Junior Project Manager in City of London

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Base pay range: up to £400/day (Outside IR35) – hybrid (2‑3 days on site) in London.

Responsibilities

• Delivery Planning & Coordination
• Support Delivery Leads in building and maintaining detailed project plans and milestones
• Coordinate project meetings, prepare documentation, capture decisions and manage follow‑up
• Maintain RAID logs, dependency registers and action trackers
• Support production of governance materials (Steering Committee and Working Group packs)
• Ensure documentation and artefacts are version‑controlled and auditable
• Provide weekly progress updates to the Delivery Lead and PMO
• Update key regulatory board materials (e.g., DPO, CCO and Board Risk Committee)

Desired Skills and Experience

Delivery Planning & Coordination

• Strong JIRA experience
• Support Delivery Leads in building and maintaining detailed project plans and milestones
• Coordinate project meetings, prepare documentation, capture decisions and manage follow‑up
• Maintain RAID logs, dependency registers and action trackers
• Support production of governance materials (Steering Committee and Working Group packs)

Business Readiness & Implementation

• Develop and maintain readiness checklists and cutover plans
• Coordinate training, communication and transition activities with business teams
• Support go‑live preparation, including pre‑implementation testing coordination and readiness validation
• Participate in post‑implementation reviews and lessons learned
• Drive out conceptual discussions into clearly defined principles, approaches and dependencies

Governance & Reporting

• Support adherence to HTB’s Change Delivery Framework and governance standards
• Ensure documentation and artefacts are version‑controlled and auditable
• Provide weekly progress updates to the Delivery Lead and PMO
• Support in the production and updating of key regulatory board updates (e.g., DPO, CCO and Board Risk Committee)

Stakeholder Management

• Liaise with internal stakeholders across Operations, IT, Risk, Finance, Compliance and Product teams
• Comfortable running workshops to elicit information, decisions and opinions
• Ensure accurate, timely information sharing across workstreams
• Maintain awareness of key dependencies and elevate where appropriate

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Contract

Job function

Finance

Industries

Banking

About Korn Ferry

Korn Ferry unleashes potential in people, teams and organizations. We help our clients design optimal organization structures, roles and responsibilities, hire the right people and advise on how to reward and motivate their workforce. To learn more, visit www.kornferry.com.

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Location: City of London, England, United Kingdom.

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