FILLED: New Financial Regulator - Programme Manager (DM4370), Up to 6 months, Canary Wharf Based, ~ £800 per day, Immediate start
New Financial Regulator - Programme
Manager
Interim,
Up to 6 months
Canary Wharf Based
~ £800 per day
Immediate start
This role is to deliver the programme
to support the new regulator for Payment Systems, which was created 1 April
2014, with its full operational launch planned for April 2015, when regulation
will start.
The new Payment Systems Regulator has
three objectives:
- to promote effective competition in the
markets for payment systems and the services they provide
- to promote development and innovation in
payment systems
- to ensure payment systems are operated and
developed in a way that takes account of and promotes the interests
of service users
It will be a competition-focused,
utility-style regulator, similar to other economic regulators such as Ofcom.
The programme manager is accountable
for the end-to-end delivery of a collection of projects within an overall
programme framework to the desired quality standards.
The candidate will be responsible for the following
activities:
- End to
end delivery of programmes through the delivery lifecycle from the point
of inception into the portfolio managing the dependencies and the
interfaces between the projects
- Lead
and manage the project teams for the duration of the project, motivate the
cross functional team assigned to the project (s); ensuring clarity of
objectives, plans and deliverables.
- Establishing
a Programme Board working with the Sponsor to ensure the
appropriate representation and terms of reference are in place to
govern the project through the lifecycle.
- Participate
in the selection process of partners as required, and
subsequently manage the chosen partner/s to deliver
programmes/projects within the area of responsibility.
- Deliver
all project artefacts to agreed scope, and agreed milestones and assure
quality standards using governance and review authorities as appropriate
e.g. Technology Design Authority.
- Line
Manage up to 5 permanent Associate members of staff providing coaching and
mentoring
Key skills and Requirements
Mandatory
- Proven
track record of successful delivery of large scale complex Programmes
- Proven
leadership and stakeholder management expertise, including experience of
managing and motivating matrix teams in Financial services.
- In-depth
knowledge of programme / project management methodologies based on for
example, Prince 2 and MSP (preferably qualified)
Understanding of Financial Services Regulation
roles@b2e-resourcing.co.uk