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Lead Project Manager - Digital Forensics
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Job title: Lead Project Manager (Digital Forensics)
Duration: 6 months initial term
Pay: £750 per day PAYE
Location: 50% in-office attendee monthly in their Stratford, London office
About the organisation
Our client is an independent regulatory body in the UK responsible for ensuring the financial markets work well for the consumers and the economy, promoting market integrity and effective competition.
About the team
The Digital Forensics Unit (DFU) sits within the Enforcement Intelligence & Specialist Services Directorate (EISS) in the organisation's Enforcement & Market Oversight division. Its role is to provide digital evidence services for investigations, including the acquisition, preservation, recovery, and presentation of digital evidence.
About the role
The Project Manager will lead the delivery of strategic change initiatives within the DFU, supporting the enhancement of digital forensic capabilities that underpin the organisation's enforcement and investigative activities. The role will ensure projects are delivered to agreed scope, quality, budget and timelines whilst supporting operational effectiveness, regulatory compliance and stakeholder outcomes.
Responsibilities:
- Successfully deliver business and technical change projects end-to-end, from inception through to project outcomes, following quality standards and within agreed baselines of time, budget, and scope.
- Building and managing stakeholder relationships across the organisation, managing expectations, defining and agreeing scope, facilitating key decisions and managing exceptions and escalations as needed.
- Developing and implementing appropriate project management controls and governance to set up initiatives for success, specifically developing the investment case, project plan, deliverables and milestones to successfully deliver business outcomes, identifying and sourcing resources to achieve time and cost expectations.
- Validating assumptions and resolving dependencies, issues and risks within delivery.
- Ensuring delivery adheres to the Change Delivery Framework, including the Governance Framework.
- Owning and managing project financials, including budget forecasting, cost tracking, financial reporting and management of delivery within approved funding envelopes.
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What we’re looking for:
Minimum:
- Experience managing successful business and technology change projects (£multi-million) in Financial Services or for a government or regulatory body.
- Experience managing employees and third parties in a matrix environment, from inception through to end of warranty or exit criteria achieved.
- Evidence of shaping business ideas and initiatives into investment cases and detailed project plans for multi-workstream delivery to achieve business outcomes.
- Demonstrable evidence of planning and controlling project delivery.
- Strong financial management capability, including budget ownership, forecasting, cost management and financial reporting.
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Essential:
- Experienced at leading people through structural, procedural and cultural change, gaining commitment to new ways of working.
- Ability to build working relationships with sponsors, accountable executives, key business stakeholders and business SMEs.
- Politically savvy, able to balance conflicting strategies, priorities and personalities, resilient and tenacious to ensure delivery whilst managing conflict.
- Analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, identifying and managing dependencies, risks and issues to ensure successful delivery.
- Excellent communication skills, able to engage with all levels of the organisation, providing timely and meaningful communications to update status, share progress and manage stakeholder expectations.
- Able to use influencing and negotiating techniques.
Disability Confident: our hiring approach
We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, and therefore, people or individuals with disabilities and long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. In cases of high application volumes, we may progress applicants whose experience most closely matches the role’s key requirements.
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