Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager / Buisness change

Stratford 2 daysper week

Project Manager (Senior Associate) - Change Directorate

Are you interested in joining a team that is responsible for the successful delivery of regulatory and technology change projects within the FCA?
The team/department
We are currently recruiting for Project Managers to join us!
The role sits within the Change Directorate, which is responsible for the successful and safe delivery of the FCA's Change Portfolio, comprising the changes which are of biggest strategic importance to the FCA, the Markets we regulate and the Consumers we protect. In particular, the Project Manager will be delivering regulatory change and improvements to our business teams in Supervision, Policy and Competition (SPC) and Authorisations.
The Role :

• Successfully deliver projects from inception to agreed business outcomes, following FCA quality standards and within agreed baselines of time, budget and scope
• Building and managing stakeholder relationships across the FCA, managing expectations, defining and agreeing scope, facilitating key decisions
• Developing the project plan, deliverables and milestones to successfully deliver the business outcomes, identifying and sourcing resources to achieve time and cost expectations
• Resolving dependencies, issues and risks within delivery
• Ensure delivery adheres to the FCA Project Management Policies, Standards and Methods and Governance Framework

Location :

• Based out of our office in Stratford, East London
• We support hybrid working which means you will be able to work from home up to 60% of the time, with the remainder of your time in our London office.

The Skills And Experience You Will Have
We are a signatory to the Government's Disability Confident scheme. This means that we will offer an interview to disabled candidates entering under the scheme, who best meet the minimum criteria for a role.

Minimum

• Proven experience of managing successful business and technology change projects (£multi-million budgets) in Financial Services or for a government or regulatory body, preferably both, managing employees and 3rd parties in a matrix, from inception through to end of warranty / exit criteria achieved
• Evidence of shaping business ideas and initiatives into detailed project plans for multi-workstream delivery to achieve business outcomes
• Demonstrable evidence of planning and controlling project delivery
• Experience in managing delivery within a wider, and externally assured, delivery framework such as P3O or P3M3 or similar.

Essential

• Experienced at leading people through structural, procedural and cultural change, gaining commitment to new ways of working
• Hands on, proactive Project Manager with expeience of leading a wider team of BAs, PMO ert
• Experience of SDLC delivery through both internal development and the management of third-party suppliers
• Ability to build working relationships with sponsors, accountable executives, key business stakeholders and business subject matter experts (SME)
• Politically savvy, able to balance conflicting strategies and stakeholders, priorities and personalities, resilient and tenacious to ensure delivery whilst managing conflict
• Analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, identifying and managing dependencies, risks and issues to ensure successful delivery
• Excellent communication skills, able to engage with all levels of the organisation, providing timely and meaningful communications to update status, share progress and manage expectations of stakeholders
• Able, where necessary to perform and/or support PMO functions within a project environment
• Able to use influencing and negotiating techniques in complex and conflicting stakeholder requirements with senior and influential stakeholders

About The FCA
The FCA regulates the conduct of 50,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. We do this to make sure markets work well for individuals, businesses and the economy as a whole.

The FCA's Values & Diversity
Our ambition is to cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation - one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better regulation.
We particularly welcome applications from women, disabled, and minority ethnic candidates, as under-represented groups.