Senior Project Manager

Close Brothers Group; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK financial services firm is seeking a Senior Project Manager to oversee project lifecycles, ensuring timely and on-budget delivery. The role requires strong leadership, stakeholder management, and proficiency in both traditional and agile project management methods. Ideal candidates will have relevant qualifications and experience in financial or regulated environments. Flexible working options available.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Continuous training opportunities

Inclusive workplace culture

Qualifications

• Active experience leading business and/or technical project deliveries in financial services or similar regulated environments.
• Ability to build long-lasting relationships with both internal and external customers.
• Experience managing a project's budget, monitoring expenditures and costs.

Responsibilities

• Manage the definition and completion of medium-scale projects.
• Provide leadership to the project team and manage change control processes.
• Recruit, train, and mentor high-caliber employees.

Skills

Project Management

Stakeholder Management

Agile Methodologies

Risk Management

Education

Project Management (PRINCE 2 or Other) Qualifications

Agile Delivery Qualifications

Job description

OVERALL SUMMARY At Close Brothers we look to recruit individuals from all different backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you don't tick every box. We celebrate diversity, promote inclusivity and are open to discuss flexible work options to help you balance your work and home life. Join the Close Brothers Project Management Team where you will execute, and deliver all projects on time, in budget, and within scope in accordance with business priorities. Throughout the lifecycle of each project, the Senior Project Manager tracks the project status, and manages project teams to mitigate issues and risks. The successful candidate will be a practitioner of the Project Management and Business Change Community of Practice and contributes to the continuous improvement of the Skills and Capabilities of the function.

Responsibilities

• Takes full responsibility for the definition, approach, facilitation and satisfactory completion of medium-scale projects.
• Provides effective leadership to the project team. Adopts appropriate project management methods and tools. Manages the change control process and assesses and manages risks. Ensures that realistic project plans are maintained and delivers regular and accurate communication to stakeholders.
• Ensures project and product quality reviews occur on schedule and according to procedure. Ensures that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale and resource budgets, and are formally accepted, by appropriate stakeholders.

Organisational facilitation (SFIA Level 5)

• Facilitates workgroups to deliver defined goals and outcomes.
• Provides support, guidance and suggestions to workgroups and teams to learn collaborative problem solving and improve their team performance. Creates shared responsibilities and sustainable agreements with the team.
• Implements and improves agreed team principles, practices, processes & ceremonies.

Stakeholder relationship management (SFIA Level 5)

• Identifies the communications and relationship needs of stakeholder groups. Translates communications/stakeholder engagement strategies into specific activities and deliverables.
• Facilitates open communication and discussion between stakeholders.

People

• Recruit, train and employ high calibre employees within budget, headcount levels and temporary resource requirements.
• Coach, mentor, and develop staff, including overseeing new employee onboarding and providing career development planning and opportunities.
• Provide oversight and direction to employees in accordance with the firm's policies, procedures, standards and SLAs.
• Hold regular one-to-ones with direct reports ensuring that feedback is provided in a constructive way whilst working with the employee to facilitate personal development.
• Ensure that an effective performance review is operated in line with department guidelines, including setting objectives, personal development planning and performance standards with all direct reports.
• Developing Our People: as a line manager, you will be responsible for inspiring and motivating your team, as well as developing performance through coaching. You will encourage your team to take responsibility for their own personal development and provide support through regular feedback.

We would love to hear from you if you have/can

• Managed a Project's budget on behalf of the Programme Manager/Portfolio Manager/Head of Change, monitoring the expenditures and costs against delivered and realised benefits
• Build good long-lasting relationships with both internal and external customers, ability to handle challenge & conflict.
• Identify, manages and monitors key risks making sure appropriate checks and balances are used
• Plan and organise teams to ensure delivery is achieved
• Collaborate openly with others, bringing an open and straightforward approach. Able to articulate clearly and present to others
• Apply knowledge to ensure solutions are fit for purpose and feasible
• Approach problem solving systematically and objectively.
• Have a Project Management (PRINCE 2 or Other) Qualifications
• Active experience leading a number of business and/or technical project deliveries in financial services or other similar regulated environment.
• Experience of both traditional and agile methods
• Agile Delivery Qualifications

About us

We are an inclusive organisation and committed to ensuring our recruitment process is as accessible as possible to everyone. We will make adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition. If you need the job description or application form in an alternative format or would like to discuss the recruitment process with us, please email us at or request a call back.

For roles offering hybrid working: At Close Brothers we support employees to balance their work life priorities and in this role you will be able to enjoy a mixture of hybrid working. Close Brothers is a leading UK merchant banking group providing lending, deposit taking and securities trading. We employ approximately 3,000 people, principally in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Close Brothers Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250.

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At Close Brothers Group, we are all connected by our mission to be the best place in the UK for wealth professionals and their clients. We believe that everyone should think ahead, have a financial plan and invest wisely. Our clients are professionals, business owners, individuals, charities, families, and employers, who rely on our clear financial advice and investment management services to preserve and grow their long-term savings and investments. We are a team of about 900 people based in 15 offices across the UK. Our geographic footprint means we can combine a local approach with face-to-face services to enable strong, long-term relationships with our clients. Sustainability is fundamental to our purpose and we have a responsibility to help address the social, economic and environmental challenges facing our business, colleagues and clients. We strive to do the right thing and are dedicated to helping the charities that matter most to our people. We look to recruit individuals from all different backgrounds. If this job is of interest to you but you do not meet every criteria then we encourage you still to apply as we are open to providing training opportunities. As an early adopter of hybrid working we are open to discussing all types of flexible working options, helping you to balance your work and home life. Close Brothers Group