Banking – Delivery Manager

Location:
London City (Hybrid – 3 days per week in office)

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Duration:
12-month contract

Rate:
Up to £600/day (Outside IR35)

We’re looking for an experienced Banking Delivery Manager to lead the delivery of complex change initiatives across business and internal technology within a regulated banking environment. This role blends structured delivery governance, strong stakeholder management, and hands‑on coordination across multiple work streams.

• Own and drive the end‑to‑end delivery of business and technology change initiatives within a banking environment.
• Develop and maintain delivery plans, roadmaps, milestones, and dependency management across multiple concurrent work streams.
• Provide strong delivery governance, ensuring progress, risks, issues, and dependencies are actively managed and escalated where required.
• Manage delivery financials, including budgets, forecasts, and actuals.
• Act as the primary point of contact for senior business stakeholders and internal technology teams, ensuring alignment and clarity throughout delivery.
• Coordinate business and technical readiness activities to ensure successful implementation and adoption of change.
• Operate within an Agile delivery environment, balancing pace with appropriate controls and governance.
• Support release and delivery planning, maintaining accurate updates in tools such as Azure Dev Ops and Jira.
• Ensure delivery considers systems, people, and process impacts, with customer and colleague outcomes front of mind.
• Systems & Technology Exposure:

• Proven experience delivering change involving internal banking technology platforms.
• Exposure to CRM systems, ideally Microsoft Dynamics 365 delivery, is highly desirable.
• Comfortable coordinating delivery across applications, data, integrations, and business process change.

• Essential banking experience delivering change in a regulated banking environment.
• Strong experience as a Delivery Manager, leading complex, multi-workstream initiatives.
• Proven ability to manage delivery planning, governance, and financial control.
• Excellent senior stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience operating in an Agile and/or Waterfall delivery environment.
• A pragmatic, outcomes-focused mindset with confidence to challenge and drive delivery.
• A recognised delivery or project management qualification (PRINCE2, APM, etc.).