Vice President Project Management - Reslilience

JR United Kingdom; Slough; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services organization in Slough seeks a Vice President of Project Management. This position involves strategic oversight and delivery of critical projects, ensuring that operational and technology resilience initiatives are met. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in managing teams and stakeholders, along with a strong track record in successful project delivery in highly regulated environments.

Benefits

25 holiday days and 3 life days in addition to bank holidays

Generous parental leave policies

Wellbeing and mental health support resources

Hybrid working to promote work/life balance

Generous non-contributory pension provision

Private medical insurance and dental coverage

Access to learning platforms with 1000+ courses

Qualifications

• Significant experience in managing projects within operational or technology resilience.
• Hands-on experience delivering complex change programs.
• Excellent communication skills with technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for delivery of projects across Operational and Technology resilience.
• Manage day-to-day operational aspects of a project, scope, and budget.
• Develop and maintain strong stakeholder relationships.

Skills

Project Management

Stakeholder Management

Risk Management

Leadership

Communication

Education

Formal training in Project Management (MSP/PRINCE2/PMI/APM/SIX SIGMA)

Tools

MS Project

PlanView

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Client:

CLS Group

Location:

slough, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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Posted:

31.05.2025

Expiry Date:

15.07.2025

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Job Description:

About CLS:

CLS is the trusted party at the centre of the global FX ecosystem. Utilized by thousands of counterparties, CLS makes FX safer, smoother and more cost effective. Trillions of dollars’ worth of currency flows through our systems each day.

The Vice President, Project Management will be:

• Responsible for delivery of a suite of Projects across Operational and Technology resilience.
• Responsible for developing, in conjunction with the Sponsor / Project Owner, a definition of the project(s) and ensures the project(s) is effectively resourced and manages the relationships with a wide range of groups (including all project contributors).
• Responsible for managing the work of consultants, allocating and utilizing resources in an efficient manner and maintaining a co-operative, motivated and successful team.
• Responsible and accountable for the delivery of several projects , whilst supporting the Portfolio Manager with timely information, escalations and portfolio wide issues.
• Responsible for detailed project reporting and strict governance adherence
• . Responsible for demonstrating that stated benefits have been realized once the project has been delivered.

Essential Function / major duties and responsibilities of the job

Strategic

• Defines plans through a rigorous and highly interactive process of defining business requirements, project specifications, managing resources and environments.
• Agrees and formalizes plans, conducts or co-ordinates required business analysis where necessary.
• Relationship management; develop and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, both internal and external.
• Presents plans and business cases and gains their sign off from sponsors and other stakeholders.
• Ensures the benefits are measurable and agreed by all stakeholders
• Follows the Project Framework adhering to all required governance.
• Keeps a tight control on projects costs and time booking.

Operational

• Manage day-to-day operational aspects of a project, scope, and budget.
• Manage and maintain interlock of projects with other project managers.
• Create and execute project work plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Effectively apply, support and champion the CLS Governance methodology and enforce project standards.
• Review deliverables prepared by the project team before company-wide review.
• Identify all project resources and where necessary work with the PMO to secure project support resources.
• Identify and lead the virtual project team.
• Manage, mitigate, and report project risks and issues.
• Where required, recruiting project staff and consultants.
• Managing co-ordination of the partners and working groups engaged in project work.
• Ensure project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.
• Detailed project planning and control including:
• Developing and maintaining a detailed project plan.
• Managing project deliverables in line with the project plan.
• Recording and managing project issues and escalating where necessary.
• Resolving cross-functional issues at project level.
• Managing project scope and change control.
• Monitoring project progress and performance from a benefit realization, time, cost, and quality perspective.
• Liaison with, and updates progress to, project steering board/senior management
• From time to time, provide cover for peers and assist in the creation and issuance of departmental reports.
• Understand basic revenue models, P/L, and cost-to-completion projections, apply analysis to this data to make project decisions and provide reporting of this data.

Leadership

• Coach and mentor and lead junior members of staff.
• Display complete ownership for projects leading by example.
• Capable of managing a project team effectively through matrix management. Need to be able to get the best out of a team of people who are not direct reports.
• Experienced at managing stakeholders ensuring effective communication and governance is in place.
• Influence and manage the project teams (internal and external) to deliver to the required constraints of time, budget, and quality.

