Project Manager

We're Funding Circle; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company in the UK is seeking a detail-oriented Senior Project Manager to focus on FlexiPay and Credit Card products. In this role, you will lead key strategic projects that enhance product delivery for small and medium businesses. Ideal candidates should possess over 5 years of project management experience, a background in financial services, and exceptional communication skills. The company offers hybrid working, health benefits, and a flexible benefit allowance, supporting diverse needs and career growth.

Benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Flexible benefit allowance

Learning & Development allowance

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a project manager or senior project manager role.
• Experience in financial services or fintech is a strong plus.
• Ability to navigate and simplify complex scenarios.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects from conception through execution.
• Establish and maintain project governance and risk management.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement and enhance controls.

Skills

Project Management Experience

Proactive Ownership

Detail‑Oriented

Influential Communication

Data‑Driven Decision Making

Job description

We are looking for a commercially‑mindful and detail‑oriented Senior Project Manager to join our FlexiPay & Cards team. While your primary focus will be on our FlexiPay and Credit Card products, you will work with teams across the business to achieve key strategic delivery and change objectives and develop the risk and controls framework within our function. This is a key role where you will have the autonomy to lead projects, challenge the status quo and enhance current processes in order to directly shape and scale FlexiPay and Credit Cards into core products for Funding Circle, products that thousands of small and medium businesses rely on a daily basis to bridge their short‑term capital requirements.

Responsibilities

• Drive projects from conception through to execution: Advocating for our external customers as well as our internal customer‑facing teams, you will be expected to both lead on and provide support with discrete projects and initiatives designed to evolve our FlexiPay and Credit Card products.
• Champion best‑in‑class project governance and risk management: Demonstrating your experience of best practice project management and governance, you will build and maintain project plans, proactively manage and mitigate risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies (RAID management), and regularly report on project status to key stakeholders.
• Identify and action opportunities for process improvement: Working alongside the Head of Strategic Programs and multiple Product Managers, you will enhance our controls environment through a combination of influencing product roadmaps, ensuring adherence to existing controls and identifying opportunities for more robust processes and control frameworks.
• Serve as a subject‑matter expert to support our first‑line operational teams: You will build a robust knowledge of our FlexiPay and Cashback Credit Card products, serving as the go‑to point of contact for front‑line operational teams in order to assist with product‑specific queries and troubleshoot both ad‑hoc and systemic operational pain points and requests.

Qualifications

• Project Management Experience: 5+ years in a project manager or senior project manager role.
• Industry Background: Previous experience in the financial services or fintech industry, especially in areas like retail lending or the credit card industry, is a strong plus.
• Proactive Ownership: You enjoy taking on new challenges and leap at the chance to untangle complex scenarios and unexpected obstacles.
• Detail‑Oriented: You have a keen eye for detail and understand the importance of accurately communicating with customers in a regulated landscape.
• Influential Communication: Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills. You have experience holding peers and more senior stakeholders to account to ensure compliance to risk and governance frameworks.
• Energised by Ambiguity: You are comfortable with ambiguity and eager to shape your role alongside our evolving product suite and programme management function.
• Data‑Driven Decision Making: Champion the use of data to drive both product delivery and successful customer outcomes.

About Funding Circle

We’re Funding Circle. We back small businesses to succeed. With more than a decade of expertise under our belt, we’ve built a game‑changer platform with cutting‑edge data and technology that’s reshaping the SME lending landscape. Say goodbye to lengthy applications and hello to lightning‑fast decisions! In just minutes, SMEs across the UK can get a decision, giving them access to competitive funding in a flash. We know that good business is about good people. So we pride ourselves on providing meaningful, human support as well as fast, hassle‑free processes to deliver an unbeatable customer experience.

Our Impact

• We have a huge impact on the businesses that borrow through our platform, the communities they serve and the overall economy (last year £7.2bn of GDP generated). You can read our full Impact Report here: https://www.fundingcircle.com/uk/impact
• To see what our customers think, visit our Trustpilot page: https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/fundingcircle.com

Company Culture & Values

And we’re still evolving! Our award‑winning multi‑product platform is solving more SME finance challenges than ever before. We think big, rally together and meet the needs of SME customers like no other. Why join us? At Funding Circle, we celebrate and support the differences that make you, you. We’re proud to be an equal‑opportunity workplace and affirmative‑action employer. We truly believe that diversity makes us better. As a flexible‑first employer we offer hybrid working at Funding Circle, and we’ve long believed in a "best of both" approach to in‑office collaboration and non‑office days. We expect our teams to be in our London office three times a week, where you can take advantage of our newly refurbished hybrid working space, barista‑made coffee and subsidised lunches via JustEat every day! We back our Circlers to build their own incredible career, making a difference to small businesses every day.

Benefits

• Flexibility: We provide you with a benefit allowance so that you can tailor your benefit selection to you and your family’s needs.
• Health: Private Medical Insurance, Dental Insurance, Health Cash Plan, Health Assessments (including female fertility health assessments), eyecare vouchers, flu jabs, a Wellhub (discounted flexible gym membership and access to wellbeing apps) and a free Digital GP for yourself and any children under 16.
• Wealth: Life Assurance, Income Protection, Critical Illness Cover, financial coaching through Octopus Money Coach, a tax‑advantaged share scheme, a free mortgage advisor partnership and discounts across numerous retailers through Perks at Work.
• Development: Dedicated annual Learning & Development allowance and full access to internal learning platform.
• Lifestyle: Electric Car Scheme, Cycle to Work scheme, Season Ticket Loans, and more!
• Parental Leave: Award‑winning parental leave policies supporting parents through enhanced maternity, partner and adoption leave, as well as additional leave for parental bereavement and for fertility treatments.

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