Lead multiple complex business change projects within financial services, managing budgets exceeding £1 million, cross-functional teams, risks, stakeholders, conflicts, third parties, and project reporting. The role requires delivering projects in uncertain environments while applying Agile, Scrum, and other methodologies. Candidates should understand banking products, competitors, regulatory frameworks, and project constraints, and hold PRINCE2 Practitioner or another relevant professional qualification.
Job Description
Lead Project Manager
London
Our client, a leading and significantly growing FS business, is seeking an ambitious business led, lead Project Manager to join their Change team.
Essential skills and experience
- 5 years+ project management experience with at least 2 of those years spent within the Financial services
- Detailed knowledge of a variety of project methodologies, planning processes and techniques
- Significant experience of monitoring and reporting in a project environment
- Experience of managing multiple projects at least 6 months in length with £1m+ budgets
- Experience delivering medium cross-functional business change projects
- Experience of resolving conflicts within project environments
- Experience of delivering on complex, diverse, ambiguous and high value projects
- Complex stakeholder management
- Detailed knowledge of project constraints and complexity
- Detailed knowledge of risk management principles and their impacts on projects
- Management of teams of a minimum of 5 people
- Successful third party management
- Effective operating within uncertain and changeable environments
- Personally managing 2+ projects of the above characteristics
- Knowledge and experience of Agile and ideally Scrum
- Knowledge of the banking market, products and competitors
- Knowledge of banking regulatory and legislatory frameworks
- Certified Prince2 Practitioner or other relevant professional qualification
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