Senior Project Manager - Regulatory​/Governance Readiness

Job Description

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead high-impact, strategic initiatives. 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 e.g. the FCA or other relevant governing bodies, whilst aligning with our enterprise risk strategy.

In this pivotal role, you’ll unite internal and external teams to deliver measurable outcomes, champion operational readiness, and keep complex programmes on track. You’ll engage confidently with executive stakeholders, manage risks, budgets, and third-party relationships, and drive projects from conception to implementation. As a senior voice within the Delivery Management team, you’ll also mentor colleagues, and foster collaboration.

• Planning and Initiation:
  Develop a delivery plan spanning multiple trains/teams, including activities from third-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 understand their responsibilities and commitments.
• Develop and maintain project artefacts as defined by the Change Delivery Framework.
• Attend key agile ceremonies at the team level, where appropriate, to share information and understand issues.
• Manage the go-live acceptance process and obtain necessary approvals.
• Plan, budget for, and oversee activities to ensure successful IT change acceptance.

• Financial Management:
  Estimate project spend, establish baseline budgets, track spend against baseline, and report financials.
• Forecast portfolio spend per annum in collaboration with portfolio managers.

• 3rd Party Management:
  Engage with 3rd party suppliers from the outset and track commercial commitments.

• People Management:
  Drive performance through coaching and support; manage staff through the employment lifecycle.

Essentials

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

Candidates who have the following skills and experience will be highly regarded:

• Experience with both Waterfall and Agile methodologies and project delivery.
• Experience of financial services.
• Experience with regulatory change and the regulatory environment for financial services (or similarly regulated) organisations.
• Experience with Azure Dev Ops.

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

Together embraces diversity and inclusion, and is an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills.

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