Project Manager - Payments

Your new company

Your new companyA leading financial services organisation is undertaking a major transformation of its payments' technology estate. With several strategic initiatives underway, the business is investing heavily in modernising core payment systems, delivering regulatory change and replacing end-of-life platforms.

Your new role

We are seeking an experienced IT Project Manager to lead the delivery of a critical SWIFT Alliance Access replacement programme ahead of a key regulatory deadline. The initial focus will be on delivering SWIFT-related changes and associated system impacts, before supporting additional payments initiatives across the wider technology estate.

You will manage the full project life cycle, working closely with Technology, Operations, Risk, Compliance and business stakeholders to ensure successful delivery. This role will involve managing project plans, budgets, resources, governance, risks, testing and implementation activities across complex payments environments.

What you'll need to succeed

• Proven experience delivering Payments projects within banking or financial services
• Strong knowledge of SWIFT messaging and payments processing
• Experience delivering SWIFT-related projects, ideally including Alliance Access
• Understanding of MT messages and ISO 20022 migration programmes
• Knowledge of upstream and downstream payment system dependencies
• Experience delivering regulatory-driven change programmes
• Strong stakeholder, vendor and risk management experience
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and business teams and quickly gain credibility with SMEs
• Experience managing complex projects through Agile, Waterfall or hybrid methodologies
• Previous SWIFT experience would be advantageous but is not essential

What you'll get in return

• Hybrid Working

What you need to do now

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