Change Manager – Fintech

Executive Headhunters; City Of London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Fintech Payments Group based in London is seeking a Change Manager to build and execute project delivery for critical products. The successful candidate will have a strong background in fintech, excellent project management skills, and a proven ability to manage stakeholder relationships. This is an exciting opportunity to join a rapidly growing team with a focus on health and wellbeing benefits.

Benefits

Health and Wellbeing ethos

Family friendly enhanced benefits/policies

Qualifications

• Experience in financial services, banking, or fintech.
• Proven success in delivering business change in high growth environments.
• Excellent collaboration, negotiation, and presentation skills.
• Proven stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical users.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a project plan to track delivery.
• Identify communication needs of stakeholders.
• Manage project financial records and ensure service delivery.
• Lead and coach multiple project teams.
• Manage project financial records and delivery risks.
• Ensure best practices in service delivery.

Skills

Project management techniques

Fintech experience

Stakeholder management

Collaboration skills

Negotiation skills

Agile frameworks knowledge

Agile frameworks experience

Job description

Location: London
Salary: £65k basic plus excellent commission, bonus + benefits
Job Type/Hours: Full time

Our client has an exciting opportunity for aChange Manager to join their rapidly growing London-based team.

Change Manager – The Company:

Our client is a leading Fintech Payments Group that bring together technology and financial services into an omnichannel solution.

Change Manager – The Role:

Our client are looking for an experienced Change Manager to build and execute a project delivery structure for critical products and processes. This role partners business, technology, and wider company project teams to ensure that the proposed solutions are delivered in a timely fashion and in line with the company’s strategic objectives. Being at the front line of our project delivery strategy, you will ideally come from a similar, fast paced business, financial services, banking, or fintech background.

• Setting projects up for success by building and maintaining a project plan to track delivery against agreed milestones as well as managing delivery risk
• Identifying the communications and relationship needs of stakeholder groups.
• Translate communications / stakeholder engagement strategies into specific activities and deliverables and ensures implementation thereof
• Effectively estimate costs, timescales, and resource requirements for the successful delivery of the project(s) to agreed terms of reference and business benefits
• Build, leads, and coaches multiple project teams throughout project lifecycles
• Keep project financial records up to date, ensuring appropriate levels of contingency are being held for the unknowns
• Work collaboratively across the business to ensure projects deliver the outcomes defined in each business case
• Define and drive best practice and consistent delivery of service
• Provide leadership during development by identifying any incremental opportunities
• Actively manage projects, manage resources to define and execute against plans
• Actively manage Quality, Financials, Dependencies, Key Risks, and Issues
• Deliver smooth service implementation through development of relationships, operational enablement, and testing phases.
• Liaison with all operational delivery organisations in developing the service
• Manage relationships with key business stakeholders, leadership, and service partners
• Align leadership (e.g., sponsors, senior and middle leadership) on key messaging and communication approach across all departments

Change Manager – You:

• Excellent understanding of project management techniques and ability to tailor your delivery style using the most appropriate methodology for the project
• Experience in fintech, payments and banking
• Proven success in delivering business change in a high growth environment, working with both Business and in-house/external IT teams.
• Proven stakeholder management skills with the ability to handle conflict
• Excellent collaboration, negotiation, and presentation skills
• An ability to navigate the organisation, and effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical users at all levels of an organisation
• Experience with Agile frameworks (SCRUM, Kanban is a plus)
• Opportunity to be part of a market leading Fintech business
• Health and Wellbeing ethos
• Family friendly enhanced benefits/policies

To submit your CV for this excitingChange Manager opportunity, please click ‘Apply’ now!

N.B. Due to high levels of interest, we are unable to respond to every individual applicant