Project Manager - Retail Banking - WEST Yorkshire - £360pd

PROJECT MANAGER - RETAIL BANKING - WEST YORKSHIRE - £360PD

A major financial services organisation is looking to recruit a Project Manager to work on a large business transformation project within wealth.

ROLE DESCRIPTION

Manages and controls the delivery of medium to large projects or workstreams within very large projects or programmes taking responsibility for delivering solutions which address business needs. Manages resources to ensure delivery to agreed business plans within cost, quality and timescale objectives, ensuring that the benefits identified in the business case can be realised.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

- Programme/Project Set Up and Closure: Feeds into business study/programme proposals and business cases, ensuring alignment with business strategy; agreement of project benefits; and how these will be measured and tracked post implementation.
- Works with the business area to ensure an effective approach to business implementation, handover, and acceptance of the change.
- Governance and Reporting: Works closely with the Programme Leads to provide regular status reporting appropriately to different stakeholders and to agreed CMT standards and recommend options for contingency plans.
- Project Delivery: Defines and implements a detailed delivery approach for each stage of the project life cycle, obtains acceptance and buy in to the approach from all team members, and produces and owns all project management deliverables, using established project methodologies, to the right level of quality.
- Planning and Finance: Produces and owns the project plan. Controls, manages and monitors project timescales and budgets, reporting variances, escalating as appropriate to overcome delays, difficulties or cost over-runs, and re-forecasting where necessary.
- Resource Management: Tracks resource requirements (including roles and responsibilities), budget and FTE profile for areas of responsibility.
- Stakeholder Management: Identifies key project stakeholders and develops an appropriate stakeholder communication plan.
- Engages with a diverse group of stakeholders to influence direction of projects to meet the project milestones. Typically up to and including Grade G level.
- People and Self Development: Where appropriate, manages, motivates, develops and coaches assigned team members to create a high performing team.
- Risk: Continuously monitors projects for risk issues and regulatory compliance and takes appropriate steps to mitigate.

DESIRED

- Wealth/investment background
- Experience launching products
- Client data/asset migration

LOCATION: Halifax

RATE: 360

START: ASAP

DURATION: 6 months

If you have the relevant skills please submit your CV. Please note that candidates with little or no recent or relevant retail banking experience will not be considered.

Izzy Brooman