IT Delivery Manager - Payments/Platforms

My prestigious financial services client is looking for an experienced Delivery Manager to my clients Payments & Platform team to work on a variety of IT delivery projects on a1yr FTC basis.

Initial business change projects include:

• ISO20021 Changing the payments system
• Payments dashboard project
• Card related changes - VISA, Click to Play

Essential Skills

• 5 - 10 years in a similar delivery manager role (This is not a consultant role)
• A change management qualification (eg APM, PRINCE2 etc.)
• Experience of delivering multiple high profile and complex changes that have a technical and a business impact specifically in the payments space.
• ISO20021 knowledge and experience
• Used to working with both agile and waterfall methodology
• Demonstrable recent experience with SWIFT related changes
• Understanding of the SWIFT payment infrastructure
• Experience in delivering payment APIs
• Experience of payments related changes in FS industry
• Managing third party relationships
• Experience with working with Jira/confluence
• Must have worked projects on and end to end basis
• Supplier management experience
• Proven experience of delivering complex projects with multiple complex/high impact workstreams.
• Proven ability to communicate with and influence senior stakeholders facilitating efficient decision making on projects.
• Proven experience of delivering complex projects with multiple complex/high impact workstreams.
• The ability to apply change management skills to ensure effective project governance and delivery.

Key Tasks

• Contribute to the delivery of business and technology strategy through effectively performing the role of delivery manager on multiple concurrent payment related projects.
• Support the successful delivery and adoption of change across the organisation.
• Support Payment platform manager through adherence to the project life cycle (waterfall or agile delivery)
• Support the project reporting and governance process, through reporting in via the transformation manager and PMO.
• Ensuring that solutions holistically cover the changes required across systems, people and processes.
• Lead change initiatives, ensuring delivery is of high quality and aligned to the strategic goals of the bank.
• Ability to deliver change which ensures inclusivity across the business. This will be achieved through regular communication within the business to implement change effectively.
• Deliver change in line with governance expectations, in the form of project documentation and process.
• Provide challenge to ensure that Change being delivered is aligned to the Vision and strategy of the Bank, as well as providing the most effective cost solutions.
• Act as a 'bridge' between the business and IT, ensuring there is effective communication between both.

Role Responsibilities:

• Fulfil the role of Delivery Manager on change projects, for which there are likely to be multiple concurrent projects at any one time.
• Ensure the completion of key project documentation (business cases, RAID logs) to a high degree of quality on all projects.
• Manage project workstreams to ensure effective delivery of changes.
• Ensure the effective delivery of changes managed, including business and technical readiness.
• Create clear lines of communication, with the aim of providing clear updates on progress, risks and issues to project stakeholders and interested parties.
• Manage project budgets and provide effective resource management, applicable to the project(s)
• Stakeholder management, ranging from Partner and Senior Management to all levels within the Business.
• Contribute to the definition of innovative, cost-effective solutions in order to delivery valuable outcomes to the business.
• Help to facilitate and drive an agile development methodology, where appropriate, focusing on continuous quality delivery to the business.
• Work with external suppliers to ensure the organisation receives a set of quality goods and service from our vendors and partners.
• Build strong and effective relationships with other teams in technology to ensure you can efficiently delivery change within the organisation.

My client offers a hybrid working model with you required to be on site two days a week in Central London.

This is a great opportunity with a great benefits package included.

Benefits include

28 days holiday/20% non contributory pension (10% can be taken as salary top up)/Private medical insurance/Life assurance/Subsidised premium staff dining room/Season ticket loan/plus a range of other flexible benefits

I have interview slots ready to go so get in touch ASAP to find out more detail about this exciting opportunity

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