Senior Programme Manager
| Posting date: | 06 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £120,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 September 2025 |
| Location: | EC2R |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Talent Finder |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | EJWSI-016-22254 |
Summary
Senior Programme Manager | London | Full Time | £120,000+ per annum (dependent on experience) plus Bonus and Benefits
Our global client provides technology and investment solutions to the financial services industry, and is looking to hire a UK Programme Manager to work directly for the Head of UK Change. Your role will be to manage the implementation and conversion activities for new client firms, coordinating multiple project steams and managing their interdependencies. Stakeholder management, internal and most critically client-side, is key.
Are you the right person for the job?
• Minimum of ten years’ financial services experience in delivering change, ideally within Wealth Management/Private Banking
• An understanding of Wealth Management platforms and hands-on experience in delivering functional and client and data migration requirements
• Ability to deliver across multiple methodologies – agile and waterfall - with a proactive and self-starter mentality
• Experienced in managing the full project lifecycle, from defining and prioritising requirements, managing the change process, delivery methodology, project management office tasks, resourcing, budgets, MI, reporting and governance
• Strong stakeholder management ideally with experience of managing client-side stakeholders
• Strong communication and presentation skills
What will your role look like?
Pre-Sales/Pre-Project:
• Assisting the technical sales in mapping out prospective clients’ business models to align them to the client’s platform and services, and defining the implementation programme approach
• Representing the Change function in meetings with prospective clients to map out implementation approaches and methods
Programme Management:
• Being accountable for multiple projects/programme of work to implement client firms onto the client’s platform and operational/supporting services
• Implementing an appropriate programme structure – aligned to Group best practice – to oversee these deliveries
• Ensuring effective quality assurance and the overall integrity of the programme - focusing inwardly on the internal consistency of the programme, and outwardly on its coherence with the firm’s wider programme whilst ensuring all internal & applicable external corporate, technical and specialist standards are met
• Where required, managing the programme's budget, monitoring expenditure and costs against delivered and realised benefits as the programme progresses
• Designing and communicating effective programme, communications and stakeholder plans and ensuring communication channels are fully effective throughout the implementation lifecycle
• Coordinating and leading programme level internal and joint steering committee meetings
• Managing a core group of people within the Client Change team in the programme to ensure day-to-day project activities are completed to time and quality
• Facilitating the appointment of individuals to project teams and overseeing the wider allocated resources to each project delivery
• Ensuring the delivery of new products or services for client firms is to the appropriate level of quality, on time and within budget, in accordance with the programme plan and programme governance arrangements
• Managing third-party contributions to the programme (as required)
• Manage dependencies and the interfaces between project streams, risks, issues, and other project management office -related tasks
• Coordination with other market unit implementation leads to ensure all implementation plans are fully integrated and cohesive for all units involved
• Partnership with client relationship management and client service teams to ensure clean hand-offs to ‘business as usual’ after go-live
• Building effective client relationships throughout the programme
Other:
• Identifying and delivering continuous improvements within the UK Change team and wider organisation
• Identifying future sales opportunities with clients where business needs align with the client’s products and services
• Assisting Client Relationship Managers with technical and strategic business initiatives to ensure long-term requirements are consistently aligned with future technical and service solutions
• Adopting a leadership role within the Change team, assisting in the career development and mentoring of team members
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