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Compliance and Financial Crime Project Manager

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London, United Kingdom

Freelance

09-01-2025

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Compliance and Financial Crime Project Manager
Our client, a leading global supplier for IT services, requires an experienced Compliance and Financial Crime Project Managerto be based in their client's office in London, UK.
This is a fully onsite role.
This is a 6+ month temporary contract, to start asap.
Day rate: Competitive Market rate.
Role Description:
The successful candidate will be part of the Compliance and Financial Crime Portfolio Change function, reporting into the Portfolio Lead and its corresponding delegate on a regular basis
Among other Project Management tasks, the candidate will be responsible for the creation and maintenance of RAID logs, Business Justification documents, and Status reporting activities
When required, the candidate must be able to facilitate technical analysis and translate facts and figures to allow for streamlined decision making by non subject matter experts
The right candidate will work closely, from front to back, with Functional Subject Matter Expert (SME) leads or Account Executives (AEs) in support of delivering against planned initiatives, the definition and running of fact finding and decision-making meetings, Working Groups, and Steering Committees to achieve tangible outcomes required to deliver against business objectives
Key Responsibilities:
Delivering complex change projects from design through to build, deployment and handover to the business
Managing the full project lifecycle adhering to management standard governance and best practice from project initiation to closure
Working closely with relevant business and key stakeholders to ensure effective and efficient implementation of project(s)
Creating and maintaining project plans and revising as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements
Run and manage steering committees, working groups (cross functional) and ensure accountability of actions against planned timelines
Be a trusted partner functional stakeholders and Planning department ensuring updates, issues and consensus is effectively managed and delivered
Manage implementation deliveries ensuring transparency of risks, issues and dependencies that are fully aligned to functional/business owners
Produce management information surrounding project health and delivery of progress
Manage the project costs against budget and report status update on the project budget
Planning, managing and escalating risks/issues in a timely fashion to determine priorities and feed strategy
Identifying resource demand and assign responsibilities
Working closely with technology and business product owners in order to design and deliver a fit for purpose solution
Key Requirements:
Experience in either Compliance or Financial Crime is a must to ensure quick understanding of content and anticipating risks or issues
The candidate will need to have extensive experience in Investment Banking, with strong Compliance or FinCrime experience
Strong communication and interpersonal skills are a must, and candidate must have a well organised structured approach to managing medium to large projects and work with senior stakeholders, subject matter experts and consultants
Experience in successfully leading full lifecycle complex projects
Minimum 5 years proven track record delivering projects to financial institutions within time and budget
Degree level (min)
Programme/Project management or Financial markets led accreditation (beneficial)
Advanced experience of MS Project and or other PM tools (Planview)
Microsoft Office skills (specifically PowerPoint, Visio, Excel & Word)
Strong governance approach to delivery
Effective communication and leadership skills
Full understanding of the project lifecycle
Strong project delivery and deadline management
Experienced user of project management tools
Proven experience of managing budgets
Demonstrable track record of managing multiple stakeholders and building relationships across diverse skillsets and across the international organisation
Direct experience in managing multiple functional stakeholder (senior level) and consultants to derive clear and tangible outcomes
Experience with identifying project outputs and tracking Business benefits
Result & Delivery driven, with a strong sense of accountability
A proactive, motivated approach
Conflict management ensuring collaborative outcomes
Strong decision-making skills, the ability to demonstrate sound judgement
A structured and logical approach to work
The ability to manage large workloads and tight deadlines
Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
A calm approach, with the ability to perform well in a pressurised environment
Strong numerical skills
Special working conditions
You may have to work on some weekends
Due to the volume of applications received, unfortunately we cannot respond to everyone.
If you do not hear back from us within 7 days of sending your application, please assume that you have not been successful on this occasion.
Please do keep an eye on our website https://projectrecruit.com/jobs/for future roles.

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