FILLED: PERMANENT [ref# DB6042] Project Management Professional

Summary:

Our client is a well known Global Professional Services firm. They are looking for a Project Management Professional to join their Central Project Services function on a permanent basis. The successful candidate is likely to have worked for one of the leading consulting companies and has a passion for project management disciplines.

Background

The purpose of the Project Services function is to ensure that the firm's investment spend on projects and initiatives delivers maximum return on such investment (consistent with applicable scope, budget and time constraints); projects are well-managed; project risks are well-controlled, and change impacts are anticipated, communicated and implemented in such a way as to minimise disruption to the firm's business.
Projects Services is a global function and is focused on strategic projects - those which are complex and cross functional, often global.

Role:

This role is focused on the successful delivery of specific strategic projects within the firm and will include:

* Taking accountability for delivery as project/programme manager, reporting to the
Project Sponsor for that project, to deliver requirements on time and to budget

*Working with the Project Management Office to ensure proper governance, control
and monitoring of such projects

*Project set-up or turnaround of challenging projects

*Giving consultancy advice and assistance to project managers or sponsors of other
projects (e.g. change management, budgeting, communications, implementation),

*Supporting the building the firm's project management skills and expertise e.g.
via training or managing initiatives.

Types of projects may include:

* Establishing Outsourced / Shared service centre operations for business services
(back office) or client services (front office)

*Business performance/ process improvement projects including implementation of desktop
tools/technology

*Large technology lead projects e.g. new desktop environment

*Functional or global reorganisations

*Opening new country offices.

KEY skills/requirements:

* Extensive experience of Project Management discipline across a broad range of Process,
Organisational and Technology change projects

*Prince 2 Qualified or equivalent

*Experience in a Leading Consulting Firm

Logistics:

Rate: up to a six figure package
Location: The City
Approx duration: Permanent

FILLED: Interim [ref# DB6044] PMO Financial Reporting & Change Control Lead

Summary

Our client has embarked upon a £50m business and IT transformation programme following a recent corporate acquisition. They are looking for an experienced interim PMO to support the Portfolio Project Manager in estimating costs, determining project budgets and controlling costs through the lifecycle of the programme (circa 80-100 projects).


Deadline for responses

12 pm Wednesday 16th June. Responses submitted after this time may be subsequently considered but will miss the initial shortlist sent to the client.


Project Role
Reporting directly to the Portfolio Project Manager, this role will involve two main responsibilities:

1) Project Accounting - establishing the financial management process and techniques required to effectively establish and manage the project costs.

- Develop and maintain the Financial Management process to establish the budget
and control the project costs
- Establish and implement the Financial Management techniques and tools required
to control the project costs
- Support the Project Manager to establish the project budget and track the
costs
- Monitor project financial performance through the lifecycle and establish
cost variances
- Perform program financial reporting and forecasting to highlight overall
performance across each of the verticals

2) Change Control - establishing and maintaining the change management process supporting the Project Manager to analyse the change impact, estimate the costs and seeking approval from the workstream leads and Programme Director to proceed.
- Develop and maintain the Change Control process to enable scope control
- Develop and maintain the change request templates
- Support the Project Manager to perform the change control process
- Performs an impact assessment of the change request on the program across
all the verticals
- Maintains and overall change request log of all changes raised, decisions
to reject or proceed and the current status of the change

Skills and Experience

To apply for this role you will need to demonstrate the following experience and
attributes:

1) 5 years + PMO experience on £10M + transformation programmes

2) Experience of defining, implementing and maintaining project accounting processes on transformation programmes of similar size and complexity (complex, matrix-managed and challenging commercial environments)

3) Excellent communicator with the ability to build rapport with project managers and stakeholders at all levels

4) Delivery focussed, dependable, driven, capable of working under pressure to tight deadlines

Logistics
Rate: Up to £550 per day depending upon experience
Location: Sussex, Approx 30 mins from Victoria station
Duration: 6 months +
Start: 1-2 weeks

Please use the "Contact us" button above to email David Bowen, quoting "BLOG REF: DB6044" for more information.

FILLED: Interim [ref# DB6043] PMO Reporting and Resource Management Lead

Summary

Our client has embarked upon a £50m business and IT transformation programme following a recent corporate acquisition and require an experienced interim PMO to define, implement and maintain a full suite of programme reporting and resource management requirements to support this programme (circa 80-100 projects).

