Project Manager - Finance / Cost - SC Cleared

Project Manager - Finance / Cost - SC Cleared

6 Months

Basingstoke

Our client a global IT services company require a Project Manager with a financial or commercial bias and experience working on IT projects ideally within Network or Infrastructure projects.

Key Accountabilities

• Effective management of the project baseline
• Manages the production of the required products and the delivery of the project in partnership with the customer and business unit to ensure acceptance, closedown and handover to service
• Defines the project requirements, ensuring that the requirements catalogue traceability matrix is complete
• Produces and coordinates materials and baselines during all phases of the project by careful planning and documentation
• Establishing and reporting project Key Performance Indicators to the Project Board through Highlight Reports and stage assessments
• Manages business and project risks and produces an effective plan and risk assessment.
• Ensures that formal review procedures are used. Manages the risks associated with the deliverables of the project in line with project management community standards.
• Ensures that the impact on the business unit's profit & loss due to project activities within the scope of the project is clearly visible and that all contingency usage is signed-off by the appropriate governance authority e.g. Project Board.
• Accountable for managing and tracking the project costs and supporting Business Units in meeting payment milestones
• Builds and manages the relationship with key stakeholders (customer, subcontractors and internally). Typically senior level manager and Project Board
• Ensuring that the milestone achievements are signed by the customer and relevant invoices are raised

Qualificatio Key Experience required:

• Strong experience in Building Customer Relationships
• Stakeholder Management
• Advanced MS Office Skills
• Experience with Managing P&Ls, understanding cost and Margin calculations

Desirable Skills:

• Proposal Writing
• Commercial Experience
• Salesforce Experience
• Experience working within Secure Environments
• MS Project

Due to the secure nature of this role the successful candidate will require SC clearance prior to starting.

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