Project Manager

Project Manager

I am recruiting on behalf of my financial services client based in Epsom, Surrey who are looking to recruit a Project Manager.

As an Project Manager you will be working within a team of 5 delivering IT related projects and will have good commercial experience within financial services / regulated environments.

This role will be a hybrid role with working in the offices in Epsom and working from home.

As a Project Manager you will receive the following benefits:

• 24 and goes up to 28 over 4 years.
• BUPA Medical Health Insurance
• Competitive Pension
• Life Assurance
• Study Support
• Income Protection
• Performance related pay

Project Manager Responsibilities:

• Managing the successful delivery of projects
• Ownership of an allocated project with full responsibility for delivering to the parameters outlined in the Project Brief
• Supporting the Senior Project Manager in the creation and refinement of project processes and templates
• Responsible for controlled escalations to senior management both internally and externally when appropriate
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects effectively
• 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 including dependencies, resourcing, controls and milestones
• 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 revenue, 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

Project Manager Key Skills & Experience:

• 5 years + Project Management experience
• Previous experience working in a regulated environment
• Experience of both waterfall and an agile project methodologies
• Excellent communication skills both internally and externally
• 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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