Senior Project Manager

The role in a nutshell: To manage a portfolio of projects focussed on product, process, compliance, and system development, providing long-term delivery and project effectiveness.

A bit about the ‘Business Transformation’ department: we ensure current and future change projects are delivered using best practice project management techniques appropriate to the type and scale of projects and delivering the identified business benefit.

What you’ll be doing:

· Manage the full project portfolio (as well as assigned projects) and annual budget on behalf of KINTO UK, monitoring the costs against deliverables, and realised benefits as projects progress, linking to the company strategy.

• Plan, schedule, and allocate projects based on agreed prioritisation.
• Prepare Project Plans, and if necessary, Stage Plans, in collaboration with IT and Business Managers, and agree them with the Operational Leadership Committee (OLC).
• Providing ongoing updates and project assurance to the OLC on the portfolio.
• Plan the KINTO UK program deliverables, including change management, and monitoring the overall progress, resolving issues, and initiating corrective action as appropriate.
• Ensure the delivery of new products and services from the projects are to the appropriate levels of quality, on time and within budget, in accordance with the programme plan. Manage third party contributions to the programme.
• Produce a Project Initiation Document for each project, as and when required (system, technical, legal and compliance projects).
• Liaise with and prepare data insights (e.g. the Highlight Reports or End Stage reports) for the Project Committee to ensure overall direction and integrity of the project.
• People management, coaching and developing the team.

Key Experience & Skills:

• Experience in managing large change programs (circa £20M+)
• Excellent leadership, interpersonal and communication skills
• Good knowledge of techniques for planning, monitoring, and controlling programs
• Sound business case development and approvals skills.
• Good understanding of the procurement process including negotiation with third parties
• Proven knowledge and experience of program and project management methods including MSP and PRINCE2
• Strong knowledge and experience of budgeting and resource allocation procedures
• Ability to find ways of solving or pre-empting problems.
• Experience in Finance / Financial Services