Senior Project Manager

As a Senior Project Manager within the Lending business, you will lead the delivery of large, complex client projects across the full lending lifecycle. You will manage high‑visibility delivery, coordinate multi‑disciplinary global teams, and ensure predictable outcomes across scope, schedule, cost, quality, and risk. This role blends delivery excellence, domain expertise, commercial stewardship, and executive‑level stakeholder management. At least 5-10 years’ experience of delivering professional service type projects in a vendor/client context for large and challenging organisations, with extensive knowledge of project management standards, processes, procedures and guidelines. Understanding of IT project methodologies and life cycles, e.g., conversions, incremental, rapid delivery, classic or traditional waterfall phases of analysis, design, development, testing, implementation. You should be able to describe confidently the context in which agile methods can be applied, the advantages and disadvantages. Knowledge of financial services industry or willingness to use existing professional services experience in other bluechip industries to gain expertise in what fintech projects must deliver. Skill in the use of negotiation techniques to reach agreement when there are widely-differing viewpoints; excellent analysis, problem-solving, team, conflict management and time management skills. Energy, enthusiasm, confidentiality, discretion and patience to handle difficult situations and continue to drive important projects and programs forward over a long timescale when there are delays and setbacks. Willingness to travel. Added bonus if you have: Experience within the Fintech or Lending domains Project Management certification