Project Manager - Digital Transformation - Banking

London, United Kingdom; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency seeks a Project Manager for digital transformation in the banking sector. This pivotal role focuses on delivering technology-enabled change to enhance customer experience and operational efficiency. The successful candidate will collaborate across departments to ensure project success in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years' experience in project roles, especially in financial services.
• Certification in project methodology (Prince2/PMP, APM, Agile) is a plus.
• Strong knowledge of banking business and operations.

Responsibilities

• Plan and manage digital transformation projects from initiation to delivery.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define project scope and goals.
• Manage key suppliers and their contracts effectively.

Skills

Project management principles

Stakeholder engagement

Business value creation

Change management

Operational efficiency

Education

Degree educated preferred

Job description

Project Manager - Digital Transformation - Banking

Rothstein Recruitment London, United Kingdom Apply now Posted 3 days ago Hybrid Job Contract Excellent

Project Manager - Digital Transformation - Banking

Rothstein Recruitment London, United Kingdom Apply now

Excellent opportunity opens for a a highly motivated Project Manager to lead a digital transformation project. This role will drive technology-enabled change, improve operational efficiency, and enhance customer experience by overseeing the implementation of modern digital solutions. You will work cross-functionally with IT, operations, compliance, and business units to ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and on budget.

Key responsibilities and accountabilities

• Plan and manage digital transformation projects, from initiation through execution and delivery.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across departments to define project scope, goals, and deliverables.
• Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, budgets, risk, dependencies, assessments, change requests and resource allocations.
• Maintain regular project reporting across the full stakeholder group.
• Chair project steering committees and technical project meetings.
• Set clear project plan goals and objectives, defining roles and producing schedules and timelines for tasks.
• Drive and support business case development with Key stakeholders.
• Coordinate change management activities to ensure smooth adoption of new processes and tools by staff and customers.
• Manage conflicting priorities and project activities within stakeholder group, taking the lead on decision making where required to ensure adherence to the project plan.
• Manage key suppliers, including contracts and negotiations.

Qualification & Experience

• Degree educated preferred
• Minimum 3 years overall experience with a substantial percentage of experience obtained within financial services
• Previous experience in a project role in the Banking industry is essential and certification in project methodology Prince2 / PMP, APM, Agile, Lean, Six Sigma etc. would be an advantage
• Minimum 3 years of delivery experience with strong business value creation skills
• Knowledge of banking business / products / operations and IT system development life cycle.
• Must have experience implementing or delivering change to payment and loan services
• Experience working across business and IT
• Experience of managing delivery from multiple third parties
• Experience of leading projects with minimal support and supervision.
• Experience in financial service operations,
• Experience working across business and IT
• End-to-end delivery experience
• Experience of leading projects with minimal support and supervision.
• Strong knowledge of project management principles and practices.
• Ability to work effectively on multiple, concurrent, or competing projects.
• Highly competent in using planning tools and experienced in implementing and operating financial control frameworks.

Interested? Please Apply!

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