Project Manager (Financial Services)

Utilising your Project Management experience you will be joining our Business Solutions and IT Delivery team on a 12 month fixed term contract.

You will be responsible for helping to deliver our strategy, and managing projects to agreed schedules, costs, scope, and quality. Projects will be a mixture of IT and business change, and you will manage cross-project plans, dependencies, and resources.

You will work closely with the PMO & Delivery Manager, business function and workstream leads, to execute project, programme, and strategy delivery.

Your day to day will include:

• Leading and managing the project delivery schedule, monitoring project progress and ensuring timescales are met.
• Creating and delivering regular status reports for project stakeholders and Executive Committee.
• Scheduling and facilitating regular project progress meetings with stakeholders and project teams, providing guidance and support and resolving blockers.
• Co-ordinating, directing and motivating resources assigned to the project team.
• Identifying, recording and tracking risks, issues, actions, decisions and ensuring these have necessary focus and attention.
• Identifying cross-project dependencies and prioritising those with impact on other project timelines.
• Managing resource requirements and resource utilisation across projects, identifying bottlenecks and options to resolve.
• Tracking costs, benefits and KPIs in alignment with Foresters Strategy.
• Managing and controlling project change.

What we require

• Solid project management experience.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, prioritising workloads and meeting deadlines.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working on both IT projects and business change.
• You must be highly self-motivated, well-organised, disciplined, and driven.
• Experience producing status reports, gathering and presenting project metrics.
• Innovative, open-mind, and able to look at projects holistically.
• Strong analysis and critical thinking skills, with a proven ability to cut through issues and solve problems.
• Proficiency in using the Microsoft Office Suite.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Resilience and ability to work well under pressure.

What we offer you

• Basic salary up to £50,000 per annum
• Annual holiday allowance of 25 days plus bank holidays
• Generous contributory Pension scheme
• Season Ticket Loan
• 1 days paid charitable workday
• Employee Assistance Programme

This is a hybrid working opportunity. 2 days minimum are required at our Head office in Bromley but flexibility is required. Working hours are 40 hours a week Monday to Friday. Start times can vary from 7.30am to 9.00am.