Position Description:

Put yourself at the centre of the digital revolution as a Project Manager, motivating highly talented Agile teams to deliver complex projects that matter.

Our Project Managers are trusted to work closely with a wide range of clients on exciting projects with real-world purpose and impact.

CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 2023 and has been named one of the ‘World’s Best Employers’ by Forbes magazine. We offer a competitive salary, excellent pension, private healthcare, plus a share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching) which makes you a CGI Partner not just an employee.

We are committed to inclusivity, building a genuinely diverse community of tech talent and inspiring everyone to pursue careers in our sector, including our Armed Forces, and are proud to hold a Gold Award in recognition of our support of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant. Join us and you’ll be part of an open, friendly community of experts. We’ll train and support you in taking your career wherever you want it to go.

Our Financial Services customer requires a Senior Project manager to join an Acquiring Solutions team. You will be managing several deliverables and be involved with large Programmes for Clients as well as strategic solutions for Acquiring.

The Technical Project Manager is responsible for driving complex, high priority, projects, or component phases of larger programs. Accountable for delivering projects on time, within budget, and within scope. This individual will lead and coordinate cross-functional, cross-departmental, cross-company teams that are responsible for all aspects of a project, from initiation to closure. The Senior Project Manager exemplifies strong initiative and management skills.

Please note: due to the nature of our customers projects, all suitable applicants will need to work on site for 4 days per week so please consider when applying.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

- Ensures project methodologies, project delivery processes, and implementation management processes are followed. This includes managing and driving: Project Schedule, Risk and Issue Management and Scope Change Management.
- Drive delivery of complex projects - Lead and coordinate cross-functional, cross-departmental, cross-company teams that are responsible for all aspects of a project, from initiation to closure, holding the team accountable for meeting deadlines, achieving performance goals and results.
- Manage multiple projects working with the cross functional teams/leads to ensure smooth delivery to time, cost and budget and communicate progress of the projects tailoring communication style to internal and external stakeholders.
- Facilitates/manages project communications and stakeholder management including client and project team expectations and lead key steering calls to provide status updates to the senior management team.
- Drive a good working relationship with internal teams including the Product organisation to ensure we deliver to committed timeline, and also identify key improvements to project delivery to ensure we exceed customer expectations.
- Good problem-solving attributes when issues arise and drives appropriate mitigation actions to ensure key milestones are met.
- Manages the project budget. This includes understanding and validating estimates, cost variance tracking, and managing project resources effectively.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

- Project Management qualification e.g. PMP, Prince.
- Experience in technology and the payments industry.
- Knowledge of Payments (e.g. Acquiring, Cards, Issuing, Credit, Debit, POS, SWIFT, BACS, CHAPS, ISO, SEPA etc.)
- Great people skills – you will be working with a variety of technical, business and product personnel at junior, mid and senior levels of the organisation.
- High quality standards – we pride ourselves on the accuracy and quality of our delivery.
- Ability to anticipates client needs and recommends solutions to address them, as well as being able to responds quickly and effectively to client requests and issues; escalating issues where appropriate is crucial.
- A proven track record of delivering high complex projects in a geographically dispersed business with expertise in project management methodology and demonstrated experience in Senior Project Management roles.
- An initiative-taker, who is also able to work well in a team, partnering with others to achieve common goals within the agreed timeline, quality and to budget.
- Basic understanding of practical financial issues and commercial fundamentals and a keenness to seek opportunities to improve profitability, reduce waste, and minimise expense within your remit.
- Technical competency with Microsoft project, Microsoft applications i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Jira

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Skills:

• Banking
• Payment Management
• Prince2
• Prince2
• Project Management

What you can expect from us:

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Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.