PROJECT MANAGER in London

This role involves leading the end‐to‐end delivery of critical banking technology and regulatory change initiatives across areas such as Retail and Corporate Lending, Payments, and Customer Onboarding. You will drive Agile execution across multiple squads, ensuring predictable delivery through structured sprint planning, Kanban tracking, and velocity management.

Your Role:

• Lead end‐to‐end delivery of banking technology and regulatory change initiatives, ensuring alignment with business objectives across Retail & Corporate Lending, Payments, and Customer Onboarding journeys.
• Drive Agile project execution (Scrum/Kanban) for multi‐squad delivery, maintaining Kanban boards, sprint plans, and velocity tracking to ensure predictable release cycles.
• Manage Banking Change initiatives, including process reengineering, compliance updates (KYC/AML, Credit Risk, Operational Risk), and system enhancements across core banking and digital channels.
• Apply PMP/Prince2 frameworks for governance, risk & issue management, RAID tracking, and adherence to bank‐wide audit and compliance controls.
• Lead project scoping, estimation, and financial planning, ensuring alignment with portfolio budgets and the bank's technology roadmap.
• Create and maintain Gantt charts, release plans, dependency maps, and status dashboards to drive transparent and effective stakeholder communication.
• Coordinate with cross‐functional teams—Business, Technology, QA, Architecture, Risk, and Compliance—to ensure seamless delivery of banking products and platform enhancements.
• Utilize Trello, JIRA, Confluence, or similar PM tools to streamline task management, traceability, and documentation standards.
• Manage vendor and third‐party integrations, ensuring adherence to SL, data security guidelines, and contractual KPIs within the banking ecosystem.
• Build and maintain strong stakeholder and client relationships, ensuring alignment with business priorities, regulatory timelines, and operational goals.

Your Skills:

• 5–7 years of Project Management experience, preferably in Banking or Financial Services.
• Strong exposure to Retail/Corporate Lending, Payments, Cards, UPI, SWIFT, RTGS/NEFT, Account Servicing, or other BFSI functions.
• PMP or Prince2 certification preferred.
• Proven experience delivering projects in Agile environments, including sprint governance, backlog management, and release planning.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to partner effectively with Business, Tech, and Risk teams.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple parallel initiatives while maintaining control of scope, timelines, and budgets.
• Strong understanding of change management practices in regulated banking environments.
• Experience with CRM systems, core banking platforms, vendor ecosystems, or financial product integrations is an added advantage.

We are a Disability Confident Employer: Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government's Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who declare they have a disability and meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Make It Real (what does it mean for you): You'd be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as we see a healthy and happy workforce as a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained 'Mental Health Champions' across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini's 'learning for life' mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.

You will be joining one of the World's Most Ethical Companies, as recognised by Ethisphere for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.

Why you should consider Capgemini: Growing clients' businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you'll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what's possible. It's why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world's leading businesses, and it's how you'll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you'll build the skills you want. You'll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini: Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end‐to‐end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.