- Ensuring the portfolio is in line with the Technology department's budget and plans.
- Managing project priorities during both annual planning and throughout the financial year as unplanned projects arise.
- Detailing project outcomes to justify costs and obtaining executive buy-in at the portfolio baselining stage.
- Ensuring projects meet defined quality standards, including completeness, accuracy, and currency of data.
- Regularly tracking progress through PMO reports and meetings.
- Monitoring project progress to confirm outcomes align with business cases.
- Using expertise to challenge projects for on-time, on-budget, and in-scope delivery.
- Managing baseline elements like scope, budget, and benefits.
- Involvement in updating the project delivery framework.
- Execute strategic projects, and supporting business plans.
- Ensuring proper resource allocation, vendor management, and adherence to project methodologies.
- Managing project budgets and timelines, analysing variances, and taking corrective actions.
- Overseeing team performance, setting objectives, and conducting appraisals.
- Maintaining strong communication with stakeholders and steering committees.
- A minimum of 10 years of proven experience in managing and delivering programs and projects to financial institutions within agreed timelines and budgets.
- Expertise in financial management, including cost categorization.
- Extensive experience in project, program, and portfolio management, including implementing change control processes.
- Proven track record of end-to-end project/program/programme/portfolio delivery, covering annual planning, prioritization, execution, and closure.
- Expertise in change and risk management.
- Experience in preparing and presenting executive-level reports.
- Strong background in risk and issue management.
- £120,000 basic salary
- 20% bonus
- Hybrid – 3 days per week in London
- Private medical
- Excellent pension (up to 12%)
- Additional excellent lifestyle, wealth and wellbeing benefits