Project Manager - Ipswich, United Kingdom - Pursuit Resources Group
Description
Project Manager - Financial Services (contract)
Salary:
Up to £90k
Location:
Ipswich / Hybrid
About this vacancy:
The Change team supports change across the business, providing tools and resources to support the
daily operation and strategic deliveries of the business.
The jobholder will require to undertake the management of projects, typically (but not exclusively)
involving the development and implementation of business processes to meet identified business
needs, acquiring and utilising the necessary resources and skills, within agreed parameters of cost,
timescales and quality.
Main duties:
- Takes end to end responsibility for the delivery of projects establishing and maintaining the
appropriate the delivery of the target operating model.
- Leads project planning, scheduling, controlling and reporting activities for projects, ensuring
that comprehensive project, quality, and risk plans are prepared and maintained and issues are actively managed through to their successful resolution.
- Implement effective communication plans appropriate to the audience situation and the desired outcome in order to manage the smooth delivery of the project.
- Manage third party relationships ensuring that dependencies are identified and managed and deliverables are achieved, as defined in the project's plan and without incurring unnecessary cost or delay to the project.
- Maintains effective financial controls and project progress forecasting, and reports as appropriate.
- Ensures that a change control procedure is in place, and actively used to assess the effect of
- Identify, secure and manage project resources to achieve project objectives in line with the
- Demonstrate compliance with agreed methodology, standards, policies and procedures to
- Ensures that projects are formally closed, that lessons learned are captured and that benefits realisation planning has been initiated.
- Ensure that appropriate prioritising, planning, resourcing and contingency for customer issues are integrated into project and resource plans so they are central to delivery and aligned to the Company's Customer Experience and Treating Customers FairlyPolicy.
About You
Qualifications
- 5 GCSE's (or equivalent) at grades A-C (or equivalent) to include English and Maths (essential)
- PRINCE2 practitioner qualification is essential
- Additional qualifications such as MSP, ITIL, M_o_R and MoP, etc are useful but not essential.
- Proven project management experience over 5 years
Knowledge
- Knowledge of project management methodologies, in particular PRINCE2 practitioner (or equivalent)
- Indepth knowledge of process improvement and change management tools and methodologies
- An awareness of regulatory and legislative influences
- Financial services experience preferable
- An awareness of market practice including trends, new developments and issues of the day
Skills and Experience
- Competent in use of the MS Office suite of tools, including Visio and MS Project
- Proficient in principles, methods, techniques and tools for the effective management of projects from initiation through to implementation
Example:
PRINCE, MSP, MoP.
- Making decisions at the appropriate time, taking into account the needs of the situation, priorities, constraints and the availability of necessary information.
- Understanding the hierarchy and culture of own, customer and supplier organisations and being able to identify the decision makers and influencers in order to successfully implement target operating model.
- Proficient in principles, methods, techniques and tools for the preparation and monitoring of
- Proficient in methods and techniques for creating and delivering effective training to support the implementation.
- Familiar with methods and techniques for selection and managing contracts to ensure that third parties adhere to agreed contract requirements.
Treating customers fairly
- Consider the needs of the particular target markets for products and tailor the service proposition to meet those needs effectively
- Ensure customers are provided with relevant information at appropriate times throughout the life of products to enable them to manage their reasonable expectations regarding the potential future benefits available
- Ensure customers have sufficient information to enable them to understand when advice may be required and, where appropriate, ensure customers have access to suitably qualified advisers
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