Technology Project Planner

London, Docklands (Hybrid)

£75,000 - £80,000 per annum + annual discretionary bonus

On behalf of a Leading financial services organisation, I am seeking an experienced Project Planner to play a key role in supporting projects and improving the quality of plans within the Technology Project Management area.

The company operates hybrid working where you will be expected to commit to a non-negotiable 2 days a week in their London office, therefore applicants must be based within a reasonable commuting distance.

Responsibilities:

* The Project Planner will be a key role in supporting projects and improving the quality of plans within the Technology Project Management area. This role will report to the Senior Planner. Key responsibilities include:

* Creates and embeds plan governance in-line with program / project governance and reporting.

* Follows due processes and procedures to support the plan management and governance including change management and status reporting.

* Assures the quality and technical robustness of plans in line with the standard.

* Develop a set of plan reporting metrics to drive escalations and determine if go-live at risk.

* Leverages planning guidance from ePMO to support the definition of project plans and reporting.

* Contribute and own wider planning improvement initiatives.

Experience / Skills required:

* 5+ years of project project planner experience ideally within the technology space.

* Significant experience as a planner for large change programs and/or complex projects across an end-to-end project lifecycle gained within a large organisation within a regulated financial services envrionment.

* Extensive hands-on experience of maintaining and managing plans in a fast-moving organisation (waterfall, iterative and agile).

* Experience of working in a PMO with a solid understanding of project management best practice and methodology.

* Experienced in creating well-structured and good quality project documentation with excellent skills in the use of the MS Office suite of tools, Microsoft SharePoint and MS Project.

* Experience of using Microsoft Project. PPM Pro or similar tools to produce and maintain high quality project plans.

* Excellent interpersonal skills.

* Proven ability supporting the delivery of projects in a fast paced, complex, demanding environment.

* Owns and maintains the project plan for the project/program.

* Provides planning support to PM community including Planning tools (MSP and PPM Pro) skills development as required.

* Ensures plans are set up with appropriate logic to identify a clear Critical Path.

* Drives plan reporting including variance analysis; overdue and at-risk reporting; contingency management; critical path escalations; and plan metrics to support key stakeholders, look ahead dashboards.

* Facilitates the management of internal/external plan dependencies.

* Ensures the ‘high level delivery plan’ is maintained and reflects the plan status.

* Displays ownership of activities assigned to them and can drive ownership of plans and required improvements from key stakeholders.

* Experienced at managing stakeholders ensuring strong communication and governance is in place