Change Manager – Fintech

Location: London

Salary: £65k basic plus excellent commission, bonus + benefits

Job Type/Hours: Full time

Our client has an exciting opportunity for a Change Manager to join their rapidly growing London-based team.

The Company: Our client is a leading Fintech Payments Group that brings together technology and financial services into an omnichannel solution.

The Role: Our client is looking for an experienced Change Manager to build and execute a project delivery structure for critical products and processes. This role partners business, technology, and wider company project teams to ensure that the proposed solutions are delivered in a timely fashion and in line with the company’s strategic objectives. Being at the front line of our project delivery strategy, you will ideally come from a similar, fast-paced business, financial services, banking, or fintech background.

• Setting projects up for success by building and maintaining a project plan to track delivery against agreed milestones as well as managing delivery risk.
• Identifying the communications and relationship needs of stakeholder groups.
• Translating communications/stakeholder engagement strategies into specific activities and deliverables and ensuring implementation thereof.
• Effectively estimating costs, timescales, and resource requirements for the successful delivery of the project(s) to agreed terms of reference and business benefits.
• Building, leading, and coaching multiple project teams throughout project lifecycles.
• Keeping project financial records up to date, ensuring appropriate levels of contingency are being held for the unknowns.
• Working collaboratively across the business to ensure projects deliver the outcomes defined in each business case.
• Defining and driving best practice and consistent delivery of service.
• Providing leadership during development by identifying any incremental opportunities.
• Actively managing projects, managing resources to define and execute against plans.
• Actively managing Quality, Financials, Dependencies, Key Risks, and Issues.
• Delivering smooth service implementation through development of relationships, operational enablement, and testing phases.
• Liaising with all operational delivery organisations in developing the service.
• Managing relationships with key business stakeholders, leadership, and service partners.
• Aligning leadership (e.g., sponsors, senior and middle leadership) on key messaging and communication approach across all departments.

You:

• Excellent understanding of project management techniques and ability to tailor your delivery style using the most appropriate methodology for the project.
• Experience in fintech, payments, and banking.
• Proven success in delivering business change in a high growth environment, working with both Business and in-house/external IT teams.
• Proven stakeholder management skills with the ability to handle conflict.
• Excellent collaboration, negotiation, and presentation skills.
• An ability to navigate the organisation, and effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical users at all levels of an organisation.
• Experience with Agile frameworks (SCRUM, Kanban is a plus).
• Opportunity to be part of a market-leading Fintech business.
• Health and Wellbeing ethos.
• Family friendly enhanced benefits/policies.

To submit your CV for this exciting Change Manager opportunity, please click ‘Apply’ now!