Project Manager - Digital Transformation - Banking
Posted 4 days ago by Rothstein Recruitment
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: This role seeks a highly motivated Project Manager to lead a digital transformation initiative within the banking sector. The position involves driving technology-enabled change to enhance operational efficiency and customer experience by implementing modern digital solutions. The Project Manager will collaborate with various departments to ensure timely and budget-compliant project delivery. Key responsibilities include planning, managing, and reporting on digital transformation projects while coordinating change management activities.
Key Responsibilities:
- Plan and manage digital transformation projects, from initiation through execution and delivery.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across departments to define project scope, goals, and deliverables.
- Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, budgets, risk assessments, change requests, and resource allocations.
- Maintain regular project reporting across the full stakeholder group.
- Chair project steering committees and technical project meetings.
- Set clear project plan goals and objectives, defining roles and producing schedules and timelines for tasks.
- Drive and support business case development with key stakeholders.
- Coordinate change management activities to ensure smooth adoption of new processes and tools by staff and customers.
- Manage conflicting priorities and project activities within the stakeholder group, taking the lead on decision making where required.
- Manage key suppliers, including contracts and negotiations.
Key Skills:
- Degree educated preferred.
- Minimum 3 years overall experience with a substantial percentage of experience in financial services.
- Previous experience in a project role in the Banking industry is essential.
- Certification in project methodology (Prince2 / PMP, APM, Agile, Lean, Six Sigma) would be an advantage.
- Minimum 3 years of delivery experience with strong business value creation skills.
- Knowledge of banking business/products/operations and IT system development life cycle.
- Experience implementing or delivering change to payment and loan services.
- Experience working across business and IT.
- Experience managing delivery from multiple third parties.
- Strong knowledge of project management principles and practices.
- Ability to work effectively on multiple, concurrent, or competing projects.
- Highly competent in using planning tools and experienced in implementing and operating financial control frameworks.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London Area
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Project Manager - Digital Transformation - Banking
Excellent opportunity opens for a a highly motivated Project Manager to lead a digital transformation project . This role will drive technology-enabled change, improve operational efficiency, and enhance customer experience by overseeing the implementation of modern digital solutions. You will work cross-functionally with IT, operations, compliance, and business units to ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and on budget.
Key responsibilities and accountabilities
- Plan and manage digital transformation projects, from initiation through execution and delivery.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across departments to define project scope, goals, and deliverables.
- Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, budgets, risk, dependencies, assessments, change requests and resource allocations.
- Maintain regular project reporting across the full stakeholder group.
- Chair project steering committees and technical project meetings.
- Set clear project plan goals and objectives, defining roles and producing schedules and timelines for tasks.
- Drive and support business case development with Key stakeholders.
- Coordinate change management activities to ensure smooth adoption of new processes and tools by staff and customers.
- Manage conflicting priorities and project activities within stakeholder group, taking the lead on decision making where required to ensure adherence to the project plan.
- Manage key suppliers, including contracts and negotiations.
Qualification & Experience
- Degree educated preferred
- Minimum 3 years overall experience with a substantial percentage of experience obtained within financial services
- Previous experience in a project role in the Banking industry is essential and certification in project methodology Prince2 / PMP, APM, Agile, Lean, Six Sigma etc. would be an advantage
- Minimum 3 years of delivery experience with strong business value creation skills
- Knowledge of banking business / products / operations and IT system development life cycle.
- Must have experience implementing or delivering change to payment and loan services
- Experience working across business and IT
- Experience of managing delivery from multiple third parties
- Experience of leading projects with minimal support and supervision.
- Experience in financial service operations, Experience working across business and IT
- End-to-end delivery experience
- Experience of leading projects with minimal support and supervision.
- Strong knowledge of project management principles and practices.
- Ability to work effectively on multiple, concurrent, or competing projects.
- Highly competent in using planning tools and experienced in implementing and operating financial control frameworks.
Interested? Please Apply!
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