- Strong knowledge of Agile delivery practices (Scrum/Kanban),