Job Responsibilities
- Agree the project scope, identify the outputs and plan the activities needed to deliver the required business change whilst ensuring that resources are available and timescales realistic.
- Direct and motivate the project team to ensure tasks are completed in line with the project plan and required standards.
- Monitor, verify, forecast, and report project progress and finances against the plan to identify any issues affecting the project delivery or achievement of the business case, initiating corrective action where necessary.
- Build relationships and communicate with all stakeholders (including some external stakeholders) of the project to ensure all decisions are focused on achievement of the business case.
- Work with colleagues from across the delivery team in support of wider Portfolio aims.
- Identify, analyse, evaluate and prioritise risks to ensure appropriate actions are in place to minimise their potential impacts on the business.
Qualifications, Skills & Abilities
Essential Criteria
- Current Prince 2 Practitioner and/or APM (Association for Project Management) Certificate or equivalent, or be willing to gain these qualifications. Practitioner in MoP, MSP or MoR would also be an advantage
- A proven track record of delivering on time and to customers’ requirements, ideally through experience of managing several high-risk business critical projects from start to finish.
- A proven ability to escalate issues and recommend solutions through formal and informal channels, securing effective outcomes
- The ability to handle multiple demands and shifting priorities together with an ability to identify the important issues.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills that engage and influence internal and external people at all levels and backgrounds
- Be able to demonstrate some knowledge of Met Office customers, the products and services delivered to them, and the IT capability within the Met Office.
Desirable Criteria
- Experience of working in any or all of these areas i) the Defence Sector ii) delivery of complex IT projects iii) delivery of services through a Cloud technology environment.
- Experience of delivering projects using both agile and waterfall techniques.
- Experience of collaboration and project tools
Contract length: 6 months
Adkins & Cheurfi are delighted to be recruiting for a Project Manager – Finance – within our client’s organisation. The role is based in the UK with offices in Canary Wharf and offers remote working no matter where you are based.
Our client is a global business with more than 41,150 employees with inspiring careers from day one. Staff are left to think creatively and lead with passion and honesty, the client understands that people are the source of our success. They value collaboration, work in partnership with their customers, and strive for the highest standards of excellence. In today’s market conditions, they are supporting operations for hundreds of clients around the world remotely. No matter where you are located, you’ll join a dedicated, diverse community that will help you discover your fullest potential as Project Manager – Finance
DESCRIPTION
Do you want to join a team of globally renowned and award-winning Designers and Technologists, who are passionate about what they do and how they do it? Do you want to play a key role in building strong business/technology relationships, taking a hands-on approach to defining a culture of continuous improvement, while being accountable for the overall project delivery, client satisfaction and the management of expectations?
RESPONSIBILITIES
- The primary responsibility of the position is managing the delivery of multiple complex ends to end digital transformation projects across various clients
- Cover the full project initiation and life cycle: lead management, qualification for the bid/financing, staffing, client management, delivery and execution governance
- Run multiple delivery streams and clients, to ensure governance at the top management level
- Oversee delivery from financial, sourcing, development and business perspectives
- Suggest innovative solutions to business problems/processes that leverage technology to provide marketing differentiation, efficiency improvements, and better user experiences
- Investigate complex issues of production delivery, run the root cause analysis, establish a solution and push it through required steps necessary in order to deliver
- Drive integrated teams to deliver solid technology solutions in support of key client initiatives
- Coordinate the preparation of customer proposals and statements of work
- Participate in new business development and discovery led projects
- Manage customer expectations and relationship. Manage high-level client relationships, looking for opportunities to up/ cross-sell products and services through relationship management
- Work closely with multi-disciplined teams of product owners, architects, engineers and quality assurance to drive estimates, delivery plans and retrospectives. Identify and manage engagement risks and flag major issues early
- Management of a team of Technology Project Managers – providing coaching, mentoring and development support to drive up delivery capability across the department
REQUIREMENTS
- Proven experience in managing the delivery of an organization of 40-100 FTE and or high business impact engagements of a similar size
- Experience in banking, fintech or insurance
- Ability to apply a mix of business knowledge and delivery practices to projects to achieve the best results
- Knowledge and ability to assess and propose a variety of methodology, process and technology on accounts
- Strong experience working with distributed teams on client-side
- Excellent communication, presentation, and planning skills are necessary, experience with working with nearshore teams preferable
- Exceptional organization, leadership and stakeholder management skills
BENEFITS
- A competitive group pension plan, life assurance and income protection
- Private medical insurance, private dental care and critical illness cover
- Cycle scheme Tech scheme and season ticket loan
- Employee assistance program
- Various perks such as Gym discount, Friday lunch, on-site massage and regular social events
- Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions
- Some of these benefits may be available only after you have passed your probationary period
Previous Local Authority experience is essential
Job Purpose:
To provide project management and consultancy for a variety of IT projects within a Programme Management environment. Ideally with experience of MS Dynamics.
To support this large programme of work we require a Project Manager who has a solid technical knowledge experience of delivering wide-ranging IT projects predominantly in Waterfall methodology.
Principal Accountabilities:
- Start up, run and see to completion assigned projects following the Council’s adopted methodology, PRINCE2.
- Work with the project sponsor, project board, Programme Manager and IT Managers to confirm the definition of the project, assisting them where necessary, to produce an agreed Business Case and Project Initiation Document.
- Draw up detailed plans for IT projects and agree the resourcing of those plans with the Project Board and with senior management.
- Formulate and lead a project team to carry out the tasks and deliver the products defined in the plan.
- Manage the tasks of the project team, suppliers, and Council staff outside the project team, reporting progress, risks, issues and exceptions regularly to the programme manager, project sponsor and project board.
