Project Manager (ICARA & Audit)

Specific Role Responsibilities

Delivery Management

• Manage the delivery of the project through the full project lifecycle from initiation through to implementation.

• Running relevant governance forums related to the ICARA.

• Production of ICARA governance forum management information on a weekly basis. This will also include agenda setting and action tracking.

• Escalation of any risks and issues to relevant governance forums and maintenance of RAID logs.

• Creation of governance forum minutes.

• Ensuring resource management is sufficiently monitored throughout the lifecycle of the ICARA the audits and relevant other projects including escalating capacity issues and holiday tracking.

• Create and maintain an end to end ICARA project plan that delivers the agreed scope of the project to time budget and quality criteria.

• Create and maintain an end to end audit plan that delivers a full year end audit to time budget and quality criteria.

• Running weekly meetings with action owners identified in the ICARA Plan to ensure oversight of actions is maintained and delivery dates are adhered to.

• Have strong relationships and take accountability for working with all FNZ Directorates/areas to agree scope timelines and artefacts in order to ensure delivery of the project in line with overall agreed plan.

• Take accountability for the overall estimating process for a project and work collaboratively with Regulatory Finance and other relevant project stakeholders to estimate the work effort to deliver the project scope within the agreed timescales and budgets.

• Understand the FNZ products and technology building the ability to identify and manage risks issues assumptions and dependencies through the full project lifecycle.

• Build mitigation plans for all risks and issues and take ownership for ensuring these mitigation plans are executed or escalatedas is appropriate.

• Have strong relationships with 3rd party suppliers: ensuring that they are engaged appropriately and that contracts are in place and managed to ensure the required outcomes for FNZ.

• Undertake post implementation reviews and ensure that lessons learned are captured and shared with the rest of the PM community.

Team Leadership

• Motivate mentor and encourage project team members to utilise themselves to their full potential and take accountability for their assigned work.

• Create a culture of continuous improvement on the project support process improvement initiatives and identify new process improvements.

• Swiftly escalate and ensure mitigants are established for any conflicts within the project team and/or related stakeholders both within and outside FNZ.

• Be an active member of the PM community within FNZ contributing to team sessions supporting other Junior PMs and sharing best practice and lessons learned.

• Knowledge of the regulatory environment in which FNZ operates be responsible for managing the impact of all regulatory changes and ensure future change is built into project plans so FNZ clients have a compliant platform.

Experience required

Industry Knowledge

• Minimum of 4 years managing large projects at large institutions.

• An understanding of prudential regulation (ICARA ICAAP).

• An understanding of the regulatory environment FNZ operate within.

• Managing 3rd party suppliers.

• Experience of managing stakeholders to executive levels.

• Financial Services experience preferably in relation to investment/wealth/life and/or pensions products and the markets in which FNZ and our customers operate.

Required Knowledge and Skills

• Relevant qualification or equivalent experience;

• Confident and able to take initiative given client and delivery focused environment;

• Independent self-directing and delivery focused working style;

• Commercially aware;

• Excellent organisational administration and time management skills;

• Good team communication skills confident in dealing with internal and external clients;

• Highly developed written and oral communication skills;

• Confident in managing and directing senior stakeholders as well as third-party consultants and contractors.

About FNZ Culture

Our culture is what drives us. Its at the heart of who we are and everything we do. Its what inspires excites and moves us forward. Our ambition is to create a culture for growth one that opens up limitless opportunities for our employees customers and the wider world. At FNZ we know that great impact is only possible with great teamwork.

Thats why we value the strength and diversity of thought in our global team.

The FNZ Way is the cornerstone of what we do. It is comprised of four values that set the standard for how everyone at FNZ interacts with each other with our customers and with all our diverse stakeholders around the world.

obsessed for the long-term

big and make an impact

4. Act now and own it all the way

Challenge commit and win together

Read more about The FNZ Way and our values: from day one you will work alongside exceptional multicultural teams - experts in their respective fields - who will inspire and challenge you to make your greatest impact.

• Be part of a highly successful rapidly growing global business that is leading the delivery of financial services via cloud computing and partners with some of the worlds largest companies;

• Working in a flexible and agile way that meets the needs of the business and personal circumstances;

• Remuneration significant financial rewards and career advancement is based on individual contribution and business impact rather than tenure or seniority;

• We provide global career opportunities for our best employees at any of our offices in the UK EU US Canada South Africa and APAC.

Commitment to Equal Opportunities

At FNZ we recognise that diversity equity and inclusion are important factors contributing to our success. We embrace the unique perspective and capabilities of our current and future employees which will help us continue to drive innovation and achieve our business goals. Recruitment decisions at FNZ are made in a non-discriminatory manner without regard to gender ethnicity/race faith age nationality gender identity sexual orientation marital status socio-economic background disability or military veteran status where all applicants and employees are valued and respected.

In addition we want to ensure accessibility needs are well supported if you require specific support please advise us.

If this role sounds like a great fit wed love to hear from you. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and the advert may close early depending on volume.

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