Key Responsibilities
- Developing, maintaining and communicating detailed project plans, milestones, dependencies and delivery schedules for the JustMe pilot.
- Coordinating cross functional teams and external partners to ensure successful project delivery.
- Translating business priorities and roadmap activities into achievable delivery plans.
- Managing project risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies, escalating where required.
- Monitoring progress against objectives, holding stakeholders accountable for agreed actions and deliverables.
- Producing regular status reports, providing clear visibility of progress.
- Facilitating project meetings ensuring actions are clearly recorded and progressed
- Working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to manage expectations and maintain alignment on objectives, timelines and deliverables.
- Maintaining project documentation, reporting and delivery artefacts, ensuring stakeholders have clear visibility of progress and key decisions.
- Working with other project managers, the product team and the wider business to identify and track critical path dependencies that may affect delivery.
- Implementing and managing change controls where required to ensure project objectives remain achievable and aligned to business priorities.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Proven experience delivering complex projects from initiation through to implementation, achieving agreed scope, timescales and budget.
- Strong planning, organisational and prioritisation skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and competing priorities.
- Experience coordinating cross-functional teams and driving delivery across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the confidence to challenge constructively and build effective relationships at all levels.
- Demonstrable experience identifying, managing and mitigating project risks, issues and dependencies to maintain delivery momentum.
- Strong communication and facilitation skills, with experience leading project meetings, workshops and governance forums.
- Experience working within Agile, Waterfall or hybrid delivery environments, using project management tools to support planning, reporting and delivery.
- Experience using Aha! for roadmap planning, prioritisation and delivery management would be desirable.
- Proactive, solutions-focused and self-motivated, with the ability to deliver in fast-paced environments; experience delivering pilots, product launches or technology-based solutions would be advantageous.
- Knowledge of fraud prevention, identity verification, financial services or technology based solutions would be beneficial.
Benefits
- Remote working with approximately 2 days a month in the London office, although there will be a requirement to attend conventions, forums and events
- Generous annual leave, plus bank holidays
- Private healthcare
- Excellent pension package through salary sacrifice
- Personal and professional growth
- Employee wellbeing β Wellbeing breaks, wellbeing hub access including exercise programmes, meditation guides, sleep stories and yoga.
We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture and have dedicated inclusion champions across the business to celebrate and promote our uniqueness. We also have a dedicated team of volunteers looking for innovative ways to give back as part of our commitments under our Corporate Social Responsibility. Since 2021, we have been recognised in the Best Companies listings, and again in 2026 have been awarded 2 stars for outstanding levels of engagement. We have also been awarded the Investors in People Gold accreditation.
If you are passionate about our purpose and would like an opportunity to make a valuable contribution to fraud prevention, we would like to hear from you.
Project Manager - JustMe (12 month FTC) in London employer: Cifas
Cifas is an exceptional employer that prioritises employee wellbeing and professional growth, offering a generous benefits package including private healthcare, a robust pension scheme, and flexible remote working arrangements. With a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion, Cifas fosters a collaborative work culture where employees can thrive and contribute meaningfully to the fight against fraud, all while enjoying a supportive environment that encourages innovation and personal development.