Location: Newcastle
Working Pattern: Hybrid (3-days in the office required)
Role Description
As a Project Manager you will be responsible for the end to end management of projects to contracted time, quality, and budget requirements. This will involve leadership of a distributed project team in multiple locations, and the proactive identification, management and resolution of risks and issues throughout the full project lifecycle.
The role requires a background in technology with experience in leading large projects ideally within the financial services industry.
As a Project Manager at FNZ you will be involved in the delivery of a combination of large scale projects and a collection of multiple smaller projects. This is a heavy client facing role and requires the ability to build strong relationships with customers.
*UK only* As this role is caught by the Certification Regime, the role holder must adhere to the FCA’s Conduct Rules and the FCA’s Fitness and Propriety Requirements
Specific Role Responsibilities
Delivery Management
- Manage the delivery of the project through the full project lifecycle, from initiation through to implementation.
- Ensure the project delivers in-line with the FNZ Software Delivery Lifecycle (SDLC) and associated quality controls are met. Tracking that these are actively followed and managed on each project.
- Create and maintain an end to end project plan that delivers the agreed scope of the project to time, budget and quality criteria.
- Ensure all build scope is understood through approved designs and specifications in accordance with the SDLC, collaborate with delivery to create a build and test plan that delivers against project milestones.
- Be actively involved in the delivery of each project by coordinating the day to day running of the project to ensure it achieves its expected milestones.
- Have strong relationships and take accountability for working with all FNZ Directorates/areas to agree scope, timelines and artefacts in order to ensure delivery of the project in line with overall agreed plan.
- Take accountability for the overall estimating process for a project, and work collaboratively with the Solution Consultant, Delivery Manager, and the Test Manager to estimate the work effort required to deliver the project scope within the agreed timescales and budgets.
- Maintain accurate project status and project financial reporting for the entire project team.
- Provide timely, precise, accurate and comprehensive project MI both internally and externally to FNZ customers.
- Understand the FNZ products and technology so you are able to identify and manage risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies through the full project lifecycle.
- Build mitigation plans for all risks and issues, and take ownership for ensuring these mitigation plans are executed, or escalated as is appropriate.
- Understand the commercial environment FNZ operates within and be able to identify any changes which might impact FNZ commercially in advance to the Client Director.
- Have strong relationships with 3rd party suppliers and ensure they are engaged appropriately and contracts are in place and managed to ensure the required outcomes for FNZ.
- Manage all operational readiness activities associated to the project, as required, ensuring that the appropriate training and handovers take place ahead of go-live.
- Undertake post implementation reviews and ensure that lessons learned are captured and shared with the rest of the PM community
Team Leadership
- Lead and motivate a virtual team in multiple locations, communicating project progress, and ensuring all team members take accountability for delivery.
- Motivate, mentor and encourage project team members to utilise themselves to their full potential and take accountability for their assigned work.
- Create a culture of continuous improvement on the project, support process improvement initiatives, and identify new process improvements.
- Swiftly resolve any conflicts within the project team and/or related stakeholders both within and out with FNZ.
Experience Required
Required Knowledge and Skills
- A minimum of 4 years’ experience in leading the delivery of large projects, preferably but not essential software implementations within Financial Services
- Prior experience managing 3rd party suppliers
- Experience of managing stakeholders to executive levels
- Confident, and able to take initiative given client and delivery focused environment
- Commercially aware
- Excellent organisational, administration and time management skills
- Good team communication skills, confident in dealing with internal and external clients
- Highly developed written and oral communication skills
- Superior analytical thinking and problem solving.
Desirable
- Honours degree, masters or MBA
- Certification(s) such as Prince 2.
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