Senior Project Manager - Regulatory​/Governance Readiness

Senior Project Manager - Regulatory / Governance Readiness

Employment Type: Full-time

Working Hours: Standard (09:00am-17:30pm)

Department: Business Change

Office or Field Based: Office Based (Cheadle, SK8 3GW
)

Contract type: Permanent

We’re Together. For over 50 years, we’ve helped thousands of people, businesses and professionals unlock their property ambitions with our common-sense approach to mortgages and secured loans. We’re looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead high-impact, strategic initiatives focused on regulatory change and governance readiness. You will be focusing on our new regulatory change portfolio and, with support from Leadership and the wider team, be a key voice in the setup and definition of the Portfolio.

Reporting to the Head of Delivery, you’ll play a pivotal role in ensuring business and technology projects meet regulatory and governance requirements as set by the FCA or other relevant governing bodies, whilst aligning with our enterprise risk strategy.

• Planning and Initiation
  • Develop a delivery plan that takes in all facets of the delivery, this may cut across multiple trains and teams and include activities from 3rd party suppliers and regulatory bodies.
  • Track and understand key dependencies and milestones.
  • Recognise capacity constraints and support prioritisation calls.
  • Identify resource requirements and secure resources to fulfil those requirements.
• Delivery Management
  • Ensure all resources are clear on their responsibilities and commitments.
  • Develop and maintain appropriate project artefacts, as defined by the Change Delivery Framework.
  • Attend key agile ceremonies at the team level, where appropriate, to share information and understand any issues.
  • Manage the go-live acceptance process and solicitation of approvals.
  • Plan, budget for and oversee the completion of activities to ensure the successful acceptance of IT change.
  • Estimate project spend in line with departmental methods; establish and agree baseline budgets.
  • Track project spend against baseline and report financials accurately and transparently.
  • Work with portfolio managers to forecast portfolio spend per annum.
• 3rd Party Management
  • Work with 3rd Party engagement from the outset.
  • Track 3rd party commercial commitments.
• People Management
  • Drive and manage performance through coaching, support and strategic goals.
  • Manage colleagues through the employee life cycle.

Please note: We can only consider candidates who can demonstrate having been a Senior Project Manager with significant exposure to change, governance and compliance.

• Experience as a Senior Project Manager with exposure to change, governance and compliance.
• Experience with both Waterfall and Agile methodologies and project delivery.
• Experience in financial services.
• Experience with regulatory change and the regulatory environment for financial services (or similarly regulated) companies.
• Experience with Azure Dev Ops.

If you feel you have some of the skills mentioned above, but not all, please still apply and we would be happy to discuss your suitability for the role.

• Senior PM role within a background of Business Change/ Tech Transformation
• 26 days holiday, plus a day off for your birthday (increasing with service to 30 days), plus bank holidays
• Free access to company holiday homes
• Buy & sell holidays
• Discretionary annual bonus plus an additional Shared Reward Bonus
• Life assurance and Critical illness cover
• Travel season ticket loans and Ride to work scheme
• Free local gym access
• Local bar / restaurant discounts

We’re Together. For over 50 years, we’ve helped thousands of people, businesses and professionals unlock their property ambitions with our common-sense approach to mortgages and secured loans. Based in Cheadle, Cheshire, our 900 colleagues help our customers throughout the UK, backed by the power of a £7.9 billion loan book.

Together embraces diversity and inclusion and is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We welcome difference and celebrate it, supporting colleagues for who they are. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills.

If you require any adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know when completing your application. This information will be handled to help you perform at your best.

Please note that all successful applicants will undergo relevant employment reference, financial and criminal record checks.