Deadline for responses

12 pm Wednesday 16th June. Responses submitted after this time may be subsequently considered but will miss the initial shortlist sent to the client.

Project Role

This role will report directly to the Portfolio Programme Manager and will involve two main responsibilities:

1) Programme Reporting: producing a single program level status dashboard identifying
the key achievements, risks, issues, financial status and schedule status across each of the transformation work streams.
This will involve defining, implementing and maintaining the overall programme reporting process, format, content and frequency of the reports and reviewing the quality of the inputs received to avoid inaccuracies.

2) Resource Management: in between reporting cycles you will also be required
to create, manage and maintain a program level resource capacity planner to support and assess resource demand vs supply decision making on the programme.
This role will have to work very closely with each business work stream lead to continually assess resource capacity and ensure any new projects approved have the resources available to deliver the business case.

Skills and Experience

To apply for this role you will need to demonstrate the following experience and
attributes:

1) 5 years + PMO experience on £10M + transformation programmes

2) Full lifecycle programme reporting and resource planning experience gained in complex, matrix-managed and challenging commercial environments

3) Excellent communicator with the ability to build rapport with project managers and stakeholders at all levels

4) Delivery focussed, dependable, driven, capable of working under pressure to tight deadlines

Logistics

Rate: Up to £550 per day depending upon experience
Location: Sussex, Approx 30 mins from Victoria station
Duration: 6 months +
Start: 1-2 weeks

Please use the "Contact us" button above to email David Bowen, quoting "BLOG REF: DB6043" for more information.

FILLED: PERMANENT[ref#DB6041] BPR Project Manager

Summary:

Our client, a global professional services law firm is looking for a business process project manager to join their team of internal consultants and analysts, tasked with creating and maintaining a world-class in-house business transformation and change capability.

Role and Responsibilities:

Working as a senior member of the team, you will have specific responsibility for
ensuring that the organisation's business processes are optimally engineered to
support the practice and its business service function.

The role will involve:

- gathering and analysing information about the more complex and critical cross-functional
and practice related business processes

- identifying recommendations for transforming or improving these processes and
shaping proposals to be made to senior Executives

- benchmarking processes against industry best practice and helping to create a
continuous improvement culture within the practice

- using your experience of successfully improving performance in previous business
tranformation programmes to coach and mentor project management teams on BPR / Business
change.

Mandatory skills / experience:

The following criteria are essential requirements for this role:

- 5 + years of successfully delivering process-led business transformation in world
class regional / global organisations

- Specialist knowledge of process improvement and change management / experience
of achieving process improvement in complex and change averse organisations

- Top tier consulting background

- Experienced project manager

Desirable skills / experience

The following skills and experience would be desirable for this role:

- Specialism in stakeholder engagement / benefits management

- Prior experience of implementing change in legal sector or professional services
industry

- SAP experience

Logistics

Salary: Up to 75K + bonus + excellent benefits (depending upon experience)
Location: City of London

FILLED: INTERIM [ref#DM4103] Senior Operations Finance Consultant

Our client is a FMCG manufacturing business looking for an Operations No 2 with a strong management accounting background. They are being brought in to strengthen the operations team in Management accounting and cost saving activities.

Role:

The role requires someone with deep Operations experience to look across the Supply chain, Logistics and Purchasing areas, and to uncover, measure and reduce the costs.
This is a Senior role which requires someone who has worked on significant programmes in this area. It will suit someone who has developed their career through a factory accountancy route and may have been a past Operations Director.

They will be someone who has:
• Deep operations experience (potentially a past director of operations)
• Expertise in operations management accounting
• Experience developing strategic plans for operations areas
• Strong business case experience for investment (assessment and prioritisation)
• The ability to think out of the box and create imaginative yet workable solutions
• A track record of productivity assessment, plan development, and implementation
of productivity plans
• Led a Project Management Office for a portfolio of operations projects
• Process manufacturing and food business experience is preferred

KEY skills/requirements:

* Very strong Commercial acumen with finance operations experience
* Attention to detail, able to create reports with integrity and measure the right things.
* Ability to manage a Portfolio of Cost reduction Programmes

Logistics:

Rate: This is a Senior role. Please state target rate.
Location: West London
Approx duration: 12 months role (permanent role is possible following this)

Please use the "Contact us" button above to email David Meggitt, quoting "BLOG REF: DM4103" for more information.