Description
Glasgow - Project Manager - £250 - £280 per day.
EA Consulting Groups' Banking client urgently requires a motivated Project Manager to join them on a contract basis. The role is within a payments programme and is supporting the global strategy for the bank's global payments
Experience required:
- Programme/Project Set Up and Closure: Agrees a clearly defined delivery approach for own area of responsibility.
- Governance and Reporting: Reports progress and status to the appropriate stakeholders on a timely basis, including identification and escalation of key risks and issues.
- Project Delivery: Follows the appropriate elements of the projects delivery life cycle for own area of responsibility, including contributing to/completing formal reviews at appropriate points.
- Implements appropriate project support processes to manage issues, identify and mitigate risks, monitor dependencies and record assumptions, and ensure that the right level of quality is achieved in all deliverables.
- Planning: Produces a project or workstream plan defining the deliverable milestones, tasks and activities; understands the project critical path and how own area of responsibility impacts this; monitors progress against project/workstream plan, identifies slippage and supports activity to recover.
- Resource Management and Finance: Provides support to the control and management of project budgets and resource costs, reporting variances and escalating as appropriate to overcome delays, difficulties or cost over-runs.
- Stakeholder Management: Identifies key project or workstream stakeholders for their area of responsibility and contributes to the appropriate stakeholder communication plan.
- Ensures sign off for all accountable deliverables.
- Internal/External Relationships: Builds and maintains effective working and influencing relationships with appropriate colleagues, proactively answering queries and following up actions with stakeholders.
- People and Self Development: Takes responsibility for self-development, actively seeking and providing feedback and responding accordingly.
- Risk: Timely and accurate completion of own project deliverables, assessing and managing risks and identifying counter measures.
- Group Values: Demonstrates Lloyds Banking Group values and behaviour and encourages this in team members.
Desirable skills and experience
Ideal candidate will have a background in working in financial payments and understanding of electronic payment systems preferably obtained within a banking environment.
For more information, please apply online or send your CV. Due to the high volume of application only those suitable for the role will be contacted. If you have not been contacted within 5 days assume you are unsuccessful.