Project Manager (Technology)

Salary: National ranging from £51,200 to £64,000 and London from £56,400 to £70,000
Are you interested in joining a team that is responsible for the successful delivery of regulatory and technology change projects within the FCA?
The team/department
This Project Manager role sits within the DTI (Data, Technology, and Innovation) & Ops (Operations) Change Directorate, which is responsible for the successful and safe delivery of the FCA's Change Portfolio, comprising of technological changes which are of strategic importance to the FCA, the Markets we regulate and the Consumers we protect.
The technology projects and programmes at the FCA vary in size and complexity, from small discrete projects to large, multi-year, pieces of work, the role of the Project Manager is crucial to the success and outcomes of these initiatives.
Some examples include large CRM implementations, contract retenders, cloud data migrations, organisation wide resiliency programmes and replacing tooling capabilities. The work is varied and challenging.
What you will be doing (the role)

• Successfully deliver projects from inception to agreed business outcomes, following FCA quality standards and within agreed baselines of time, budget and scope


• Managing budgets between £250k and several million pounds in value


• Managing cross functional teams - internal, contractors, consultants, 3rd party partners


• Building and managing stakeholder relationships across the FCA, managing expectations, defining and agreeing scope, facilitating key decisions


• Developing the project plan, deliverables and milestones to successfully deliver the business outcomes, identifying and sourcing resources to achieve time and cost expectations


• Resolving dependencies, issues and risks within delivery, and ensuring the FCA Project Management Policies, Standards and Methods and Governance Framework are adhered to


What you will get from the role

• Exposure to FCA Senior Leadership Team, with opportunity to influence how business priorities are delivered within the organisation


• Stimulating, innovative and experimental work to solve the biggest challenges facing financial regulation and the opportunity to make a tangible impact on the organisation


• Exposure to new ideas, opportunity to increase your knowledge and understanding of regulation and new technologies in Financial Regulation


Our competitive flexible benefits scheme gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifecycle. You can use this allowance to purchase additional benefits such as dental or cycle to work or you have the option top up your base salary by taking this as cash.
Core benefits that you will receive as standard are:

• 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays


• Private healthcare with Bupa


• A non-contributory Pension of at least 8% of basic salary each month (there are several contribution levels that increase depending on your age - up to 12% a month once you reach age 35)


• Life assurance of eight times your basic salary


• Income protection, We welcome applications from candidates who are looking for flexible arrangements. Many of our staff work flexibly including working part-time, staggered hours, and job shares. We can't promise to give you exactly what you want but we won't judge you for asking.
  
  Proven experience of managing successful business and technology change projects in Financial Services or for a government or regulatory body, managing employees and 3rd parties in a matrix, from inception through to end of warranty / exit criteria achieved


• Evidence of shaping business ideas and initiatives into detailed project plans for multi-workstream delivery to achieve business outcomes


• Demonstrable evidence of planning and controlling project delivery


Essential

• Experienced at leading people through structural, procedural, and cultural change, gaining commitment to new ways of working


• Ability to build working relationships with sponsors, accountable executives, key business stakeholders and business subject matter experts (SME)


• Politically savvy, able to balance conflicting strategies, priorities, and personalities, resilient and tenacious to ensure delivery whilst managing conflict


• Analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills, identifying and managing dependencies, risks and issues to ensure successful delivery


• Excellent communication skills, able to engage with all levels of the organisation, providing timely and meaningful communications to update status, share progress and manage expectations of stakeholders


• Able to use influencing and negotiating techniques
  
  The FCA regulates the conduct of nearly 45,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. We do this to make sure markets work well for individuals, businesses and the economy as a whole. For more information on what we do, our three-year strategy can be found

here.
The FCA's Values & Diversity
Our ambition is to cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation - one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better regulation.
The FCA is committed to achieving greater diversity across all levels of the organisations. Given this, we particularly welcome applications from women, disabled and minority ethnic candidates for our senior associate role.
Flexible working