- Work with members of the project team to analyse and redesign IT related business processes, taking a lead role as required
- Ensure that appropriate quality checks are designed and carried out for each of the deliverables of the project.
- Work with the Programme Manager to ensure the activities in the project are co-ordinated with the other projects in the programme.
- Review the outcomes of projects and make recommendations for the next steps.
- Take a part in other projects, programmes and other work of the IT Services and Governance, Skills & Strategy teams as and when required.
Person specification
EDUCATION, TRAINING AND QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- PMP or Prince2 certification.
- Proof of applying project management methodologies and tools across different projects and programmes.
Desirable
- Project management qualification (preferably PRINCE2 Practitioner)
- Management/leadership qualification
- Attendance at recognised technical training courses eg. Microsoft Networking Windows
KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Experience of delivering IT Infrastructure and Application projects of varying size and complexity
- Experience of network design / transformation / troubleshooting and a good industry understanding
- Demonstrable experience of Risk Management
- Knowledge of managing projects and resources to tight deadlines, with efficiency and accuracy
- Extensive high-level all round knowledge and experience of ICT issues and technologies technical credibility with high caliber suppliers and consultants and professional credibility with colleagues.
- Knowledge of programme/project management methodologies with in-depth knowledge of at least one methodology.
- Significant experience of delivering projects which have delivered to cost, quality and timescale.
- A significant understanding of the workings of large complex organisations and the challenges set in respect of the financial, legal and political arenas in which a large organisation operates.
- Experience of working with suppliers and other partners outside the organisation
- Experience of co-ordinating the activities of staff
- Experience of working with Senior Managers
- Experience of a delivering projects in a variety of environments and for a variety of business purposes.
Desirable
- Comprehensive knowledge of Microsoft Project
- Experience of delivering a variety of IT projects eg. Design & rollout
- Deep practical and theoretical experience of web and infrastructure technologies, CCC universal systems and CCC business applications, e.g. Windows desktop, Exchange, Windows server
- Experience of working on more than one project or work package at one time
SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES
- Ability to lead others when there is no direct line of command
- Highly flexible in style able to provide strong leadership and direction including delegating, motivating and developing members of the project team. Substantial proven leadership and a record of successful management.
- Excellent project management skills including project management tools and techniques.
- Adopts a holistic approach to planning encompassing cost, scope and benefits in the light of resource, constraints and risk.
- Familiar with risk management techniques including formal reviews where risk is put in the context of business benefits and cost of delivery.
- Well developed communication skills including extensive report writing skills and face to face interaction in both small and large groups.
- Strong presentation skills
- Focussed on getting results within challenging timescales
- Ability to encourage and engender collaborative working with suppliers and other external partners to achieve shared objectives.
- Ability to analyse problems and produce a range of options, culminating in a preferred solution.
- Ability to make rational, realistic and sound decisions based on consideration of all the facts and alternatives available.
- Ability to develop, lead and implement projects which cross service and professional boundaries.
- Ability to understand the ‘bigger picture’, through thinking innovatively and conceptually. Being outward looking whilst being able to translate the main business drivers of the Council into deliverables, plans and specific outcomes.
- Understands customer’s needs and takes appropriate action to meet their requirements.
- Manages levels of stress in an appropriate manner, which ensures that standards of work are maintained and deadlines met.
Adkins & Cheurfi are searching for a Project Manager/Data Analyst for our client, based in London
The Media Destruction Project Manager/Data Analyst will be responsible for the completion of key deliverables within the 2021 UK Tape Destruction Project. This project will deliver policy-compliant destruction of aged backup tape media.
Key Responsibilities:
The specific responsibilities of the Project Manager/Data Analyst are:
- Project planning and coordination to achieve defined milestones and accuracy requirements
- Collaboration with multiple internal stakeholder groups to identify in-scope tape media, obtain required approvals, and deliver on policy compliant destruction of approved backup tape media
- Build process and procedures necessary to identify, verify and properly destroy approved tape media
- Develop and implement data collection systems, data analytics and tools to perform precise and efficient reconciliation of approved tape media to destruction event outcomes. Identify errors in data and taking actions to resolve them.
- Data acquisition and reconciliation across multiple sources, including data cleaning as required
- Witness tape preparation and destruction events in person and/or via video tools
- Work with stakeholders ensuring all relevant evidence materials are obtained and archived appropriately
- Prepare necessary batch updates for the tape inventory system
Key Deliverables:
- Project Plan with work breakdown structure, risk log, and daily tracking updates
- Management of project resources, both internal and external, to achieve quality, budget and schedule requirements
- Manage financials against defined budgets
- Build and maintain a project data archive evidencing all actions and outcomes reconcile to the approved destruction tranches
- System inventory management, tracking and collection of evidence records to evidence 100% reconciliation destruction was accurate to approvals, performed to company policies and fully updated in all relevant inventory systems
Requirements
To be effective in this role the candidate must:
- 5+ years of Project Management experience in a major organisation handling complex initiatives from planning through to delivery. International project experience is beneficial.
- Experience working with policy-compliance projects (Ex. media audit, ISO frameworks, inventory reconciliation)
- Strong interpersonal and communications skills to establish excellent working relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders
- Excellent analytical skills, detail-oriented approach and effective presentation skills
- Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office: Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Visio
- Strong client service, teamwork and situational leadership skills
- The role has a requirement to travel to the storage and destruction facilities for witnessing media counts and subsequent destruction activities (approx. 1-2x/wk.) in Essex.
- Abide by all company, regional, local and facility Covid-19 protocols
