Senior Project Manager

Job title: Senior Project Manager

Duration: 6 months initial term

Pay: 750 per day PAYE

Location: 2 days per week in our Stratford, London office

• In September 2026, we move to 50% in office across the month

Your recruitment contact is Olivia Greig at Hays.

About the organisation

Our client is an independent regulatory body in the UK responsible for ensuring the financial markets work well for the consumers and the economy, promoting market integrity and effective competition.

About the team

The EMO, Sustainable Finance & International (ESFI) Change Department is responsible for the delivery of change to help shape and deliver divisional strategies to meet prioritised policy, regulatory and operational outcomes. They combine business and technical architecture, relationship management, portfolio, project and programme management, business change and business analysis expertise.

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to join a Capital Markets Programme - a high profile portfolio delivering major reforms across UK market infrastructure.

The current postholder is leading a high-profile piece of work on the Consolidated Tape for bonds. This involves analysing bond prices in the UK financial services sector, aggregating, and publishing them. The project involves collaboration with lawyers, policy teams, and senior managers.

The bonds tape is scheduled to go live in June, after which the current postholder will move on to another high-profile project and you will take ownership of the tape project.

Responsibilities:

• Successfully deliver business and technical change projects end-to-end, from inception through to project outcomes, following quality standards and within agreed baselines of time, budget, and scope
• Building and managing stakeholder relationships across the organisation, managing expectations, defining, and agreeing scope, facilitating key decisions and managing exceptions and escalations as needed
• Developing and implementing appropriate project management controls and governance to set up the initiatives for success, specifically developing the investment case, project plan, deliverables, and milestones to successfully deliver the business outcomes, identifying and sourcing resources to achieve time and cost expectations
• Validating assumptions and resolving dependencies, issues, and risks within delivery
• Ensure delivery adheres to the Change Delivery Framework, including Governance Framework
• Lead the project board meetings and produce the relevant materials, including portfolio reporting

What we're looking for:

Minimum:

• Direct experience of managing multi-million-pound business and technology change projects, in financial services or for a government or regulatory body
• Prior experience of managing employees and 3rd parties in a matrix, through the full lifecycle, from inception through to delivery
• Prior experience of planning and controlling project delivery to achieve business outcomes

Essential:

• Proven project management experience in Financial Services, ideally within Capital Markets.
• Strong delivery discipline with the ability to plan, track and drive progress across multiple workstreams
• Procurement experience, including managing suppliers and commercial processes in regulated environments.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, able to work confidently across policy, supervision, operations, procurement, data and technology teams.
• Ability to manage risks, dependencies, and critical path items in a complex, high-visibility programme

Beneficial:

• Investment banking experience

Disability Confident: our hiring approach
We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, and therefore, people or individuals with disabilities and long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. In cases of high application volumes, we may progress applicants whose experience most closely matches the role's key requirements.

What are the next steps?

If you are interested in the role, click the apply button and we will get in touch with you to discuss next steps.