Project Manager, 6 Month Fixed Term Contract

London, UK OR Remote | 💰 £71,100 - £82,500 Benefits | Hear from the team ✨

⭐ Our Finance team

We are looking for a Project Manager on our Group Delivery Team to support the wider business with the implementation of key strategic initiatives such as running the Monzo-wide company goals process on a 6 month fixed term contract.  

You will be responsible for defining business outcomes, translating this into scope that can be delivered through programme plans, and engaging stakeholders across Monzo to ensure scope is delivered within time, cost and quality parameters.  

🔑 You’ll play a key role by…

• Leading from the front by being the key point of contact and bringing it all together for important projects, such as (not a full list):
• Scope - defining, breaking it down, getting buy-in and prioritisation 
• Plans - baselining project plans, managing activity flow metrics, identifying critical path and dependencies, proactively resolve crunchpoints before they eventuate
• Budgets - allocating spend, forecasting and tracking actuals, proactively preventing over-spend and managing contingencies 
• Benefits - ensure benefits are defined, quantifiable and are achieved 
• Resourcing - secure resources (internal and external) - capacity and capability, virtual team management (values and culture, ways of working, feedback etc)
• Stakeholders and governance - ensure clear roles and responsibilities, early escalation, clear decision making and constructively holding stakeholders accountable for their activities
• Risks and issues - reactively and proactively manage risks and issues within risk and issue management framework and policies
• Produce regular reporting in an effective and efficient manner
• Share and implement best practice in project/program management, continuous improvement, right sizing efforts for Monzo’s context

🤩 We’d love to hear from you if…

• Experience delivering projects in financial services, particularly within risk and regulatory contexts.
• Skilled in managing cross-functional projects, juggling multiple workstreams, and balancing shifting priorities in fast-paced environments.
• Multi-disciplined project delivery experience, including process change, product launches, systems implementations, and outsourcing.
• Detail-oriented with advanced analytical and problem-solving abilities, paired with strong stakeholder management skills.
  Strong written communication skills for internal documentation, business advice, and ensuring team alignment.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with a collaborative approach; self-motivated, forward-thinking, and adaptable to new challenges and knowledge acquisition

🌟 Nice to haves

• Direct people management experience.
• Deep domain knowledge in communications, finance and technology. 

🙌 What’s in it for you

💰 £71,100 - £82,500

⏰ We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team. 

📚 £1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences.

🏡 We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup. 

➕ Plus lots more! Read our full list of benefits.

🌈 The application journey has 2 key steps

• Recruiter phone call (30 mins)
• Role Specific Interview with hiring manager and team member (60 mins)

This process should take around 2-3 weeks - your schedule is really important to us, so we promise to be as flexible as possible! We have some guidelines on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to ace an application and interview at Monzo. You can read them here.

You’ll hear from us throughout the application process, but if you’ve got any questions, please reach out to hiring-ask.

We’ll only close this role once we have enough applications for the next stage. Please submit your application as soon as possible to make sure you don’t miss out. 

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