Description

We are looking for an experienced Project Manager to lead an integrated delivery approach across platforms and operations. The role is suited to a Project Manager with experience in both operational delivery and technology-enabled business change. As the link between platform teams and business stakeholders, you will translate operational needs into platform outcomes, manage dependencies and keep readiness activity aligned to programme milestones.

Key Responsibilities

•    Own and maintain an integrated delivery plan covering platform readiness, operational readiness, governance milestones and launch-critical activity.
•    Act as the key coordinator between business, operations and platform stakeholders, ensuring business requirements are understood and supported through existing technology capabilities.
•    Translate operational and proposition requirements into clear delivery outcomes for platform partners and third-party providers where required.
•    Track milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, assumptions and decisions across workstreams, ensuring blockers are visible and actively managed.
•    Coordinate platform, proposition and operations activity to ensure client journeys, controls and service models are deliverable within the existing technology landscape.
•    Produce governance reporting for senior stakeholders, including status updates, RAID summaries, decision logs and escalation materials.
•    Lead operational and platform readiness planning, ensuring all launch prerequisites, controls, processes and support models are in place before go-live.
•    Support launch planning by coordinating readiness checkpoints, acceptance criteria, cutover considerations and post-launch support arrangements.
•    Scrum master
•    Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews and retrospectives.
•    Ensure the backlog is prioritised, refined and ready for delivery. 
•    Help the team define clear sprint goals and realistic delivery commitments.
•    Track sprint progress, velocity, capacity, blockers and delivery trends. 
•    Identify and remove impediments that affect the team's ability to deliver.
•    Promote Agile principles, continuous improvement and team accountability. 
•    Facilitate constructive discussions and help resolve delivery conflicts.
•    Use retrospectives to agree improvement actions and monitor their implementation.
•    Support accurate management of work items in Azure DevOps

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

•    Proven Project Management experience delivering complex business and operational change programmes within banking, wealth management, private banking or broader financial services.
•    Strong understanding of how business operations are enabled through technology platforms, even where no major technology build or implementation is taking place.
•    Ability to bridge the gap between platform teams and business stakeholders, translating operational requirements into practical platform-enabled solutions.
•    Experience working with core banking, wealth management, CRM, client servicing or operational workflow platforms.
•    Strong RAID, dependency, milestone and governance management capability.
•    Demonstrable experience leading operational readiness, business readiness and launch planning activities.
•    Comfortable engaging with senior stakeholders across operations, proposition, technology, governance and programme leadership functions.
•    Pragmatic, delivery-focused contractor who combines strong organisation skills with sufficient technical understanding to challenge, coordinate and drive outcomes across business and platform teams.
•    Proficiency in using AI-enabled productivity tools, such as Copilot, to improve efficiency, generate insight and support decision-making. Applies critical thinking and sound judgement when interpreting outputs, remains accountable for the quality and accuracy of their work
 

What We Value

At Investec we seek creative, talented people with passion, energy and stamina, who collaborate unselfishly.

We are committed to diversity and inclusion when recruiting internally and externally.