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Project Manager

Chester
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Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Chester, UK.

Roles and Responsibilities:

The Project Manager will translate business strategy into work programs and processes, providing strategic and tactical direction on IT and client/business area issues. This role involves direct management of a specialty function or leadership of lower-level managers/team leaders.

Experience:

  • Minimum of 9 years of total experience.
  • Minimum of 2 years as a Technical Program Manager / Project Manager.
  • Minimum of 2 years as a programmer or analyst/designer in a financial environment.

Preferred Skills / Candidate Focus:

  • Proven experience delivering Cross-Border and International Payments initiatives within regulated banking or financial services environments.
  • Strong background in managing regulatory change and complex payments transformation programs.
  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate across Technology, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and Business teams.
  • Experience managing complex stakeholder landscapes and driving successful end-to-end payment delivery.
  • Knowledge of payment schemes and standards such as SWIFT, ISO 20022, SEPA, CHAPS, Faster Payments, or similar is highly desirable.

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Industry Knowledge:

  • Experience with Treasury Services / Investment Banking processes and products.
  • Experience with Payments within Banking (SEPA, SWIFT, ChAPS, RTP)

Certifications: PMP, PgMP, or similar certifications.

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About Us:

Ascendion is a global, leading provider of AI-first software engineering services, delivering transformative solutions across North America, APAC, and Europe. We are headquartered in New Jersey. We combine technology and talent to deliver tech debt relief, improve engineering productivity solutions, and accelerate time to value, driving our clients’ digital journeys with efficiency and velocity. Guided by our “Engineering to the power of AI” [EngineeringAI] methodology, we integrate AI into software engineering, enterprise operations, and talent orchestration, to address critical challenges of trust, speed, and capital.

For more information, please go to www.ascendion.com.

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Skills

Project Management
Technical Program Management
Cross-Border Payments
International Payments
Regulatory Change Management
Stakeholder Management
SWIFT
ISO 20022
SEPA
CHAPS
Faster Payments
Treasury Services
Investment Banking
Financial Services
Payment Transformation

Location

Chester, England, United Kingdom

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