Compliance and Financial Crime Project Manager
Our client, a leading global supplier for IT services, requires an experienced Compliance and Financial Crime Project Manager to be based in their client’s office in London, UK.
This is a fully onsite role.
This is a 6+ month temporary contract, to start asap.
Day rate: Competitive Market rate.
Role Description:
- The successful candidate will be part of the Compliance and Financial Crime Portfolio Change function, reporting into the Portfolio Lead and its corresponding delegate on a regular basis
- Among other Project Management tasks, the candidate will be responsible for the creation and maintenance of RAID logs, Business Justification documents, and Status reporting activities
- When required, the candidate must be able to facilitate technical analysis and translate facts and figures to allow for streamlined decision making by non subject matter experts
- The right candidate will work closely, from front to back, with Functional Subject Matter Expert (SME) leads or Account Executives (AEs) in support of delivering against planned initiatives, the definition and running of fact finding and decision-making meetings, Working Groups, and Steering Committees to achieve tangible outcomes required to deliver against business objectives
Key Responsibilities:
- Delivering complex change projects from design through to build, deployment and handover to the business
- Managing the full project lifecycle adhering to management standard governance and best practice from project initiation to closure
- Working closely with relevant business and key stakeholders to ensure effective and efficient implementation of project(s)
- Creating and maintaining project plans and revising as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements
- Run and manage steering committees, working groups (cross functional) and ensure accountability of actions against planned timelines
- Be a trusted partner functional stakeholders and Planning department ensuring updates, issues and consensus is effectively managed and delivered
- Manage implementation deliveries ensuring transparency of risks, issues and dependencies that are fully aligned to functional / business owners
- Produce management information surrounding project health and delivery of progress
- Manage the project costs against budget and report status update on the project budget
- Planning, managing and escalating risks/ issues in a timely fashion to determine priorities and feed strategy
- Identifying resource demand and assign responsibilities
- Working closely with technology and business product owners in order to design and deliver a fit for purpose solution
Key Requirements:
- Experience in either Compliance or Financial Crime is a must to ensure quick understanding of content and anticipating risks or issues
- The candidate will need to have extensive experience in Investment Banking, with strong Compliance or FinCrime experience
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills are a must, and candidate must have a well organised structured approach to managing medium to large projects and work with senior stakeholders, subject matter experts and consultants
- Experience in successfully leading full lifecycle complex projects
- Minimum 5 years proven track record delivering projects to financial institutions within time and budget
- Degree level (min)
- Programme/ Project management or Financial markets led accreditation (beneficial)
- Advanced experience of MS Project and or other PM tools (Planview)
- Microsoft Office skills (specifically PowerPoint, Visio, Excel & Word)
- Strong governance approach to delivery
- Effective communication and leadership skills
- Full understanding of the project lifecycle
- Strong project delivery and deadline management
- Experienced user of project management tools
- Proven experience of managing budgets
- Demonstrable track record of managing multiple stakeholders and building relationships across diverse skillsets and across the international organisation
- Direct experience in managing multiple functional stakeholder (senior level) and consultants to derive clear and tangible outcomes
- Experience with identifying project outputs and tracking Business benefits
- Result & Delivery driven, with a strong sense of accountability
- A proactive, motivated approach
- Conflict management ensuring collaborative outcomes
- Strong decision-making skills, the ability to demonstrate sound judgement
- A structured and logical approach to work
- The ability to manage large workloads and tight deadlines
- Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
- A calm approach, with the ability to perform well in a pressurised environment
- Strong numerical skills
Special working conditions
- You may have to work on some weekends
Due to the volume of applications received, unfortunately we cannot respond to everyone.
If you do not hear back from us within 7 days of sending your application, please assume that you have not been successful on this occasion.
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