Experienced PMO Analyst required by our client a leading financial services company based in Leeds.

PMO Analyst will bring new ideas to set up and develop the provision of PMO services to project activity across the business and to support effective reporting, governance, and delivery of change and transformation programmes as well as some IT heavy projects.

This is an exciting opportunity to join an organisation which is embracing transformation as the company grows and further develops its financial services offering. This role is based in central Leeds offering a hybrid working environment – with c 2days per week required in the office. This is an opportunity to set up and deliver PMO activity in an expanding business change department, in return our client offers an attractive salary to £45K+ and an excellent range of benefits including a Bonus, and excellent pension contribution

PMO Analyst Skills and experience:

• Experience of proactive PMO; shaping principles of change control and governance to effectively deliver change
• Comfortable taking the lead on PMO support services
• Ability to work to deadlines and across different business areas to produce high quality output
• Understanding of change governance, portfolio management and principles of project management
• Good written and verbal communication / presentation skills
• Proficient in use of MS Office
• Ability to work with and influence a diverse range of internal stakeholders to deliver timely reporting across the portfolio

PMO Analyst Desirable Skills and experience: 

• Degree qualified
• Experience of project management
• Experience of conducting research
• Understanding of DB and DC pensions

PMO Analyst – Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the development of our client’s vision, values, and strategy.

• Effectively manage all aspects of change control by leading the project reporting cycle ensuring timely provision of action updates, status reports, cost tracking, and project tollgate submissions into Change Board

• Own production, analysis and distribution of critical management information including a single view of change, the monitoring of key metrics and preparation of inputs into the balanced scorecard.

• Function as key business owner for all project processes, artefacts, and resources, ensuring they are fit for purpose, consistently applied and communicated to relevant stakeholders as necessary.

• Perform regular health checks with project managers to track and better understand dependencies, risks, costs tracking and resource planning across the portfolio of change

• Identify and action continuous improvement and best practice within PMO and change delivery

• Work with project stakeholders (owners, sponsors etc) to produce demand planning views and track resource requirements, identifying and escalating where there are challenges to delivery

• Apply risk management principles to all activities at an individual and portfolio level

Please forward your CV at the earliest convenience to our Consultant Elaine Hallworth for further information on this exciting career opportunity for Business Project Manager. To further discuss our client, and the package which includes a salary c£45/50K plus bonus and attractive benefits package including hybrid/remote working.

The role is a full-time hybrid permanent position based in the North Yorkshire region with flexible home working (c 2days a week required to be based in the office) therefore local candidates would be better suited, and our client is offering an attractive salary to £55K + a range of excellent benefits.

The role will be working in a fast-paced environment, with a large cross-functional programme team, you’ll be required to keep tasks on track, sending progress communications to stakeholders, and ensuring any issues are resolved as efficiently as possible.

Project Manager Skills and experience:

We’re looking for candidates with strong knowledge of business processes, procedures and systems as well as having the ability to build and maintain effective relationships.

Essential

• Self-starters who can work with minimal direction, with a proactive and resilient approach
• People who are capable to deliver under pressure
• Strong interpersonal, presentation and literacy skills
• Able to communicate across all levels of the business, whilst possessing compelling influencing and negotiation skills
• Proven organisational and time management capabilities, along with excellent analytical skills and high levels of attention to detail

Desirable

• Financial services project management experience

You’ll be responsible for developing project plans, liaising with a wide range of stakeholders, and agreeing deliverables required to successfully complete. Pulling together information from across the business to create an achievable plan for each event, and then managing it through to completion.

For further information regarding this hybrid permanent opportunity with our Yorkshire-based client including  the attractive salary offered to £55K + a range of excellent benefits, please forward your CV to our Senior Recruiter Elaine Hallworth.

Developer opportunity ideally you will be experienced in Ruby or Javascript with a passion/desire to work in an infrastructure and security focused product development environment. Our client a specialist software solutions company to the medical sector working with an international client base, would be interested to offer you an excellent career opportunity.

Ideally you will have worked c 3 years’ as a developer, and ideally a motivated individual with a talent for ensuring operational excellence as you will be working in an AWS Infrastructure and Kubernetes environment.

Our client offers a hybrid working environment with you required to attend our clients Chester offices c2 days per week. They are also offering an excellent salary up to £50k, twinned with a first-rate benefits package including BUPA medical insurance, life assurance and 25 days’ holidays.

Developer (infrastructure & security focus) – main skills and experience:

•        A roll-up-your-sleeves attitude, and an insatiable drive for self-improvement

•        Ideally c3 years’ experience as a developer

•        An interest in transitioning into a security focused role

•        Ideally you will be comfortable in deploying and troubleshooting issues with a Kubernetes system

•        Ideally, proficiency in scripting languages like Ruby or Python

•        Confidence in working with SQL databases

•        Awareness of best-practice standards and procedures

If you’re ready to dive in, work hard and continuously develop your skills, this is the perfect chance to be part of a close-knit team working on exciting projects in the medical sector.

Please forward your CV to our Consultant Steve Hallworth who will provide more information on this excellent opportunity with this exceptional expanding international software solutions client offering  an excellent salary to £50k, twinned with a first-rate benefits package including BUPA medical insurance, life assurance and 25 days’ vacation.

Operational Resilience Specialist opportunity offering you the chance to set up and establish operational resilience in a financial services environment. Your role will be to support our client’s ongoing delivery of Operational Resilience strategy and work plans ensuring they continue to deliver and maintain resilient services for their customers as they undergo further transformational change.

Our client is based in Lancashire and operates a hybrid working environment and an attractive salary and package – to £60K and a range of benefits including a 35 hour week, healthcare, pension, free onsite parking and 25 days holiday.

