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SalaryWe have a fantastic new opportunity for an experienced Associate Project Manager. This is an integral and varied role, and your experience will be invaluable to the whole team. Reporting directly to the Group Project Manager, you will be responsible for the coordination and completion of projects from setting deadlines, building project plans, assigning responsibilities, monitoring, and summarising progress of projects, and preparing reports for upper management regarding status of projects.
This is an exciting time to join Perspective Financial Group. As a market leader, we are innovating, growing, and leading the way in our client centric approach as we experience fast and sustained national growth.
Location: Working remotely anywhere across the UK
Hours: Monday – Friday 9.00am – 5.00pm (35 hours)
Salary: Competitive with Benefits - Available upon request
Benefits: 25 days holiday (rising with length of service) plus Bank Holidays, Holiday Purchase Scheme, Life Assurance, Pension, Corporate Eyecare and Birthday leave.
Specific Responsibilities
The key duties of the role are:
- Optimise utilisation of talents through specific development and mobility programs.
- Conduct project meetings to communicate individual roles, project expectations, and ensure that all project team members have the tools and training required to perform effectively.
- Manage the project estimating activities.
- Coordinate schedule of activities related to the project.
- Monitor projects on a regular basis, evaluating progress and quality, and managing issue resolution process to ensure corrective actions are taken.
- Maintain the quality of all project document/data to assure the integrity of a project.
- Work with the Project Manager to report analysed data and communicate results.
- Work with resource managers to implement resource strategies for specific organisations
- Develop and implement sourcing schedule to ensure workforce coverage.
- Develop and maintain strong working relationships with all stakeholders, internal and external, ensuring clear communication and updates are available and delivered to all relevant parties regarding the progression of each project on a frequent basis.
- Perform lessons learned and act where changes are required.
- Adhere to standardised format guidelines.
- Help to record achievements, expenses, and measures for success.
- Develop additional tools and refine processes to help all projects run effectively.
- Understand a project’s scope and create documents for project requirements.
Due to the nature of the business, the role may also include additional responsibilities considered reasonable.
Proven working experience as a Project Manager within financial services is essential.
Project Management Professional PRINCE2 certification (PMP or others are a plus)- Experience with project management software tools.
Solid organisational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills.
- A background in both hard and soft facilities management.
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office and other Microsoft packages.
- Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Effective time management and organisational skills. The ability to prioritise and plan for self and others with the proven ability to lead projects with multiple stakeholders and achieve shared goals and results.
- Proactive and flexible; comfortable working in a dynamic business environment with constantly changing priorities.
- Ability to collaborate and develop holistic solutions across silo type environments.
- This role will require some travel within the UK.
