Portfolio Manager - Financial Services

Your new company

You will be working with a Financial Services end client, supporting a portfolio of exit-related projects in a heavily governed environment.

Your new role

As Portfolio Manager, you will oversee and support a number of Project Managers delivering exit-related projects.

These will cover areas including decommissioning, data extraction, data mapping, data cleansing and TUPE.

The role requires strong ownership and coordination across multiple teams and suppliers, alongside effective governance, commercial management and executive-level reporting.

Key responsibilities

• Support and coordinate Project Managers delivering a portfolio of exit-related projects.
• Oversee activities covering decommissioning, data extraction, mapping and cleansing.
• Coordinate internal SMEs, customer teams, third-party suppliers, architects, security teams and data owners.
• Own RAID management, decision logs and action tracking.
• Deliver clear executive reporting.
• Manage budgets and maintain strong commercial oversight.
• Manage audit evidence within a heavily governed programme environment.
• Support data management and issue resolution across the portfolio.
• Provide oversight of data activities including source-to-target mapping, profiling, reconciliation, validation and data quality assessments.

Essential skills and experience

• Portfolio management experience within heavily governed programmes.
• Previous exit or transition experience in a data-focused environment.
• Experience of banking or Financial Services data initiatives.
• Strong experience of data extraction and data management.
• Understanding of: Source-to-target mapping
• Data profiling
• Reconciliation
• Data validation
• Data quality assessments
• Experience coordinating internal SMEs, customer teams, third-party suppliers, architects, security teams and data owners.
• Demonstrable ownership of RAID management, decision logs and action tracking.
• Strong executive reporting capability.
• Strong contractual and commercial acumen.
• Budget management experience.
• Experience managing audit evidence.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.

What you'll get in return

Rate: £626 per day

Contract: 6 months

Working arrangement: Remote

IR35: Inside IR35

The opportunity to support a portfolio of data-focused exit projects within Financial Services.