Project Manager

About us

Over the last 18 years, we have helped over a million satisfied customers move and manage their money. Our award-winning product portfolio allows our customers to make low-cost multi-currency payments across various payment products. From travel money to transfers, currency hedging, to expense management, we are focused on a single goal of making it easy for our customers to manage and move their money.

As a business, we are committed to delivering value to our customers through the combination of advanced payments technology and personal expert service. We’re doing this by hiring exceptional people and are now looking for a Project Manager to join our team.

Within our offices in London, Chester and Los Angeles and Europe, Equals comprises of three business lines and brands - Equals Money, FairFX and CardOneMoney. You will join a very close-knit, talented and supportive team from various backgrounds who believe that bringing different perspectives together helps us understand our customers’ needs. United, by one thing, making money management straightforward and cost-effective for our customers.

About the role

A Project Manager at the Equals Group is an organised methodical person dedicated to planning, managing and monitoring the delivery of projects to ensure they deliver the required project outputs within agreed tolerances and standards. With the delivery of key projects within the business, a Project Manager would be expected to drive continuous improvement whilst stretching themselves and learning new skills, working closely with other Project Managers in the Projects Team, as well as a wide range of project stakeholders including members of the Executive team, Senior Leadership team, Departmental Managers and external customers.

An ambitious, organised person with the ability to utilise and tailor project management methodologies to suit the specific project needs whilst always applying the required level of governance. This person will be expected to produce a high standard of project documentation and status reports and regularly provide this information to the direct line manager, Head of Project Management and other senior leaders across the business.

About you

We believe that certain skills are essential in order to be successful in this role and these are detailed below. You may not have all the other skills we have outlined as desirable; we understand that and will still welcome your application. We will carry out individual interviews for shortlisted candidates and assess who is best suited for the role after we have discussed everything with you.

Responsibilities

• As a project manager you are ultimately responsible for managing the successful completion of projects from initiation to completion to achieve business goals aligned with Group strategy, including the identification and management of risks and issues which can impact on project delivery.
• Review and define project scope by obtaining definition from each stakeholder in terms of what they are looking to achieve as part of the project.
• Manage and deliver projects.
• Carry out detailed impact assessments, working with stakeholders to identify key processes either impacted or required by the project to ensure they are fully defined, documented and implemented.
• Maintain project documentation in an organised and clear way, using project management best practices, standards and guidelines.
• Maintain detailed project plans which include scope, roles/responsibilities, tasks/schedule, resource, and dependencies.
• Track costs and timelines against the original plan foreseeing any potential issues and risks to the project.
• Identify and resolve issues and risks using the adopted methodology detailing mitigations, controls and identify any further actions required.
• Communicate effectively on project delivery timeline, milestones and RAG status to the project team, stakeholders, senior management and steering committees. Communicating in language that is appropriate to the audience.
• Schedule and lead project meetings, including preparation of meeting agendas and minutes. Tracking action items that arise from meetings to ensure completion of those tasks.
• Ability to use a variety of project methodologies (Waterfall/Agile) to support the best outcome for the project deliverable against time and cost.
• Keeping up to date with industry project management standards and applying these where applicable in the role.
• Ensure that statutory training requirements are met.
• To undertake any other reasonable duties that may be required from time to time by the Effective Management of Equals Money Europe SA.

Accountabilities

A Project Manager is accountable for meeting all requirements of a project. Accountable to the Executive Sponsor of the project in question and/or steering committee (where applicable).

Essential Skills

• Previous demonstrable experience in project management.
• Previous experience operating in regulated financial services.
• Demonstrable experience in larger operationally complex projects with multi departmental stakeholders.
• High level of organisational skills and a clear ability to leverage project management tools to produce and maintain detailed project plans outlining timelines, dependencies and major milestones to drive projects and produce a high standard of project reporting.
• Strong communication, presentation and interpersonal skills with clear ability to adapt communication style.
• Ability to work independently and self motivate to ensure project management tasks are delivered at a high standard.
• Ability to drive others to ensure project delivery.
• Excellent time management and administrative skills.
• Confident in being able to challenge the status quo.
• Previous experience with Agile Project Management methodologies with ability to adapt where approach where required.
• Fluent in English and French; knowledge of Dutch is a plus.
• A role model for our values: Make it happen. Succeed together. Be the customer. Go beyond.

Desirable Skills

• Previous experience in the management of governed/regulated projects.
• Minimum of 5 years experience in project management.
• Project Management certification.
• Previous experience in management of AI projects or delivery of customer facing and/or colleague enabling products that are enabled by AI, utilising Machine Learning.
• ‘Can do’ attitude.
• Evidence lessons learned from previous projects and ability to apply learnings.

Our investment in you

We welcome people into Equals and desire to grow and develop our talented teams. We believe in teamwork and celebrating our successes. We strive to embrace our values. We want to put you in the driving seat of your career and achieve your full potential through growth opportunities and developmental support.

When you join Equals, we aim to help you to get more out of your career. We will also offer you the following benefits;

Benefits

• A competitive salary benchmarked against a peer group.
• 25 days holiday per year + your birthday off
• Opportunities for progression, development and learning new skills - £250 towards the cost of learning & development.
• Free onsite Nuffield Health gym & pool (London) and discounted gym membership elsewhere.
• GetActive with Aviva - Health and Wellbeing discounts on services and products.
• Interbank currency rates on travel money and international transfers.
• Bupa Private Healthcare.
• Free Eye Test and £50 up to the cost of glasses.
• EAP Service - Mental Health Services.
• Life Assurance Policy - x3 annual salary.
• Contributory pension scheme.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Season Ticket Loans.
• Enhanced Parental Policies.
• Complimentary tea, coffee, soft drinks and fruit.
• We operate a hybrid working arrangement where possible.
• Where possible we offer the opportunity to work flexibly and the opportunity to balance some remote working with time in the office collaborating, taking part in events and developing the social connections that make working with us rewarding.

Equals strives to create a workplace where we can all be ourselves. We believe in inclusion, equality and the power of diversity, so you’ll be encouraged to bring your unique perspectives and experiences, and help us understand what you need to do your best work.