Snr Project Manager - Regulatory Change

Senior Project Manager – Regulatory Change

Job Description
We know that an inclusive environment makes us more accessible and ensures we attract, engage, promote and retain exceptional people. We welcome applications from all individuals regardless of age, gender/gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity/nationality, disability, or military service and welcome those who have taken career breaks. We will consider flexible working arrangements or home working arrangements for any of our roles and also offer work place accommodations to ensure you have what you need to effectively deliver in your role.

The Role:
We are recruiting a Senior Project Manager within the Regulatory Change portfolio. The role is to join the existing team of Project Managers to support the delivery of projects within the regulatory portfolio. The successful candidate will be a permanent member of the team and will therefore pick up a variety of regulatory focused initiatives as they arise over time, delivering to specific requirements and fixed regulatory deadlines.

The successful candidate will have experience of delivering regulatory projects within Asset Management and Insurance sector, will display strong Project Management skills and be easily able to transcend deliveries focused on Technology, Operations and Front Office. Being familiar with operating in a P&L function or target driven environment would be advantageous.

The individual should be a self–starter, with strong lateral thought, excellent analytical skills, curiosity and meticulous attention to detail to ensure accurate and high–quality output.

Key Responsibilities and Experience for this role:
Own the end to end delivery of medium to highly complex projects, identifying key business stakeholders; leading on defining business case, project objectives, scope, resources and agreed set of expected benefits and outcomes
In conjunction with the Project Sponsor, communicate the outcomes/benefits of the project across the organisation to garner support and buy–in
Create and maintain high quality project plans (with built in risk mitigation strategies) and work packages that support delivery, ensuring that responsibilities are assigned to project resources
Evaluate delivery options and the team's performance, providing feedback where necessary and adjusting plans at regular intervals against the scope, schedule, budget, risks, outcomes and benefits
Provide regular forecasts of the future Change and BAU resources required for the project
Provide the project team with direction and confidence to deliver and ensure that the project delivers the required benefits and outcomes within the specified tolerances of time, cost, quality, scope, benefit and risk
Undertake regular lessons learnt sessions during the life of the project, implementing agreed recommendations to ensure the project team learns from experience and proactively shares lessons with the broader Project Management community
Adhere to governance standards, including Project Change Standard and guidelines, maintaining accurate RACI and RAID logs and Service Now records
Produce timely management information ensuring all mandatory documentation (e.g. business case, requirement documents/user stories, stage gates, test plans, change requests, closure documents) is completed and signed off at the appropriate stages during the life of the project and establish additional governance to reflect the complexity of the project as required
Forecast future external costs, understand the drivers of project cost variance and take actions to control costs to budgets or raise change control
Monitor and report progress to the impacted stakeholders (e.g. sponsor(s), programme manager, Change Programme Directors, steering committee) including ongoing business case viability
Independently identify and take ownership of issues, risks and dependencies, making recommendations to mitigate the risk or to reduce/remove issues. Escalate where appropriate to maintain progress towards project delivery and act as an escalation point on behalf of the Project Sponsor
Complete handover to BAU, and business benefits realisation activities to close off projects
Manage resource planning and motivate the project team to ensure a high standard of output, focused on customer satisfaction and delivery through developing others through providing ongoing guidance, mentoring or coaching
Manage relationships with required teams e.g. Technology, external suppliers and other business functions to achieve timely delivery
Assist the Programme Manager/Director and Change Programme Director with interviewing and hiring of resources
Support the Lead Programme Management Officer in establishing appropriate governance and assuring that the Project Change Standard is appropriately applied
Conduct training workshops with Project Managers focused on improving both project and change management capabilities across the Project Management team
Participate in improving the change capability across the firm through sharing project and change management disciplines with the wider business
Mentor and coach project team members with the aim of improving delivery efficacy and supporting their personal development