Job Title: Project Manager - Finance and Trust - Strong Governance
Location: Watford - Onsite 3 days a week
Salary/Rate: Up to £750 per day INSIDE IR35
Start Date: 27/02/23
Job Type: 10 Month Contract

Company Introduction

We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our leading gaming clients! They are currently looking for an experienced Project Manager with a background working for a blue chip consultancy in the Fund Management (Trust) / Finance / Governance experience space to join their team for a ten-month contract.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

You will work with the Finance and Trust Functional Leads, their Partner's Technical Specialists and the Outgoing Licensee's SMEs to ensure the delivery of each project element.
In coordination with the Transition PMO, they will decide on the appropriate methodology for their project and work with our Functional Leads to ensure prioritisation of work and that the project deliverables meet the business needs.

You will resolve problems, flag escalations for resolution, monitor velocity (for Agile projects) and run project and stand-up meetings, provide progress reports including milestones, budget, risks and issues.

You will ensure a seamless handover into operations.

Key Measures of Success:

1. Timely mobilisation of the delivery project team ensuring adoption of the agreed methodology (agile, waterfall or hybrid).
2. Timely creation, maintenance, and weekly update of all artefacts as defined by the requirements of the project management methodology (project delivery plans, RAID logs, and status reports).
3. A 'no surprise's' delivery. All issues and escalations to be escalated to the PMO in a timely manner prior to submission of written status / progress updates.
4. Projects reporting RED, AMBER, GREEN status codes are backed by clear reasons and actions plans where appropriate.
5. Status reports to show actual and trend against agreed time, cost, and quality measures.
6. All completed project deliverables and artefacts are saved and stored on the PMO Infrastructure in line with project methodology standards.
7. High standard of project leadership as measured by 360 degree feedback from the project team, team lead time, project transparency / communication and local resolution of blockers / issues.
8. Effective project level governance to include daily progress monitoring, weekly status reporting and post-delivery retrospectives / learning.

Required Skills/Experience

1. Long term professional project management experience.
2. Experience of working on complex technology transformation projects.
3. Experience of Projects for Finance Functions in Gambling/Technology Companies ideal.
4. MS Project
5. Experience of working in multi-workstream Programmes
6. Strong blue-chip consultancy background

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.

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