Project Manager – London Bridge
We have an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager, based in our London Bridge Office.
The Project Manager will be responsible for managing projects, both for internal and external clients, in accordance with the JHC project management methodology. They will work with other senior stakeholders to ensure projects are completed within agreed constraints of time, cost and quality, and that projects are correctly incepted, well administered, and risk and change are well managed throughout the lifetime of the project.
Duties & responsibilities of the role include:
- Work with other senior stakeholders to ensure that the assigned project is completed within agreed constraints of time, cost and quality both internally and to external clients.
- Effectively manage scope from inception to close down, enforcing strict control of requirements and Change Management.
- Negotiate available resource on projects with relevant team leaders and Programme Manager(s) or other Project Manager(s).
- Work with technical experts to distribute work effectively between the project team.
- Create and manage project plans (schedule, dependencies, budget, risks/issues). Responsible for presenting and justifying these plans to the Programme Manager or Client Manager for approval and baselining.
- Capture and report project progress and financial data to the Programme Manager, project team, the Client, the JHC Project Review Board (PRB) and other relevant stakeholders.
- Work with Release management teams both internal and external to JHC to create a migration release calendar that the project plan and deliverables align to.
- Work with client and JHC Testing staff to optimize testing.
- Work within the governance processes required for a given project with regular reporting of status to various bodies, inc. Steering Committees as appropriate.
- Track and control project milestones and external deliverables promised to the Client.
- Identify and manage risk and critical path activities in the various Project Plans, and facilitate the project team’s involvement in this.
- Ensure all relevant processes are followed on projects. This includes the correct methods for re-planning and escalation if projects go off plan.
- Hold project team meetings; define agenda, produce and distribute all relevant project documentation (including the project risk log, issues log, commercials, decisions log, meeting minutes and actions.)
- Also responsible for post implementation reviews and ‘lessons-learnt’ processing, including documentation.
- Ensure all project deliverables, including documents such as test plans, and specifications, are of the correct quality, reviewed and signed off according to procedure.
- Administer the allocation of jobs and budgets, and track and report project costs.
- Engage with stakeholders to ensure that everything is running in accordance with their requirements.
- Responsible for ensuring that software development projects leave the core product complete and that the software provided is supportable for the future.
- Be the active point of contact for the Client on assigned projects.
- Hand over work properly when taking holidays or unable to work on the project currently assigned.
- Other ad-hoc duties.
We are looking for an experienced, commercially-minded Project Manager, who has a good understanding of management and development methodologies, and industry best practice. Candidates should have a strong understanding of risk/ issue management and able to proactively de-risk. They must be able to work efficiently under pressure and to tight deadlines, have strong facilitation and analytical skills, with an eye for detail. In addition they must have excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate concisely with all levels of an organization. They should be fully competent on Microsoft Project, Excel & other Microsoft Office programs, and ideally be Prince 2, MPM and/or ITIL certified. Experience in financial sector software project delivery would be a definite advantage.
Basic Salary of up to £40K p.a. plus bonus* dependent on qualifications and experience based on a 35 hour working week. Other benefits include Private Healthcare Scheme, Healthcare Cash Plan, Stakeholder Pension Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme, Childcare Voucher Scheme, Monthly Entertainment Allowance. 25 days holiday per year plus bank and public holidays.
*Eligible to join bonus scheme after successful completion of probationary period.
If you possess all of the above requirements and are looking for a challenging new role in the FINANCIAL SERVICES industry in a prime London location, please apply with your CV including a covering letter stating your salary aspirations and quoting job reference PMW/0312 to: recruitment@jhc.co.uk
Applicants must be eligible to work in the specified location.
No agencies or previous applicants.
