Hamilton Forth is delighted to be supporting our financial services client to appoint a contract Senior Project Manager. The role will be sitting within our clients financial crime / fraud systems programme and will be responsible for leading the project teams and managing the full project life-cycle.

Responsibilities:

• Developing and managing stakeholder engagement plans, ensuring continuous and clear communications with sponsors, business owners and impacted suppliers.
• Working with project sponsors to develop scope and business cases including financials and project plans.
• Developing and maintaining a disciplined change control process to make sure changes are formally agreed.
• Managing the project visibly against the project plan including schedule and budget, making changes where necessary.
• Ensuring the project adheres to the Change Standard Procedures and governance frameworks.
• Working with internal / external stakeholders and suppliers to design innovative solutions and establish requirements and priorities.
• Establishing resourcing requirements for the project and work with Portfolio/Programme leads to optimise the mix of internal/external resource and develop solutions to resource shortfalls.
• Ensuring the project delivers on time and within budget whilst remaining aligned to the strategy.
• Taking accountability, assessing situations and making critical decisions when faced with complex demands and issues that can, and will, arise throughout the project life-cycle.
• Leading and coordinating teams of diverse technical and non-technical resources across multiple geographic sites and engaging effectively with external 3rd party service providers.

In addition to this, the successful candidate will have some demonstrable project management experience in a delivery environment.

This role is an INSIDE IR35, daily rate contract, for an initial 9 months with the liklihood of an extension, with remote working options.

Daily rate: £450 / day.

If you believe this position would suit your experience and skill set, please apply at your earliest convenience.