IT Project Manager - Financial Services

My client within financial services based in the Surrey area are recruiting for an IT Project Manager.

This is a hybrid role with 1 or 2 days in the office in the Surrey area.

As an IT Project Manager you will be responsible for managing the successful delivery of projects across IT.

IT Project Manager Benefits:

• 24 days and increases each year with a total of 28 days + BH

• Medical Health Insurance

• Up to 16% pension contributed

• Life Assurance

• Professional Study Support

IT Project Manager Responsibilities:

• Management of Value Stream and multiple projects and initiatives within it

• Working with Brokers and third-parties as a working group to get input and feedback

• Encouraging, and coaching business on agile ways of working

• Engaging with the business and IT to ensure the effective running of cross-functional team

• Supporting the Senior Project Manager in the refinement of project processes and templates

• Responsible for planning and resourcing the project including building and leading a team of resources with the right capabilities to meet the project deliverables

• Responsible for creating and maintaining a detailed project plan

• Ensuring the project is delivered to the agreed quality standards to minimise rework cost and achieve defined project timescales.

• Management of the Client and key stakeholders in terms of expectations, agreed scope, timescales, project costs, project invoicing, project resource management

• Reporting on project status, project costs & project invoicing

• Management of project risks, change requests and issues throughout the project life cycle

• Management of Relationships & resources with other internal departments such as Business Analysts, Finance, Marketing, Legal and Support/Infrastructure

• For appropriately sized projects working closely with the Director of Business Change ensuring that they are updated on project status, risks and issues

• Ensuring smooth transition to service for every project

IT Project Manager Essential Skills:

• 5 years + Project Management experience

• Experience of use both agile and waterfall delivery techniques and knowing what to apply when

• Experience of use agile tools e.g., DevOps, Jira, Confluence

• Previous experience working in a regulated environment

• Scrum Alliance Scrum master qualification

• Prince 2 Practitioner

• BSc in Computer Science/IT or similar

• Excellent communication skills

• Strong stakeholder management skills

• Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent projects

• Leadership of multiple, multi-disciplined teams delivering technical solutions across a variety of platforms

• Seen by clients and prospects as having a can-do delivery focus

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