Aberdeen
Financial Services
SeniorProjectManager
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“Senior Project Manager at Aberdeen. Skills: Project delivery, Project governance, Budget management, Stakeholder management. Lead a cross-functional team. Sustain and transform Adviser business”
What You'll Achieve.
ensuring delivery is to time, budget and quality; ensure the delivered workstream / project meets the needs of the business; agreed quality standards have been met
Industry & Context.
Problem solving - ability to understand the challenges their team are facing and help them find the route to resolution; Ability to quickly assess a situation and determine the correct next steps and priority tasks for the team to focus on
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Track record of large-scale project delivery in Financial Services, Third party delivery experience, Demonstrated project governance and budget management, dependency management across multiple workstreams
Nice to Have
Experienced in managing complex interdependent deliveries across multiple workstreams and vendors, Experience of delivering both technical and business change, Commercial awareness, communication and stakeholder management skills with experience presenting at a senior level and having difficult but constructive conversations with senior stakeholders, Problem solving - ability to understand the challenges their team are facing and help them find the route to resolution, Ability to quickly assess a situation and determine the correct next steps and priority tasks for the team to focus on, Relevant Project / Programme / Portfolio / PMO Management qualification(s) e.g. , PRINCE2
What You'll Do.
Lead a cross-functional team
Sustain and transform Adviser business
Manage project delivery to time
Champion project management discipline
Establish effective project organisation structure
Manage budget and expenditure
Manage relationships with stakeholders and customers
Set and manage quality of deliverables
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Lead a cross-functional team of change professionals; Manage relationships with stakeholders (including Exec Stakeholders) and key customers; Reporting and presenting on workstream / project status to the Programme, Steering Committee, stakeholders (including Exec Stakeholders) and senior management
Communication Scope
reporting; presenting; senior level presentations; difficult conversations
Process & Methodology
planning, resourcing, scheduling, monitoring, reporting, risk management, assumption management, issue management, dependency management, project governance, budget management, financial control, transparent reporting, quality standards
Full Job Description
_****Job Description****_ At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK’s leading Wealth & Investments group. Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry’s best talent. Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders, and society. We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent. Aberdeen comprises three businesses, interactive investor (ii), Investments, and Adviser, each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients’ evolving needs. This role sits in our Adviser business which provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to bring value for their businesses and their clients. The Adviser Change team is a specialised function supporting the development and transformation of Aberdeen’s award winning open-architecture platforms; Wrap and Elevate; as well as the broader change agenda of Aberdeen’s Adviser business. As a Senior Project Manager, you will report into the Programme Management team and will lead a cross-functional team of change professionals to both sustain and radically transform our end-to-end Adviser business. **Key Responsibilities;** * Responsibility for a large project, workstream(s), or release within a programme, ensuring delivery is to time, budget and quality * Applies and champions the appropriate project management discipline, i.e. planning, resourcing, scheduling, monitoring, reporting and risk, assumption, issue and dependency management * Establishes an effective project organisation structure * Responsible for the development and management of budg
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