Project Manager

Company: CFA Institute
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Location: Greater London
Job Description:

Contract inside IR35, 3 days in office in London.

Duration: 12 months.

Daily rate up to £900 inside IR35.

Job Summary

Primary Responsibilities

  • Assists the business with defining the scope and milestones of projects to ensure timely delivery.
  • Project Planning & Execution: Define project scope, objectives, and deliverables in collaboration with stakeholders.
  • Develop detailed project plans, schedules, and budgets, ensuring timelines and quality standards are met.
  • Manage project resources, risks, and dependencies effectively.
  • Team Leadership: Lead cross-functional teams, including technology teams and corporate functions.
  • Provide clear direction and resolve conflicts to keep the project on track.
  • Foster collaboration and accountability among team members.
  • Ensures ongoing global project communication via status update and decision meetings during each phase of the project.
  • Prepares project reporting for senior management regarding the status of project, scope changes, delivery issues.
  • Assists the project team in developing any required workflows and associated documentation around new processes developed in the project.
  • Ensure that all projects are delivered on time, within scope and within budget.
  • Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders.

Qualifications and Experience

  • Three/ Four-year college/university degree in accounting, finance or related business field.
  • 4+ years of project management experience including the management of large-scale projects.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • PMP Certification (preferred not essential) or other industry qualification.
  • Experience managing a range of technology projects.
  • Exceptional organizational and time management skills.
  • Deep Experience of Agile methodologies, i.e., Scrum, Kanban.
  • Strong organizational and time management skills.
  • Experience with Microsoft products and industry standard delivery tools: Office (Clarity, Project Management tools like Smartsheet, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Azure Dev Ops).

Additional Desired Qualifications

  • CFA, CAIA , CPA, or other financial services designation preferred.
  • Previous experience within a program management or consulting organization.
  • PMP/Prince 2 or Agile certification preferred.
  • Experience with Microsoft AzDo Boards.

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Posted: March 24th, 2026