Project Assistant - Southampton, United Kingdom - Pure Human Resources

Pure Human Resources
Pure Human Resources
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Southampton, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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_Project Assistant_

_ Ocean village, Southampton_

_ Permanent, Full time_

_ Salary - £30-33K DOE_


Our client Forester Friendly Society is a long-established financial service company based in Southampton, Hampshire and have been providing their members with financial products for over 185 years.

They are a mutual society, therefore all their profits are distributed between members through policyholders' bonuses rather than going to shareholders.


Project Assistant, the role:

  • Serve as Society's Project Support function, assisting in the management of project delivery from inception to benefits realisation
  • Identify, gather, and analyse stakeholder requirements
  • Conduct GAP analysis
  • Assist and at times lead the modelling and analysis of 'asis' processes, propose, and where approved, assist or lead the implementation of 'tobe' processes
  • Develop and present project status reporting to stakeholders
  • Develop and maintain stakeholder analysis and personas
  • Assist and at times lead in the gathering and engineering of solution requirements
  • Produce and maintain project registers and logs, such as risk, issue, and quality registers
  • Assist and at times lead the production of project test approaches and test delivery
  • Assist and at times lead in the production of project reports, such as issue, lesson, sprint, and project closure reports
  • Undertake other reasonable duties at the request of the Change Manager and IT Manager

Project Assistant, the person:

  • Previous experience in a project support role
  • Gathering and engineering of solutions requirements, and the development and maintenance of Business Requirements Documents
  • Production and maintenance of project documentation, such as approaches, registers & logs, and plans is essential
  • Process modelling and design, ideally with at least an elementary understanding of BPMN, and tools such as Visio, Lucidchart, or
  • Microsoft SQL server and T-SQL knowledge and experience is desirable but not essential
  • A foundational understanding of Waterfall and Agile software delivery approaches is essential
  • Previous experience of working on Agile (ideally Scrum) or PRINCE2 projects is essential
  • Proficiency in, or awareness of Agile project tools such as Jira, Trello, or Azure Dev Ops Boards is preferred but not essential
  • Previous experience in a Financial Services or other regulated business is preferred but not essential

Project Assistant, the benefit:

  • Competitive salary and pension provided
  • 25 days Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays (rising to 27 days after 5 years and 29 days after 10 years) and the day off for your Birthday
  • Holiday purchase scheme buy up to 3 extra days per annum
  • Group Life Assurance 4 times your salary
  • Bonus based on individual performance up to 10% of your salary each year
  • Staff discounts
  • Employee Assistance Programme free, confidential advice line
  • Onsiteparking (Head office only)
  • Funded
  • Hybrid working is available where job role allows after completion of induction period; details to be discussed at the interview stage
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