Experience / essential and desired for successful job performance.

• Significant practical experience of leading and managing Projects across diverse domains including ones within operational or technology resilience.
• Extensive hands-on experience of delivering complex change programs across an end-to-end project lifecycle gained within a large high regulated organization.
• Understands Operational Resilience frameworks, strategic alignment, Risk Assessments, Regulatory Compliance implementations and IT security Frameworks.
• Experience with tools such as enterprise repositories , Configuration Databases and Operational Resilience platforms
• Understands change management and implementation on new policies, process and tools.
• Have responsibility of delivering change programs with budgets more than £1m
• Excellent communication skills with practical experience of supporting technical teams to formulate and articulate business benefits through the construction of business cases.
• Demonstrable experience of quantifying the effort required to deliver a solution whilst articulating any implications of any proposed solution on the wider business and existing systems.
• Experienced in creating well-structured, quality project documentation with excellent skills in the use of the MS Office suite of tools and MS Project.
• Experience of using PlanView or similar, to produce and maintain high quality project plans.
• Strong personal work ethic and excellent inter-personal skills.

Qualifications / certifications

• Formal training Project Management (MSP/PRINCE2/PMI/APM/SIX SIGMA)

Success factors / ‘How’ Personal characteristics contributing to an individual’s ability to excel in the position.

• Proactive Leader – Strong management skills which make you effective at leading a project team, negotiating with Senior Managers, stakeholders and external suppliers and contractors. You should be able to positively influence all stakeholders to ensure a cost-effective quality deliverable whilst ensuring effective time management to get the job done.
• Strong communicator – Be able to demonstrate a number of years of experience of communicating clearly at all levels within a business and with senior sponsors and internal and external stakeholders. Be well experienced in both the “Art” as well as the “Science” of project management to ensure that CLS obtains the maximum value for its investment.
• Delivery of Business Benefits – A comprehensive understanding and demonstrable experience in ensuring that all projects deliver quantified business benefits.
• Excellent Problem-solving skills – Demonstrable competencies in solving problems. Always challenging ‘facts’ in order to find the best plan to deliver the project. Where and when necessary, escalate early and appropriately to management prior to avoid issues and deviations to plan.
• Consultative relationship management – Gets to the heart of the issues with a presence and gravitas and clarity of presentation across all forms of communication.
• Strong People Management Skills – Able to bring the best out of people and a team through leading by example and by coaching and mentoring staff members and developing personalised self-development plans.

Our commitment to employees:

At CLS, we celebrate diversity and consider this to be one of our strongest assets. We are committed to fostering an environment in which everyone feels comfortable to be who they are, and inclusion is valued. All employees have access to our inclusive benefits, including:

• Holiday - UK/Asia: 25 holiday days and 3 ‘life days’ (in addition to bank holidays). US: 23 holiday days.
• 2 paid volunteer days so that you can actively support causes within your community that are important to you.
• Generous parental leave policies to ensure you can enjoy valuable time with your family.
• Parental transition coaching programmes and support services.
• Wellbeing and mental health support resources to ensure you are looking after yourself, and able to support others.
• Affinity Groups (including our Women’s Forum, Black Employee Network and Pride Network) in support of our organisational commitment to embrace and always be learning more about DE&I.
• Hybrid working to promote a healthy work/life balance, enabling employees to work collaboratively in the office when needed and work from home when they don’t.
• Active support of flexible working for all employees where possible.
• Monthly ‘Heads Down Days’ with no meetings across the whole company.
• Generous non-contributory pension provision for UK/Asia employees, and 401K match from CLS for US employees.
• Private medical insurance and dental coverage.
• Social events that give you opportunities to meet new people and broaden your network across the organisation.
• Discounts and savings and cashback across a wide range of categories including health and retail for UK employees.
• Discounted Gym membership – Complete Body Gym Discount/Sweat equity program for US employees.
• All employees have access to Discover – our comprehensive learning platform with 1000+ courses from LinkedIn Learning.
• Access to frequent development sessions on a number of topics to help you be successful and develop your career at CLS.