Project Manager

Project Manager - Payment Processing Migration

Part-Time (3 Days per Week) | London City

Our client, a leading professional institution, is undertaking a large scale payment processing platform migration. We're seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead this business critical transformation on a part time basis (3 days per week).

This is a high profile, strategic project involving the migration of payment payment processing infrastructure across multiple geographies and products, requiring expert governance and coordination across complex technical and operational workstreams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Take full accountability for the delivery and upkeep of the end-to-end migration roadmap
• Drive programme governance, including dependency coordination across workstreams, integrated planning, and proactive risk and issue management
• Oversee delivery across all migration streams, including Product, QA & Testing, Data Migration and Cutover, Architecture & Solution Design, Fraud, Cyber Security, Risk & Operations, and Training and Change initiatives
• Serve as the central point of contact between internal stakeholders and third-party processing partners
• Partner with cross-functional teams to shape project scope, define delivery milestones, and agree measurable success outcomes
• Lead executive-level reporting and governance forums, providing clear status updates to senior stakeholders and steering groups
• Coordinate and direct cutover execution and post-migration hypercare/stabilisation phases
• Own project-level change management processes, including dependency tracking, risk mitigation, and issue resolution

Essential Requirements

• Strong background in financial services
• Previous experience in processing migration
• Proven track record of leading large-scale, complex migration projects in regulated environments
• Deep understanding of project governance frameworks and methodologies
• Excellent stakeholder management skills at senior executive level
• Strong experience managing third-party supplier relationships
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate multiple concurrent workstreams with complex dependencies

Working Arrangements:

• Part-time: 3 days per week
• Initially higher on-site presence required during project ramp-up (London City location)
• Flexibility to work more remotely as project matures
• Long-term engagement

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of race, sex, disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or age.