Project Manager (Financial Services)

Foresters Financial; London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services provider in London is seeking a Project Manager on a 12 month contract. The role involves managing a blend of IT and business projects, ensuring timely delivery and quality. Candidates should have solid project management skills and experience in handling multiple projects. The position offers a competitive salary up to £50,000, 25 days leave, and is hybrid with at least 2 days required in-office.

Benefits

Basic salary up to £50,000

Annual holiday allowance of 25 days plus bank holidays

Generous contributory Pension scheme

Season Ticket Loan

1 day paid charitable workday

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Solid project management experience.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Experience in IT projects and business change.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage project delivery schedules and progress.
• Create and deliver status reports for stakeholders.
• Facilitate project progress meetings with teams.
• Identify, record, and track project risks and issues.
• Manage resource requirements and utilization across projects.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Microsoft Office Suite

Critical thinking

Communication

Organizational skills

Job description

Utilising your Project Management experience you will be joining our Business Solutions and IT Delivery team on a 12 month fixed term contract.

You will be responsible for helping to deliver our strategy, and managing projects to agreed schedules, costs, scope, and quality. Projects will be a mixture of IT and business change, and you will manage cross-project plans, dependencies, and resources.

You will work closely with the PMO & Delivery Manager, business function and workstream leads, to execute project, programme, and strategy delivery.

Your day to day will include:

• Leading and managing the project delivery schedule, monitoring project progress and ensuring timescales are met.

• Creating and delivering regular status reports for project stakeholders and Executive Committee.

• Scheduling and facilitating regular project progress meetings with stakeholders and project teams, providing guidance and support and resolving blockers.

• Co-ordinating, directing and motivating resources assigned to the project team.

• Identifying, recording and tracking risks, issues, actions, decisions and ensuring these have necessary focus and attention.

• Identifying cross-project dependencies and prioritising those with impact on other project timelines.

• Managing resource requirements and resource utilisation across projects, identifying bottlenecks and options to resolve.

• Tracking costs, benefits and KPIs in alignment with Foresters Strategy.

• Managing and controlling project change.

What we require

• Solid project management experience.

• Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, prioritising workloads and meeting deadlines.

• Strong stakeholder management skills.

• Experience working on both IT projects and business change.

• You must be highly self-motivated, well-organised, disciplined, and driven.

• Experience producing status reports, gathering and presenting project metrics.

• Innovative, open-mind, and able to look at projects holistically.

• Strong analysis and critical thinking skills, with a proven ability to cut through issues and solve problems.

• Proficiency in using the Microsoft Office Suite.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

• Resilience and ability to work well under pressure.

What we offer you

• Basic salary up to 50,000 per annum

• Annual holiday allowance of 25 days plus bank holidays

• Generous contributory Pension scheme

• Season Ticket Loan

• 1 days paid charitable workday

• Employee Assistance Programme

This is a hybrid working opportunity. 2 days minimum are required at our Head office in Bromley but flexibility is required. Working hours are 40 hours a week Monday to Friday. Start times can vary from 7.30am to 9.00am.

About us

Foresters Financial is not your typical financial services provider. Those who join our purpose-driven organisation enjoy a culture of collaboration, creativity, and mutual respect and are challenged to do their best to make a difference every day. We help everyday families achieve their financial goals and make a lasting difference in their lives and communities.

What we do

We help everyday families achieve their financial goals and make a lasting difference in their lives and communities. We will continue to do this by employing enthusiastic and talented Financial Advisers working across the country and equally talented people to be based at our Head Office in Bromley.