Project Manager

Epsom, KT17

£70,000 - £80,000 plus excellent benefits including a generous pension scheme, private healthcare, personal development training, rising holiday and lots more. Hybrid working / WFH 2/3 days.

Keywords: Project Manager, PM, Project Lifecycle, Value Steam, Change Management, Financial Services, Banking, Finance, Agile, Waterfall, DevOps, Jira, Confluence, Scrum Alliance Master, Prince 2 Practitioner, Prince2.  

My client is a hugely successful organisation within the financial services sector. They are highly regarded and well-established. They offer a fantastic working environment as well as an excellent benefits package including a generous pension, private healthcare, personal development training, rising holiday and lots more.

Due to expansion, they are looking for an experienced Project Manager, ideally from the financial services sector, to support the organisation on a range of projects across the change lifecycle, helping to deliver the best value for the business and end customers.  

Project Manager – Duties:

Management of Value Stream and multiple projects and initiatives within it.

Working with brokers and third-parties as a working group to get input and feedback.

Encouraging, and coaching business on agile ways of working.

Engaging with the business and IT to ensure the effective running of cross-functional team.

Supporting the Senior Project Manager in the refinement of project processes and templates.

Responsible for planning and resourcing the project including building and leading a team of resources with the right capabilities to meet the project deliverables.

Responsible for creating and maintaining a detailed project plan.

Ensuring the project is delivered to the agreed quality standards to minimise rework cost and achieve defined project timescales.

Management of the Client and key stakeholders in terms of expectations, agreed scope, timescales, project costs, project invoicing, project resource management.

Reporting on project status, project costs & project invoicing.

Management of project risks, change requests and issues throughout the project life cycle.

Management of Relationships & resources with other internal departments such as Business Analysts, Finance, Marketing, Legal and Support/Infrastructure.

For appropriately sized projects working closely with the Director of Business Change ensuring that they are updated on project status, risks and issues.

Ensuring smooth transition to service for every project.

Project Manager – Requirements:

5 years + Project Management experience.

Experience of use both agile and waterfall delivery techniques and knowing what to apply when.

Experience of use agile tools e.g., DevOps, Jira, Confluence.

Previous experience working in a regulated environment (financial services preferred).

Scrum Alliance Scrum master qualification.

Prince 2 practitioner.

BSc in Computer Science/IT or similar, or equivalent experience.

Excellent communication skills.

Strong stakeholder management skills.

Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent projects.

Leadership of multiple, multi-disciplined teams delivering technical solutions across a variety of platforms.

Seen by clients and prospects as having a can-do delivery focus.

In return, my client offers the chance to play a key role in a growing Project Management team within a very well established (100 years+) financial services institution who can offer great career progression and a strong benefits package as well as flexible working.

Sound interesting and something you would love to be part of? Apply today!

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