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Your new company
You'll be joining a leading organisation within the financial services sector, supporting the delivery of key business and technology initiatives within a complex and highly regulated environment. Working as part of a large programme team, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring successful project delivery across multiple work streams while engaging with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders.

Your new role
As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for managing the end-to-end delivery of projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards. You will create and maintain high-level and detailed project plans using MS Project, manage project finances, oversee RAID activities, and provide regular project reporting to stakeholders.

Key responsibilities include:

• Creating and maintaining Plan on a Page (PoAP) and detailed project plans.
• Managing project scope, budget, resources, timelines, and deliverables.
• Owning and maintaining RAID logs, ensuring appropriate mitigation and escalation.
• Managing project financials, including forecasting, budget tracking, and reporting.
• Coordinating project governance, quality gates, lessons learned, and change control processes.
• Producing regular progress reports and stakeholder communications.
• Managing third-party suppliers and ensuring delivery against agreed outcomes.
• Supporting procurement activities, purchase orders, and goods receipt processes.
• Coordinating deployment activities, go-live events, and Early Life Support (ELS).
• Conducting impact assessments and producing cost estimates and delivery plans for change requests.
• Working across multiple projects simultaneously within a programme environment.
  
  What you'll need to succeed

          To be successful in this role, you'll have:

• Proven experience delivering IT or business change projects within complex environments.
• Strong project planning skills with hands-on experience using MS Project.
• Demonstrable experience managing RAID, project governance, risks, issues, dependencies, and change control processes.
• Experience managing project budgets, forecasting, financial reporting, and resource planning.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage at all levels.
• Experience managing third-party suppliers and external delivery partners.
• Strong project reporting and delivery assurance experience.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent project deliveries.
• Knowledge of testing phases including SIT, UAT, NFT, OAT, or similar methodologies.
• Experience working within financial services or other highly regulated environments would be advantageous.
• Exposure to both application and infrastructure change projects is desirable.
  
  What you'll get in return
• Competitive daily rate.
• Fully remote working arrangement.
• Immediate start opportunity.
• Exposure to a high-profile programme within a regulated environment.
• Opportunity to work with experienced project and programme professionals.
• Valuable experience delivering complex transformation and technology initiatives.
• Initial 5-month contract with potential extension opportunities.
  
  

What you need to do now 
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