Project Manager, Project & Program Management, IT Project Manager

Forvis Mazars is a leading global professional services network providing audit & assurance, tax, and advisory services. Forvis Mazars in the UK spans 14 offices across the nation and has over 3,400 professionals, with 190 partners. We have a clear purpose and a shared commitment to shape a better future.

You’ll join a collaborative and inclusive team where you're supported to grow your skills, explore new opportunities, and contribute from day one.

You'll work with a diverse client base, develop meaningful connections, and gain experience that extends beyond your local team. Together, we grow
, belong and impact
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The Project Manager is responsible for the day-to-day management of projects to highly governed standard and has significant knowledge evidential experience of;

• Scope and schedule independent development and end to end ownership
• Risk and Issue independent development and end to end ownership
• Exemplary skills in customer and stakeholder engagement
• Finance, Resource, and cost control management
• Successful delivery and handover to realise benefits
• Ability to align to a Prince2 governance framework; inclusive of a standard completion of templates that aligns to this framework
• Experience in delivery of technology projects is required.

The Project Manager needs to be confident dealing with a wide variety of stakeholders and needs to be capable to adapt their style to each situation to reach the desired outcome. Experience of facilitating workshops and meetings is required for this role. The post-holder will have the significant knowledge and experience to build and manage meaningful and supportive relationships across the firm to deliver successful projects.

• Clearly and thoroughly identify the scope of the project(s) by working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders, at all levels within the organisation.
• Define and clearly document this and communicate clearly to all portfolio resources an understanding of the scope as well as how it will affect other projects within the portfolio. This scope should have clear benefits capture so there is a definitive value proposition in the project.
• Represent the project to the appropriate approval authority for sign off to proceed.

• Facilitating cross-functional planning workshops or information capture involving stakeholders, delivery resources and third parties as appropriate to create a valid and accurate plan.
• This will be in enough detail to ensure integration of all activities, dependencies, and understanding of critical paths and key milestones.
• Ensuring thorough understanding of the plan, key milestones and delivery dates, resources, and deliverables including a comprehensive budget.
• Identification of any risks, constraints and threats that may impact the ability of the project to deliver to the required time, cost, and quality parameters.
• Ensure communications such as emails, articles, site awareness visits are planned, drafted, and delivered in line with the communications plan.
• Strong experience of resource management planning and management throughout programme.

• Day-to-day management and reporting of the project (s) time, cost, and quality activities, in line with the project framework.
• Thorough risk and issue management across the project(s), instigate mitigation actions, identify contingency plans, and manage items through to conclusion.
• Ensure effective communication to the project teams, internal and external stakeholders, partners, suppliers, and customers.
• Manage proposed changes to project parameters – e.g., scope, budget, schedules as well as quality of project deliverables and ensure project objectives are met.
• Regularly updated programme…