Banking Project Manager
Posted 2 weeks ago by Square One Resources
£469 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
Knutsford, Cheshire, UK
Summary: The Banking Project Manager role involves leading the end-to-end delivery of a defined banking project, ensuring timely completion within scope and budget while managing stakeholders and resources. The position requires a focus on tactical project management, risk mitigation, and financial oversight. This is a contract position based in Knutsford, with a hybrid working arrangement. The role is classified as inside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage a single project with specific objectives, deadlines, and deliverables.
- Focus on day-to-day management of resources, schedules, and deliverables.
- Work within a defined timeframe with a set beginning and end for projects.
- Manage stakeholders related to the specific project, ensuring clear communication.
- Focus on risks and issues specific to the project and mitigate them.
- Manage resources to ensure the project team has necessary skills and tools.
- Oversee the budget of the project, ensuring completion within financial constraints.
- Measure success based on timely completion of project deliverables.
- Manage changes impacting the project, including scope and resource adjustments.
Key Skills:
- Experience in project management within the banking sector.
- Strong stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to manage risks and issues effectively.
- Financial management skills related to project budgets.
- Excellent communication and organizational skills.
- Proficiency in change management.
- Ability to work within defined project timelines.
- Experience in resource management.
- Strong focus on delivering projects within scope and budget.
Salary (Rate): £469 Per Day
City: Knutsford
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Detailed Description From Employer:
Job Title: Banking Project Manager
Location: Knutsford (3 days on-site, 2 days remote)
Salary/Rate: £469 Per Day - Inside IR35
Start Date: 27/10/2025
Job Type: Initial contract until 27/03/2026
Company Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our sector-leading consultancy clients! They are currently looking for a skilled project manager with experience in the banking sector.
Job Responsibilities/Objectives
You will be responsible for leading the end to end delivery of a defined banking project, ensuring it is completed on time, within scope, and on budget while managing stakeholders, resources, risks, and project-specific changes.
"Focused on delivering individual projects, ensuring completion within scope, time, and budget with a more immediate focus.
- Scope Management: Manages a single project with specific, defined objectives, deadlines, and deliverables. Their focus is on completing the project on time, within scope, and on budget.
- Strategic Focus: Operates more tactically, focusing on day-to-day management of resources, schedules, and deliverables for their individual project.
- Time Horizon: Works with a shorter, more defined timeframe as projects have a set beginning and end.
- Stakeholder Management: Primarily manages stakeholders related to their specific project, ensuring communication and expectations are clear for the project's deliverables.
- Risk and Issue Management: Focuses on risks and issues specific to their project and works to mitigate them within the project's scope.
- Resource Management: Manages resources for their individual project, ensuring that the project team has the necessary skills, tools, and time to complete the work.
- Financial Management: Focuses on managing the budget of their specific project, ensuring it is completed within the financial constraints.
- Metrics: Measures success based on the timely completion of project deliverables within scope, time, and budget.
- Change Management: Manages changes that directly impact their specific project, including scope changes, timelines, or resource allocation adjustments"
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.
Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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