Description
We are Global IT Recruitment specialist that provides support to the clients across UK, Europe and Australia. We have an excellent job opportunity for you.
Role: Project Manager(Cards, Payments and banking experience is required)
Location: Knutsford
Duration: until end of June
Job description:
Project Manager
Managing all projects and programmes being delivered across the Core Platforms.
To define and own the content and direction of change projects in order to support the high performance continuous delivery of change projects.
Key Accountability:
- Create & maintain plan (from Product Owner roadmap) and Kanban management.
- Cards, Payments and banking experience is required.
- Folks with product owner experience is an added advantage.
- Establish & drive delivery disciplines, cadence & standards for the feature team.
- Own the issues/blockers status & resolution, and same for identifying/managing risks facing the feature team (may be reliant on support from others to mitigate).
- Own the delivery status report out and accuracy of the facts.
- Vendor relationship management - running RFP's and contract management.
- Control financial & resource forecasts & actuals to budget.
- Overall responsibility for delivering the product to time, cost & quality; drives the team to ensure velocity is maintained/changes managed in line with expectations.
- Ensure wider organisation is engaged & aligned to feature team needs, including timely/preemptive governance, approvals, dispensations.
Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:
- Effectively provide change management and project management expertise to change projects to which the Project Manager is assigned.
- Experience of Agile delivery methodologies and practical experience of managing sprint-based deliveries.
- Possess expertise in change management methods and tools, in particular the Change Management method and toolkit.
- Understand roles, responsibilities, and value-add of client Change Management.
- Influencing/networking - developing internal/external business relationships using knowledge/skills/experience to influence others' opinions/actions.
- Analysis, creativity, innovation - able to apply practical solutions to business critical problems.
- Understand at a high level interface between complex business needs/legal/regulatory environment where business operates.
- Ability to juggle priorities; multi-task; flawlessly execute at speed.
-Sound commercial judgment; overall understanding of Financial Services Industry; particularly impact of regulatory environment on business operations.
-Understand/compliance with requirements of Strategic Change Execution Board Standard Group Change Governance framework Group-mandated Business Change methods standards tools