WHO WE ARE:
interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future.
We’ve been helping investors for over 25 years. We’ve seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We’re now the UK’s number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £55 billion and over 400,000 customers.
For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs, and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 40,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts, and ETFs.
We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights.
WHAT WE STAND FOR:
It’s simple … we want our customers to feel confident and in control, for interactive investor to go from strength to strength, and for ii to be a workplace where we can all thrive. Our customer-driven approach and bold values sit at the heart of this. We are honest, straight-talking, and transparent with our customers and our colleagues. We are decisive and take ownership of what we say and deliver. We are ambitious and passionate about what we believe is right for our customers, our teams, ourselves, and interactive investor.
PURPOSE OF ROLE:
The Project Manager role sits within the IT function of Interactive Investor and is accountable for leading a project team through the end to end project lifecycle, whilst maintaining overall responsibility for the delivery of a large project, or multiple medium sized projects.
This role is office based in Manchester, minimum 3 days per week in Manchester office, with occasional remote working
The Project Manager will be tasked with developing and delivering projects to support ii strategic direction, as well as creating and managing short/medium term goals, the role will also be responsible for developing budgets and project plans.
The assignments for a Project Manager will typically be large in size, including some cross functional engagement, with major business impact, and stakeholder management to Senior Management and Exec Level
Requirements
KEY RESPONSIBLITIES:
• Responsible for the delivery of Projects to scope, time, quality and budget.
• Responsible for production of all Project deliverables and documentation, adhering at all times to the ii Governance policies
• Proactively plans and manages the Projects, communicating variances to the key stakeholders
• Managing departments, people and projects at the same time whilst adhering to the ii Change Governance model
• Identifies all project dependencies and risks, ensuring they are effectively managed.
• Provides advice and guidance to senior business partners as required regarding best practices in Programme and Project management
• Control Project scope and any changes using establishes change management processes
• Ensure budgets are tracked and managed and that any identified deviations are escalated.
• Identify and request resources required to deliver Project
• Investigates, escalates and ensures that all Project issues are effectively resolved.
• Supports an ethos of “continuous improvement”
• Effectively and professionally manages vendor relationships
• Treat clients fairly at all times
• Maintain the first line of compliance defence by ensuring individual adherence to business processes and procedures that are designed to meet the regulatory standards set out in the relevant FCA rules and guidance
• Maintain the first line of defence by operating risk controls assigned to the individual
• Use the training and competence scheme to maintain the appropriate knowledge, skills and expertise to carry out the role competently
• Make informed risk decisions and effectively and credibly debate and challenge management recommendations within your role in line with the approved Risk Appetite Framework
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
• Proven experience in Programme management with a track record of delivery
• Strong stakeholder management skills to Senior Management and Exec Level
• Proven experience managing project teams
• Proven end to end business process knowledge
• Proven experience of designing and implementing business process improvement
• Detailed understanding of budgets and financial management, including associated reporting
• Knowledge and experience of the Financial Services industry
• Understanding of building and deploying software and associated transition to support activities
• Experience and understanding of MS Project, other MS software and multiple collaboration tools e.g. Confluence, Slack etc
• Wide range of technical skills to be able to bring together various technical teams in the production of a clear, achievable, cost-effective and supportable implementation
• Understanding of IT & Business Change practices, procedures and principles of project delivery and Project Management (Prince2) to enable the management of a large project, or multiple medium sized projects.
• Understanding of project delivery lifecycles using structured project waterfall and agile methodologies, and importantly how to integrate waterfall style deadlines within an agile organisation
• Project Management skills, use of structured, formal methods;
• Prince 2 practitioner, APMP or PMP qualified