Lead Project Manager

London

Our client, a leading and significantly growing FS business, is seeking an ambitious business led, lead Project Manager to join their Change team.

Essential skills and experience

• 5 years+ project management experience with at least 2 of those years spent within the Financial services
• Detailed knowledge of a variety of project methodologies, planning processes and techniques
• Significant experience of monitoring and reporting in a project environment
• Experience of managing multiple projects at least 6 months in length with £1m+ budgets
• Experience delivering medium cross-functional business change projects
• Experience of resolving conflicts within project environments
• Experience of delivering on complex, diverse, ambiguous and high value projects
• Complex stakeholder management
• Detailed knowledge of project constraints and complexity
• Detailed knowledge of risk management principles and their impacts on projects
• Management of teams of a minimum of 5 people
• Successful third party management
• Effective operating within uncertain and changeable environments
• Personally managing 2+ projects of the above characteristics
• Knowledge and experience of Agile and ideally Scrum
• Knowledge of the banking market, products and competitors
• Knowledge of banking regulatory and legislatory frameworks
• Certified Prince2 Practitioner or other relevant professional qualification