IT Project Manager – Corporate Banking , Canary Wharf recruitment

The Company

IT Project Manager - Commercial / Corporate Banking - Canary Wharf

One of the country's leading international commercial banks has initiated a broad range of technology programmes across the UK within their Operations and Credit Risk arena. As a result, a high-calibre Project Manager is being sought to align to specific work streams and deliver components or suites of applications within this unit.

The Role

The Project Manager will engage with a broad range senior stakeholders in the business and work to plan, prioritise the work of analysis, development and testing resources in multiple locations in the organisations and within vendors. The Project Manager has accountability for end to end delivery of the projects within the portfolio throughout each of the project life cycles, taking the delivery from initiation through to release into the production environment.

Key experience required:-
- Significant IT project management across the full systems development life cycle with experience of work estimation, planning and reporting
- Direct accountability for a significant budget of £3+ million or ~25 man years effort
- Strong experience with project methodologies - ideally Price 2 or PMI (PMP) certified
- Experience of delivering in complex, international organisations with geographically dispersed business stakeholders to successfully manage their expectations either within a blue-chip organisation or management consultancy.
- Used to undertaking project management in a matrix managed project structure where internal IT resources are on and offshore and with third party suppliers whose resources will also be on and offshore
- Content knowledge within any of the following domains and technical awareness of the major applications is highly desirable:
- Commercial/Corporate Banking
- International Payments (e.g. SWIFT, PSD, SEPA)
- Credit Risk
- Banking operations

Salary Benefits

Salary to £65,000 + £10,000 cash car allowance/London weighting + bonus
Banking benefits + 15-18% pension

Robert Half Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. Robert Half is committed to equal opportunity and diversity. Suitable candidates with equivalent qualifications and more or less experience can apply.