Project Manager

Edinburgh Project Change Manager -up to £250 - per day.

Urgent requirement for an experienced Business Change Project Manager to join a leading financial service organisation in Edinburgh.

Experience required:

Programme/Project Set Up and Closure: Agrees a clearly defined delivery approach for own area of responsibility.
Governance and Reporting: Reports progress and status to the appropriate stakeholders on a timely basis, including identification and escalation of key risks and issues.
Project Delivery: Follows the appropriate elements of the project delivery life cycle for own area of responsibility, including contributing to/completing formal reviews at appropriate points.
Implements appropriate project support processes to manage issues, identify and mitigate risks, monitor dependencies and record assumptions, and ensure that the right level of quality is achieved in all deliverables.
Planning: Produces a project or work stream plan defining the deliverable milestones, tasks and activities; understands the project critical path and how own area of responsibility impacts this; monitors progress against project/work stream plan, identifies slippage and supports activity to recover.
Resource Management and Finance: Provides support to the control and management of project budgets and resource costs, reporting variances and escalating as appropriate to overcome delays, difficulties or cost over-runs.
Stakeholder Management: Identifies key project or work stream stakeholders for their area of responsibility and contributes to the appropriate stakeholder communication plan. Ensures sign off for all accountable deliverables.
Risk: Timely and accurate completion of own project deliverables, assessing and managing risks and identifying counter measures.

Proven track record in:

All aspects of delivery through the full life cycle Project life cycle experience of completing relevant project documentation from business case through to post implementation reviews
Excellent stakeholder management skills
Solid experience of Risk, Compliance & Regulatory Management
Ability to create and maintain plans - excellent Microsoft Project skills required
Fully conversant with Microsoft Powerpoint and Excel spreadsheets
Excellent attention to detail with quality outputs
Communicates effectively and works collaboratively as a team

If successful you will be joining a dynamic and hard working team that works together to get the job done. For more information, please apply online or send your CV direct to (see below)