Project Manager

Risk isn’t going to disappear and the complex, ever changing environment makes it much harder to predict where new challenges will come from. But it represents an opportunity for businesses to transform and innovate, and discover hidden value. From the boardroom to back office, we work to protect and strengthen every aspect of business; from people to performance, systems to strategy. Through our invaluable insights and independent assurance we help discover and unlock real value.There is a huge amount of business change caused by disruption, including technology, regulation, or a factor in the broader environment such as Brexit and that gives rise to risk and uncertainty. Helping our clients identify and address those risks to give them and their stakeholders confidence in their business is the purpose of our new Risk Assurance Line of Service. As a business, we have been providing services related to risk within our wider Assurance practice. On 1 July 2020, we established this new Line of Service to better use the scale and breadth of our practice including many of the firm’s experts in areas such as technology, regulation, cyber security, listings, actuarial, accounting, controls and internal audit.

About Enterprises and Enterprise Business Applications 

The Enterprises business unit will be leading the drive for growth and innovation across Risk, and enabling areas identified from within our business to have the space and breadth to rapidly scale. The purpose of our new BU is to incubate and scale some of our propositions and services to accelerate and supercharge their growth, as well as providing us with a place to develop some of our new solutions for the future.

We are currently made up of 3 key areas, PwC Sustainability, Enterprises Business Applications and Marketing & Media.

Our Enterprises Business Applications (EBA) is a rapidly growing team offering a range of high value services for organisations going through business and technology change. The team specialises in helping mid-sized, UK based organisations navigate complex and challenging Transformation programmes that are principally based on Microsoft Technology solutions. Our Microsoft team excels in de-risking these complex programmes and helping our clients to achieve their desired programme outcomes.

• Rapidly expanding team

• Focus on a growing market

• Strength in delivery capability coupled with MS technology experience

• Growth plan to move from 40-220 FTE over 4 years

• Business integrator and client-side advisor focus

The Role

As a Project Manager, you will support client transformation programmes to ensure that delivery is planned, tracked, and executed. This will involve:

• Taking responsibility for all aspects of delivery for the project including planning, scope agreement, team management and client engagement

• Supporting the management of key programme governance forums and activities. 

• Planning and prioritisation of delivery activities to control scope, schedule, and costs.

• Resource planning with blended teams that include clients, contractors, system integrators, and PwC staff.

• Tracking costs against programme/project budget

• Summarising and presenting key programme reporting in a coherent manner which is understood across the programme workstreams and stakeholders. 

• Facilitating the effective flow of information through the governance structure.

• Working with different workstreams leads to drive clarity on delivery expectations.

Person Specification

• Significant experience in leading, planning and delivering digital and Microsoft Dynamics 365 CE and/or F&O programme transformations. 

• Experience of managing and communicating with stakeholders across client, third party and internal teams. 

• Experience of project planning, preferably using Microsoft Project or other planning tools

• Experience of financial planning and tracking for a project or programme.

• Ability to delegate and oversee work of project teams including third parties.

• Experience of communicating to delivery teams to drive alignment on processes and standards.

• Ability to navigate uncertainty and ambiguity in pragmatic way

• High level of attention to detail and driving the team to deliver to a high standard

• Qualified in project/programme management (e.g. PRINCE2, Agile or Managing Successful Programmes).

Risk
We’re a leading provider of trust in the digital world - in the eyes of our people, our clients and our stakeholders. Today's business environment is different. More complex. More connected. Companies not only face new and unknown risks, but also new and untapped opportunities. Our team is at the forefront of this change, join us to be a part of transforming how risk is perceived and capitalised on.

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