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Job title: Senior Project Manager (Critical Third Parties)
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
We are currently recruiting for a Project Manager, reporting into a Programme Manager, to join us within the Change department of the organisations Supervision, Policy and Competition directorate.
Sitting within the Specialist Directorate, our Technology, Resilience and Cyber (TRC) department works with financial firms to strengthen the resilience of their systems against cyber threats and operational disruptions - helping protect consumers, safeguard markets and build trust in the technology that powers financial services.
About the role
We're seeking an experienced hybrid Senior Project Manager and PMO to join a high-profile programme focused on Critical Third Parties within financial services. Operating within a complex regulatory environment, you'll lead the delivery of strategic business and technology change initiatives, working closely with senior stakeholders across regulatory, technology and operational resilience functions.
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 the initiatives for success, specifically developing the investment case, project plan, deliverables, and milestones to successfully deliver the business outcomes, identifying and sourcing resources to achieve time and cost expectations
- Validating assumptions and resolving dependencies, issues, and risks within delivery
- Ensure delivery adheres to the Change Delivery Framework, including Governance Framework
- Lead the project board meetings and produce the relevant materials, including portfolio reporting
- Own and manage project financials, including budget forecasting, cost tracking, financial reporting and management of delivery within approved funding envelopes.
- Produce high-quality PMO artefacts including governance packs, portfolio reports, milestone tracking, dependency mapping and benefits realisation plans.
- Establish and maintain effective project controls, including governance, RAID management, resource planning, schedule management, dependency tracking and delivery assurance.
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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 3rd parties in a matrix, from inception through to end of warranty / 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
- Demonstrable PMO experience within large-scale transformation, regulatory change or operational resilience programmes.
- 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 expectations of stakeholders
- Able to use influencing and negotiating techniques
- Strong PMO and project governance experience, including establishing delivery frameworks, reporting structures and assurance processes across complex programmes.
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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