Program Manager – Finance I.T – Tier 1 Investment Bank recruitment
The project is coming to the end of the financial requirements and it is in the early stages from a technical perspective. It is in a set up stage and the manager needs someone to get things operational and actively drive the program forward. He wants someone that has a set of skills from a change program that can drive things through. Ideally the manager needs somebody that is prepared to get hands dirty, set up basic tools and controls and also draw conclusions, criticise and drive the program, educate and bring people forward.
Core skills
Finance experience is good but not mandatory. (nice to have)
Senior Project/Junior Program Management.
Experience of setting up program
Team
£22 million budget for I.T,
8/9 work streams through this. In the Finance space large change the bank stream, with a fine layer across technology.
The manager faces off into the head of Finance I.T
Skill Sets
Large programs, pragmatic approach, not someone that does just Prince 2.
The person needs to be up front in your style not a shrinking violet
Can be from a consultancy background need strong execution skills.
Must haves
Good project/program discipline, resilience and drive, hard project skills, ability to influence and drive change programs.
He needs someone that knows the difference in program and project management, but can come from a Project perspective.
He needs someone that has been running budgets in the millions with a team sizes of 20 – 25 people
It is a matrix structure with limited direct reports and 1 direct report.
Technology
In Technology, but not hard core, don’t need to be a deep technologist but they need to have an understanding.