Business Project Manager, Banking (1 year contract, Extendable)
Summary
Manages technology change programs for a financial services organization, overseeing governance, requirements, and system integration across multi-team initiatives using Agile, Waterfall, and project management tools like Jira and Confluence.
We're looking for a Business Project Manager (1 year contract, strong potential for extension) to drive delivery of technology change programmes for a leading financial services organisation. You'll sit at the intersection of business, technology, and operations; owning governance, requirements, and system integration coordination across complex, multi-team initiatives.
What you'll do
- Own end-to-end delivery governance: planning, milestones, resourcing, reporting and RAID management
- Partner with Business, Risk/Compliance and Technology stakeholders to shape scope and success measures
- Gather and document requirements (epics, user stories, process flows) and drive traceability from requirements through to testing and deployment
- Facilitate discovery workshops, prioritisation sessions and process mapping
- Act as single point of contact for system interfaces/integrations - coordinating SIT/E2E testing, defect triage and cutover readiness across upstream/downstream teams
- Drive delivery cadence (stand-ups, checkpoints, governance routines) across Agile, Waterfall or hybrid models
What you'll bring
- 5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst and/or Project Manager delivering technology change within complex, multi-team programmes
- Strong systems integration/interface coordination background
- Solid requirements engineering skills — workshop facilitation, story writing, UAT/SIT support
- Excellent stakeholder management and written communication (crisp packs, minutes, decision logs)
- Comfortable across Agile, Waterfall and hybrid delivery
Nice to have
- Financial services/banking delivery experience in a regulated environment
- Exposure to service transition, production readiness or incident/problem management
- Experience working with distributed, cross-region teams
- Jira/Confluence, MS Project/Smartsheet, Excel/PowerPoint