Senior Project Manager

Years of Experience

e.g. Minimum 5 years

Minimum 10 years of project or programme management experience, including at least 5 years delivering complex, cross-functional transformation or governance initiatives in banking or another regulated industry.

Key Responsibilities

Main duties and day-to-day tasks expected from the resource

• Plan, coordinate, and manage the delivery of complex transformation, governance, compliance, and audit-remediation programmes.

• Develop and maintain integrated delivery plans, milestones, dependencies, RAID logs, decision logs, and action trackers.

• Coordinate delivery across Technology, IT GRC, HR, Compliance, Internal Audit, Procurement, and external stakeholders.

• Establish and manage governance forums, working groups, management reporting, and decision-making processes.

• Monitor programme progress, implementation readiness, risks, issues, dependencies, and closure activities.

• Manage resource onboarding, workstream coordination, and transition to business-as-usual operations.

• Maintain programme artefacts, evidence repositories, and audit-ready documentation.

• Prepare executive reporting, dashboards, and management updates to support decision-making.Monitor implementation readiness, completion status, dependencies, and closure evidence against agreed milestones.

Required Skills

Primary technical and functional skills

• Proven experience delivering transformation, governance, audit-remediation, or regulatory programmes within a regulated environment.

• Strong programme planning, dependency management, risk management, issue resolution, and governance reporting capabilities.

• Experience establishing governance forums, escalation processes, decision frameworks, and delivery controls.

• Strong stakeholder-management skills, including engagement with senior leadership and cross-functional teams.

• Understanding of governance, compliance, audit, risk, policy management, and evidence-management practices.

• Experience managing programme documentation, audit evidence, action tracking, and closure readiness activities.

• Experience developing executive dashboards and management reporting using Power BI and Excel.

• Practical experience using JIRA and Confluence for programme management, tracking, and documentation.

• Strong communication, presentation, and executive-reporting skills.

• Ability to work independently and effectively manage delivery within complex and evolving environments.

Key Deliverables

Expected outputs and outcomes from the resource

• Integrated programme plan, milestones, dependencies, RAID log, decision log, and action tracker.

• Programme governance schedule, management packs, meeting minutes, and action follow-up.

• Executive dashboards, governance reporting, and decision-support materials.

• Resource, dependency, and workstream coordination plans.

• Programme artefact repository and evidence register.

• Regulatory and audit milestone tracker.

• Closure-readiness assessments and remediation tracking.

• Programme transition, handover, and closure documentation.

• Regulatory submission and supporting evidence pack. TION 3 – CERTIFICATIONS & TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

Certifications

e.g. AWS Certified, PMP, CISSP, Azure, ITIL

PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent project / programme management certification preferred. Agile / SAFe and ITIL 4 Foundation are advantageous.

Preferred Tech Stack

e.g. Python, Java, React, Kubernetes, Power BI

• Microsoft 365

• Power BI

• Confluence

• Jira

Tools / Platforms

e.g. JIRA, Confluence, GitHub, ServiceNow, Postman

Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project or equivalent planning tool, SharePoint, Microsoft Office

Skills: Project Management , Governance , Compliance