Project, Programme, Portfolio Manager – Digital Transformation (Financial Services)

Overview

In this role within PA’s Delivery Team, you will drive digital and technology-enabled transformations for financial services clients, from strategy through delivery, shaping high-impact outcomes. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to modernize platforms, migrate to cloud, and enhance customer experiences at scale. You’ll operate in a fast-paced, advisory-capable environment focused on measurable business value and transformation delivery. This is an opportunity to advance client capability and delivery excellence within a renowned centre of delivery expertise.

Pay / Benefits

• Health and lifestyle perks including private healthcare
• 25 days annual leave (plus Christmas Eve half day) and option to buy 5 more
• Generous pension scheme
• Community and charity initiatives
• Annual performance-based bonus
• PA share ownership

Responsibilities

• Lead large-scale digital transformation programmes from strategy through implementation and value realisation
• Deliver complex technology-enabled change across banking, insurance, wealth management or financial market infrastructure organisations
• Lead digital product, platform or customer experience transformation initiatives
• Deliver data, analytics, AI or automation programmes that drive measurable business outcomes
• Manage technology delivery involving cloud, applications, infrastructure or platform modernisation
• Establish agile delivery models, product organisations or scaled agile ways of working
• Lead multi-disciplinary teams including business, technology, data and architecture stakeholders
• Translate business strategy into executable transformation roadmaps and delivery plans
• Deliver transformation in highly regulated environments while balancing innovation and risk
• Build client capability through PMOs, Transformation Offices and delivery excellence functions

Key requirements

• Experience in helping financial institutions modernise through digital, data and technology-enabled change
• Ability to engage credibly with business and technology executives
• Experience delivering measurable benefits and business outcomes
• Outstanding stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-changing environments
• Commercial awareness and consulting experience
• Passion for innovation, technology and solving complex client challenges
• Experience leading at least three of: large-scale transformation programmes, tech-enabled change across financial sectors, digital product/platform/customer experience, data/AI/automation programmes, cloud/platform modernisation, agile at scale, multi-disciplinary team leadership, strategy-to-delivery roadmaps, regulated environments, or building client capability

• Stakeholder management
• Influencing skills
• Commercial awareness
• Cloud Migration
• Cloud-Native Transformation
• Data and AI Transformation

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