Junior Project Manager

KPMG UK; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy firm in the UK is seeking a Project Manager to oversee software implementation projects. The ideal candidate will manage project timelines, budgets, and resources while ensuring high-quality deliverables. Candidates should have strong skills in Microsoft Office, experience with Agile methodologies, and a track record of delivering complex projects. This role offers the opportunity to work on high-impact projects across various sectors, maintaining strong client relationships and ensuring project goals are achieved.

Qualifications

• Established Project Manager with a proven track record in software implementation.
• Experience managing third-party sub-contractors.
• Ability to deliver projects exceeding 750 man-days.

Responsibilities

• Plan and manage assigned projects effectively within timelines and budgets.
• Monitor project progress and maintain the project dashboard.
• Ensure quality management standards are adhered to in all project activities.

Skills

Project Management

Microsoft Office (Project, Excel, SharePoint)

Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)

Interpersonal skills

Time management

Education

Prince2 Practitioner / certified APM professional

Tools

Microsoft Project

Jira

VSTS

TFS

Job description

Job details

Location: Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Manchester, Reading

Capability: Advisory

Experience Level: Associate/Assistant Manager

Type: Full Time

Service Line: Technology & Data

Contract type: Permanent

Job Description

At KPMG Microsoft Business Solution we implement best-in-class solutions for ERP and CRM. We have extensive knowledge and expertise in all areas, enabling us to provide our clients with an integrated end‑to‑end solution. Our solutions are based on the Microsoft Dynamics range of products, which enables us to deliver powerful, adaptable Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems. These systems are strategic IT solutions that integrate all the management information across an entire organisation into one intuitive software application. They embrace all departments of a company from finance, manufacturing, customer relationship management, HR and sales, in one single system.

The Role

The Project Manager runs projects of any size in an efficient and effective manner, ensuring delivery within agreed timescales, budgets and conformance to agreed requirements. This person is also responsible for the efficient utilisation of assigned staff, any associated third parties and for ensuring that all project activities conform to the company’s quality management standards and processes.

• Plans and manages assigned projects, keeping customer and senior management informed about progress.
• Compiles and agrees the project plan and any Statements of Work with the client.
• Monitors progress against project plan and budget, correcting and/or escalating abnormal situations.
• Maintains the project plan with forecast completion dates and impact analysis.
• Tracks actual costs versus plan (using Microsoft Project and internal Dynamics AX time recording system).
• Maintains awareness of ongoing non‑trivial problems towards their solution and ensures that project objectives are met.
• Monitors and controls all individuals allocated to the project, ensuring activities are carried out in accordance with appropriate standards and KPMG methodology.
• Manages any third parties involved as sub‑contractors, ensuring deliverables are produced on time, to required quality standards and in line with agreed commercials; refers as needed to the Program Manager for escalations.
• Ensures risks and issues are correctly assessed and reported, proactively predicting and mitigating risk.
• Maintains Decision and Action logs from key project governance meetings.
• Maintains the change log and applies effective change control.
• Applies configuration management principles to manage the overall project document library.
• Maintains and publishes the project dashboard, providing critical data such as backlog stats, burndown graph, risk and issue stats, defect and completion stats, task completion stats and change log stats.
• Prepares weekly reports for review by the Program Manager before distribution to the client.
• Participates in client reporting sessions, including weekly progress review meetings.
• Tracks actual vs. budgeted costs and effort on a weekly basis.
• Plans and monitors validation activities with the customer to ensure all requirements are met.
• Plans and monitors internal verification activities, including reviews, walkthroughs, and testing, and oversees the correction of non‑conformities to ensure quality of all deliverables.
• Plans and monitors release and implementation activities; works closely with the Solution Architect to ensure overall quality of deliverables prior to release.
• Receives, analyses and coordinates the implementation of project/system live changes requested by the customer when applicable.
• Addresses all project customer satisfaction issues, escalating feedback as necessary.
• Participates in resource management, utilisation and capacity planning processes; liaises with the Resource Manager and other Project Managers for optimum utilisation of resources.
• Contributes to continuous refinement and improvement of the best‑practice project delivery methodology and shares lessons learned.
• Tracks any sub‑contracts and work orders with the finance function; liaises with the purchasing department to raise purchase orders for approved work orders.

The Person

• An established Project Manager with a proven track record of delivering software implementation projects, full lifecycle implementation experience required.
• Experience managing third‑party sub‑contractors, ideally including independent software vendors (ISVs).
• Successful delivery of projects exceeding 750 man‑days in service delivery effort.
• Experience managing teams of more than 10 staff.
• Very strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly with Microsoft Project, Excel and SharePoint.
• Prince2 Practitioner / certified APM professional preferred.
• Experienced in Agile project management, with direct experience and knowledge of tools such as Jira, VSTS, TFS, and methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban.
• Ideally experience and specialism in ERP and/or CRM implementation projects, preferably utilizing the Microsoft stack.
• Excellent time‑management skills, working under pressure to tight deadlines and managing a high workload with conflicting priorities.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to influence and manage relationships in a complex environment.
• Strong communication skills (verbal, written, listening); able to present information concisely to all levels.
• Capable of producing high‑quality, professional presentations.
• Excellent attention to detail, ensuring documents are consistent in language, terminology and style.
• Flexible approach to work, focusing on delivery to deadlines and high standards; able to handle highly confidential information with tact and discretion.