Project Manager/Business Analyst/Consultant/Taskforce Management/Retail
£35,000 - £45,000

My client is a global Retail Solutions provider who is looking for a Functional Consultant to join their rapidly expanding team. You'll be responsible for the end to end delivery of retail solutions, particularly taskforce management solutions, into a range of clients. You'll be responsible for customer engagement through to delivery and aftercare.

You will have previous experience working in the retail sector either in a head office, store or field based role. You must have experience working with a Task Management solution. You will have outstanding stakeholder management and business engagement skills.

To be considered for this role, you will offer the following:

• Exceptional organization and time management skills
• Extensive retail experience with a genuine passion to delight the customer and improve experience
• Calm, resilient and works well under pressure
• Exceptional communication skills
• Very high level of attention to detail

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London office of US law firm seeking an experienced Business Analyst to join their IT team.

The ideal candidate with have:

• Solid experience in a BA position within a professional services or LLP environment (Legal, Accountancy, Insurance etc.)
• Demonstrable experience in a 'business engaging' role
• Excellent project and change management skills
• Use of wire-framing and other analytical methods and tools to ensure stakeholder requirements are accurately captured and prioritised
• Experience in the preparation of test plans and the ability to accurately test applications
• Excellent knowledge of Excel, MS Query and SQL
• Experience within the legal profession and products such as DMS/PMS would be advantageous

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Job Description :

Our client are currently experiencing huge growth and in need of a PMO Manager to the project and programme team. You will work with the team leader to provide effective profiling, monitoring of resources, and budget forecasts throughout the life of technology schemes during development, design and delivery.

The company can offer you a good team environment, autonomy and opportunity to travel and grow within an expanding fast paced company.

Essential skills include:

• Display independent judgement, be diverse and adaptable in approach

• Be able to work with/advise key clients at senior level

• Experience supporting end to end on projects

• MI or BI knowledge

Desirable Skills:

• Commercial and programme risk management skills

• Able to work with common Microsoft & bespoke packages (excel)

This is an excellent opportunity for the successful PMO Manager to gain experience in a global operating organization, with opportunity to grow expand and travel. Our clients services operate across a wide range of sectors including defense, education, health, housing, industrials, power, transport and utilit

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Data Privacy Program Manager

A huge data company are currently recruiting for a Data Privacy/Information Security Program Manager where you will be involved on a huge program including the management of major governance initiatives such as compliance with GDPR (EU's General Data Protection Regulation).

Information about the role

You will be expected to oversee and manage large and complex internal information security projects, including the development and implementation of functional and organizational processes and procedures. You'll make sure basic controls are in place sharing knowledge and understanding of data privacy are in place across the business. You will be responsible for driving best practice and understanding complexity of risks. You will be focusing on what data can be kept and what can be re-used making sure no data privacy laws are broken and personal data is protected.

Information about the candidate

The ideal candidate will have worked in a large scale organization with a thorough understanding of data privacy. Understanding of information security fundamentals and general security technologies as well as an understanding of privacy fundamentals. You should also have strong organization, prioritization, and rationalization skills with extensive understanding of critical program/project management techniques and an ability to motivate and lead team members. Someone who is Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) or CISA and/or Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification is highly desirable.

Information about the package

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Main Responsibilities:

·         Ensure transparency to projects and programs at all levels

·         Ensure successful delivery of well-controlled projects and programs on time and to meet business objectives

·         Build/Maintain a successful team of project and program managers

·         Engage in external processes and delivery frameworks to represent F&R Technology and the portfolio

·         Ensure that realistic estimates of costs, timescales and resource requirements are agreed and monitor projects against these criteria, taking corrective action as necessary

·         Understand current IT estate and operations, as well as current enterprise architecture objectives and constraints. Focus on business risk and continuity issues which impact the strategy. Take full advantage of wider issues, eg commercials, people, processes and systems, for any proposed IT strategy.

·         Influence stakeholder groups to successfully gain their support and commitment.

·         Support the maturity of the Change Delivery function in order to:

o    Centralize demand intake and optimize the project portfolio and resource capacity to deliver your organization's strategic initiatives.

o    Optimize resource capacity and improve utilization

o    Balance portfolio for capital and expense constraints

o    Visualize, share, and investigate portfolio performance to identify issues and manage against KPIs

Essential Skills/Experience Required:

·         Ability to think strategically and creatively, strong analytical and problem solving skills.

·         Current strong experience in managing people

·         Experience engaging with stakeholders of varying levels, managing across time zones and cultures

·         Able to understand and anticipate project and business continuity risks, and manage/

·         mitigate

·         Project and Program management skills, including documentation and delivery, working knowledge of PMO frameworks

·         Experience of delivering technical projects.

·         Engage and build relationships with diverse stakeholders, influencing and providing tactful 'push-back' and alternative solutions where necessary

·         Drive pragmatic delivery - employing a cross disciplinary approach and emphasis on results

·         Develop the capability of delivery teams so that they can demonstrate consistent, reliable programme success.

