Senior Project Manager – Banking Migration Programme
Fully Remote | Six-Month Contract | Inside IR35
Henderson Scott is supporting a global consultancy delivering a new banking programme.
We are looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager with a strong background in consulting, outsourcing or managed-service delivery. This is a hands-on delivery role involving complex software, cloud and data-migration workstreams within a regulated environment.
The initial contract is for six months, with significant potential for extension due to the length and scale of the wider programme.
Key Responsibilities
Manage complex technology projects and workstreams from initiation through to implementation.
Deliver software, application, cloud and data-migration initiatives.
Establish and maintain robust project governance, plans, RAID logs, dependencies and change controls.
Manage distributed delivery teams, third-party suppliers and consultancy partners.
Own project budgets, forecasting, actuals, resource costs and supplier spend.
Identify opportunities to improve resource utilisation and control delivery costs.
Provide clear financial and delivery reporting to senior stakeholders.
Coordinate testing, cutover, implementation and operational readiness.
Ensure projects deliver against agreed scope, timescales, cost and quality expectations.
Essential Experience
Extensive experience as a Senior Project Manager, Technical Project Manager or Delivery Manager.
A strong background working for a consultancy, outsourcing provider, systems integrator or managed-service organisation.
Proven software or application delivery experience.
Cloud delivery or migration experience, ideally involving Azure or AWS.
Experience delivering data, application, infrastructure or customer migration programmes.
Strong project financial-management experience, including budget ownership, forecasting, actuals, resource costs and cost control.
Experience managing suppliers, offshore teams and distributed delivery resources.
Strong governance, RAID, dependency and formal change-control experience.
Excellent stakeholder-management and communication skills.
Desirable Experience
Banking or wider financial-services experience.
Delivery within a highly regulated environment.
Large-scale customer or account migration.
Cutover, service transition and operational-readiness experience.
Experience managing commercial agreements, statements of work and supplier performance.
This is a fully remote contract, although occasional travel may be required for key programme meetings.
If you are interested, please apply with your latest CV and contact details.
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