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IT Project Manager (12 month FTC)
at Cashplus London in London (Published at 12-10-2023)
Who we are
Cashplus is a leading UK challenger bank for small businesses. We offer faster, smarter, simpler current accounts for the entrepreneurs, independent businesses and consumers that power the UK economy, yet are too often overlooked by high street banks. Since 2005, we’ve created easier ways for more than 1.6m customers to pay, bank and borrow through our user-friendly digital platform. We understand what our customers need – time and money to run their businesses and live their lives – and our secure, innovative products are designed to help, where others can’t or won’t. A true fintech pioneer, we are a fast-growing and credible UK challenger bank.
http://www.cashplus.com/
Our Values & Behaviours
Cashplus puts the fair treatment of customers at the heart of our business model. Our business goals are:
1. Becoming a bank that customers love
2. Developing brilliant, sustainable products
3. Earning an outstanding reputation
Cashplus values are:
- We innovate with purpose
- We are upfront
- We do it right
- We are all in
Individual Conduct rules:
- You must act with integrity
- You must act with due skill, care and diligence
- You must be open and cooperative with the FCA, the PRA and other regulators.
- You must pay due regard to the interests of customers and treat them fairly.
- You must observe proper standards of market conduct
- Act to deliver good outcomes for retail customers
The role is
Cashplus Bank are delighted to be offering an opportunity for an experienced IT Project Manager to join our technology and project delivery team on an initial 12 month Fixed-Term-Contract basis.
Within this exciting and varied role, the IT Project Manager will co-ordinate internal technology, workstream and business resources across a variety of projects for more than 250 colleagues nationwide.
Furthermore, this IT Project Manager job will help drive delivery of project objectives, ensuring that key stakeholders are kept informed on progress and that any issues are escalated in a timely manner.
Team hybrid working style
We are very proud to offer one of the most flexible hybrid working arrangements in the industry!
The expectation for this role, will involve a minimum of one day each month - working out of our London Bridge office.
What you'll be doing
Project Delivery
- Drive Delivery of designated projects to scope, time and budget
- Work with Project Sponsors to author Project Initiation Documents and ensure these include robust business cases
- Organise and facilitate project kick-off sessions
- Co-ordinate the discovery phase and capture/document high-level requirements (functional and non-functional)Complete weekly and monthly project status reporting for wider business review and prioritisation
- Ensure all project documentation is accurate and up to date
- Identify internal and external dependencies with other projects
- Where required, create or update work tickets in our JIRA task management system
- Facilitate formal closure of completed projects, including capture of Lessons Learned
Resource Management
- Identify resource requirements during initiation and work with stakeholders to secure resource
- Develop and maintain detailed, resource level project plans and monitor their delivery
- Identify resource constraints/dependencies ahead of time and resolve conflicts to bring delivery back on track
Stakeholder Engagement
- Establish and maintain effective communication channels with stakeholders, including project workstreams, vendors and senior management
- Lead and facilitate project steering meetings, ensuring conversation continues to topic, meeting objectives are realised and they run to time.
- Create and maintain steering packs, meeting minutes and RAIDD logs
- Collaborate with Technology Department Heads to ensure impacts to testing, platform, information security and service desk / application support are fully considered
- Work with the wider business to ensure they are adequately prepared for change and that handover to BAU state is considered
Risk and Control Management
- Engage the 2nd & 3rd level teams to ensure business wide risks are considered
- Proactively identify and manage Project risks and issues, and establish pragmatic mitigating actions to minimise their impact on the project
- Ensure all systems, processes and procedures are built to operate safely within risk appetite and the risk appetite of any breaches is low to nil
- Conduct regular risk and assurance reviews and publish outcomes
You'll need to have
- Experience in a senior project level role with additional Scrum Master related exposure
- Experience of managing complex change projects
- Confidence in escalating issues where there are project blockers
- To lead, motivate and manage cross-functional project teams
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across all levels (Written and verbal)
- Experience of estimating and managing budgets
- Strong numeracy and analytical skills
- Knowledge of formal Project Management methodologies such as (PRINCE2/Agile/APMP)
In return you'll enjoy
- Competitive basic salary
- 7.5% of salary in cash allowing you the flexibility to decide your own benefits (or simply take the cash)
- 26 days’ holiday increasing each year of service to 33 days
- Ability to buy and sell a further 5 days holiday each year
- 4 x Life Assurance
- Pension salary sacrifice
- Family friendly policies
- Regular social activities and team events
- Charity Volunteering Day
- Free drinks and snacks in the office
Cashplus is an equal opportunity employer. Individuals seeking employment are considered without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