·         Conceptual thinking: The ability to understand the underlying issues in complex problems or situations by relating these to simpler or better understood concepts, models or previous experiences in order to deliver change successfully

·         Initiative and drive: Proactively, anticipating opportunities for service improvement and taking appropriate action

·         Leadership qualities including the ability to identify goals and objectives, and motivate and lead others towards achieving them.

·         Influence, persuasion and personal impact, the ability to convey a level of confidence and professionalism, positively

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Project Coordinator - Datacentre/Cloud Migration - London - £375-425
A global managed service provider requires a Project Coordinator to help them on a key datacentre/cloud migration programme based in London. You will be working alongside the lead PM and will be responsible for the coordination and performance" of a range of Data Centre Migration projects, achieving the end client and consultancies objectives. You will assist in meeting the contractual obligations and delivery of the program to client satisfaction. Due to the nature of the project previous Datacentre migration experience is essential.

Coordinator to be based in London on a contract basis to work across a large scale migration based project.
Please apply now for immediate consideration!
Project Coordinator - Datacentre/Cloud Migration - London - £375-425

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Business Analyst required by a leading global financial services organisation located in London. The Business Analyst will be working on a wide variety of IT projects and will involve assessing business need, capturing requirements, designing solutions and supporting delivery. The Business Analyst will need to have a proven track record of business analysis gained with complex Matrix managed environments.

Business Analyst, London, Financial Services

Required experience

• Proven track record of business analysis gained within complex Matrix managed environments.
• Exposure to a variety of IT projects ideally covering both applications and infrastructure.
• Ability to elicit, understand, capture and document requirements in a structured and efficient manner.
• Very strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Desire to seek continues professional development.

Business Analyst, London, Financial Services

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing global financial services business offering career progression and a comprehensive benefits package.

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Our leading UK Banking client are looking for a strong BA to join a large card & payments project.

Candidates will have an all round solid BA skill set and will be comfortable in hitting the ground running and picking up on critical work within an agile environment.

Experience of working within cards, payments or mobile payments would be highly advantageous. Candidates with experience of PEGA systems would be preferred.

The business are looking for experienced BAs, with at least 4 years' experience in an established Business Analyst role within Banking.

Key Skills & Experience

• Banking background;
• 4 years' minimum in an established BA role within Banking;
• Payments/cards experience;
• Business analysis skills - requirements gathering, workshop facilitation, solution; assessment, documentation, stakeholder engagement;
• Excellent communications - both for stakeholder management/engagement purposes, and to work well with colleagues

Contracts will be issued for an initial 6 months.

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I have an exciting new opportunity which would suit someone looking for the next step in there career. 

This role will suit an experienced support analyst looking to make that transition into the BA world. You will have a strong understanding of the Investments/Asset Owner business environment and the front and Middle Office applications deployed, with the ability to effectively articulate and translate user requirements into workable systems solutions

Key skills:

• Experience of Portfolio Management Systems, Primarily Charles River.
• Analysis of current state and definition of future state processes
• Exposure to both in-house builds and third party package software implementation
• Good understanding of Front Office processes, portfolio analysis and trade life cycle
• Use of SharePoint, JIRA, MS Outlook (highly desired) 
• Experience of Investment EDM platforms (highly desired)

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Experience of working in multiple large scale application development/systems integration projects.

Has a good level of management skills, with particular emphasis on interpersonal and negotiating skills. Must be able to lead teams successfully in a challenging environment.

Has a sound level of commercial, organisational, time management and resource management skills. With an ability to prioritise work activities, pay attention to detail and conduct meetings in an effective manner.

General Test Management skills;

·         Virtual team management

·         Stakeholder management

·         Defect management

·         Risk and issue management

·         Test traceability matrices,

·         Proficient in the use of MS Project

·         Effective management of third party, including off-shore, resources

The Test Manager will be responsible for delivering:

·         Test execution and support of Client and other suppliers testing activities

·         Management and creation of Phased Test plans, eg CIT, SIT, UAT.

·         Authoring and creation of Test scripts from HLD, LLD and requirements.

·         Xerox Print Service compliance with the Client's Test Strategy

·         Xerox Print Service compliance with the Client's Testing Policies, Processes, Procedures

·         Ensure alignment of all Xerox test processes with the Client's Test Strategy

·         Management and change control of the Xerox Model Office test environments

·         Create and maintain Xerox test data and process documentation

Required Skills and Experience

·         Knowledge and hands on experience of managing virtualised test environments. ie VMWare

·         Knowledge of building and configuring environments with Windows 2008 server/2012 server

·         (ideally)

·         Knowledge of SQL server, IIS services

·         Experience of testing print/testing driver's/print Servers/print migration etc

·         Experience of defining/creating test strategies and plans/test scheduling with multiple

·         suppliers

·         Experience of System Integration Testing

·         Excellent written and verbal communication skills as will have to work with project/service

·         Delivery/external suppliers/and attend client meetings

·         Excellent MS Excel/MS Word/MS Project skills and can evident documentation skills

·         Experience of documentation approval processes, review, auditing and sign off through PMO

·         Experience of testing aligned to multiple towers ie Print and Network in a SIAM model

·         Desirable - experience of Jira/Zephyr testing toolset

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