Financial Project Manager

We currently require the services of a Project Manager to work for a well respected financial client on a 6 month contract

Project Manager
6 Months
London
Inside IR35
2/3 Days a week on site

Key Responsibilities

• Project initiation including deployment of appropriate governance (aligned to Bank PMO policy)
• Ensure project plans are developed and agreed by all key stakeholders
• Ensure that assigned projects are managed in line with both Central and Business Unit PMO policies and methodology (including appropriate documentation)
• Comply with the prescribed change management policy
• Effectively plan and manage assigned projects, ensuring delivery within agreed budget and timescales through all stages of the project lifecycle
• Plan and co-ordinate the engagement of all project resources including business resources and vendor/external resources
• Proactively lead project resources to ensure that they are working efficiently and achieving the objectives set for them
• Ensure that risks and issues are identified, reported, owned and managed through to resolution
• Schedule the project, allocate tasks and direct Analysts and project staff as appropriate to delivery projects to time, cost and quality
• Ensure status reports are submitted to PMO weekly and accurately reflect project progress
• Work closely with the PMO to ensure that cross project and programme interdependencies are identified and managed
• Develop and deliver robust stakeholder engagement plans
• Establish and maintain strong relationships and clear lines of communication with all stakeholders and project participants
• Ensure all programme communications are timely, relevant and appropriate to the audience
• Organise and attend project status meetings, ensure that meeting attendees are issued with reading materials in advance
• Potential for line management responsibilities

Skills and Experience Required (please include examples within your CV)

• Significant experience of project delivery and working within large transformational programme delivery, preferably in the Financial Sector
• Experience of running Credit Risk projects
• Proven understanding of Credit Risk processes
• Experience of traditional waterfall delivery in a structured change environment
• Must demonstrate experience of having worked across the full lifecycle of a major programme delivery
• Agile (SCRUM) knowledge is desirable
• Building effective senior stakeholder relationships to executive project sponsor level
• Excellent analytical and facilitation skills to ensure business needs and effective solutions can be clearly and rapidly understood and delivered
• Ability to develop and deliver required actions from strategy
• Influencing skills and commercial awareness
• Proven team building and leadership capabilities within a matrix environment
• Proven experience of project delivery involving vendor / external resources

Education and Qualifications

• Must hold a relevant and recognised Project or Programme Management qualification (ideally, PRINCE2, MSP or PMP) or equivalent
• PMI certification or equivalent preferred

IRB experience would be preferred.

If this role is of interest, please forward me your most up to date CV

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