Operational Resilience Specialist Key skills and experience:

• Experience of working in an Operational Resilience team with knowledge and understanding of the regulation in a Financial Services organisation
• Ability to engage and work in partnership with business stakeholders.
• Good analytical mind-set and able to interpret wide ranging information and make appropriate recommendations for Operational Resilience and Operation Risk.
• Adopts a pragmatic and balanced risk/reward approach
• Excellent understanding and extensive experience of the Financial Services sector.
• Must have strong PC and Software skills which to include Excel, Word and Power Point
• An outstanding team player with the ability to motivate and lead
• Strong written and oral communication skill gained in a financial services organisation.
• You may hold a relevant degree or professional continuity and resilience qualification (such as CBCI) or be able to demonstrate equivalent experience.

You’ll be working with business stakeholders, to deliver a broad and varied customer-focused work programme, building on work already underway to enhance Operational Resilience. You’ll also take ownership of the company’s Outsourcing and Third Party Management framework and ensure it is fully embedded throughout the organisation.

You’ll have an excellent understanding of Operational Resilience and other Operational Risk standards and the regulatory landscape and be able to use this to support the delivery and continued maturity of our Operational Resilience and Business Continuity processes, ensuring an approach that is aligned to regulatory expectations and our client’s needs.

This is an excellent opportunity to join this professional working environment with plenty of career development. The role will provide the incumbent the chance to develop their skills and experience and become a senior member of this organisation. In return you will enjoy an attractive salary of c £60K pa, a hybrid working environment and a range of benefits including a 35 hour week, healthcare, pension, and free onsite parking. Email your CV to us and we will share further information.

Exciting opportunity for an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to join our client an international software solutions company, we are seeking a candidate with a broad selection of technical and communication skills with a background in Infrastructure focusing on developing & maintaining the deployment of Internal & Client Infrastructure systems.

This is a great opportunity to join a close-knit team working on exciting projects in a stimulating environment. In return you will enjoy a salary up to £40K and benefits. Our client is based minutes from the A55 in Denbighshire with easy access from the Wirral, Cheshire, and North Wales regions and is offered on a hybrid basis with c2 days working in the office.

Infrastructure Engineer – Skills and Experience in some of the following:-

With regards to technical skills, our client does not necessarily expect candidates to have experience of every item listed. Our client will judge candidates primarily on their depth of knowledge and experience of the items they do claim to have experience of:-

• Knowledge of Windows Server and Linux (or at least one at advanced level).
• Competent in installing, configuring and maintaining servers (Windows/Linux).
• Competent in installing and managing web server technology (Apache/IIS).
• Knowledge of the deployment of application server technologies (e.g. Tomcat, JBoss).
• Knowledge of Infrastructure device management and policies (firewalls, switches etc).
• Ideally skills in network design and implementation principles.
• Ability to design and implement resilience mechanisms.
• Ability to design and manage backup solutions.
• Knowledge of Windows & Linux Scripting languages
• Knowledge of installation of DBMS solutions such as Oracle or SQLServer.
• Knowledge of implementation of EDI, XML and Web Services.
• Experience with virtualisation tools (e.g. VMWare/Hyper-V etc).
• Strong knowledge with the configuration of Cloud platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS / Azure).

Infrastructure Engineer – Responsibilities:

• Interfacing with multiple internal stakeholders across all departments of the company.
• Interfacing with end users and all other external stakeholders in order to determine their evolving needs including ideal deployment and scalability requirements for new product capabilities.
• Building and maintaining scalable, reliable and repeatable infrastructure.
• Ensuring business continuity and systems availability.
• Ensuring security and adherence to ISO 27001 security standards.
• Flexibility to on occasion deal with out of hours issues.
• Produce and maintain a high level of Documentation for company processes
• Provide an active involvement in developing strategic business goals.
• Work alongside the Infrastructure Manager to deliver the Technical Plan.

For further information about this interesting role, please forward your CV to our team and we will provide further information on this interesting career opportunity.

Senior Java Developer required at various levels by a leading software company with an international client base to provide programming expertise in the support of successful project implementations with the opportunity to become Head of Development for the company going forward.

The company is based on the Cheshire/North Wales border region but with some remote working as an option, this is a great opportunity to join a close-knit team with the opportunity to become Head of Development, working on exciting software development and implementations in a stimulating international environment. In return you will enjoy an attractive salary up to £55/60K (depending on experience) and benefits including hybrid/remote working from UK-wide.

Senior Java Developer – Key Skills

• Java 8 or higher, basic web / JavaScript, HTML, CSS
• Understanding of databases
• Have a natural questioning ability/analytical ability
• Ability to priorities and organise their workload
• Ability to learn and adapt to new industry standard teachings
• Can work unsupervised or as part of a team
• Can communicate with team members and peers

Senior Developer role will report to the IT Director, and will be involved with coding and unit testing of enhancements to an existing web-based application and liaising with clients to support customer test cycles.

Senior Java Developer – Key Responsibilities

• Provide assistance, advice and support to other team members as necessary.
• Maintain and enhance the legacy and next generation products.
• Support the customer facing teams – support and projects departments, with issue, investigation and resolution.
• Maintain clear and concise documentation across the board.
• Clearly communicate progress, concerns and ideas with the team and line managers.

You will ideally be based in the North West/North Wales border region with the ability to be based in the office 2/3 days a week. Apply now to discuss this fantastic opportunity and join a close-knit team working on exciting software development and implementations in a stimulating environment. The package includes an attractive salary up to £55/60K & benefits including hybrid working.