Adaptive Financial Consulting - Senior Project Manager - London - Fintech

Remote - London1w ago

Remote Senior EMEA Project Manager Documentation Team Management Goal Setting Budget Forecasting Client Consulting Governance Reporting Account Management

Responsibilities

• Adaptive’s standard PM practices are combined with the programme-level planning, governance and release discipline used across the Accelerator teams. • Productisation and client delivery move forward together, with the roadmap turned into executable plans. • The team has a clear, prioritised plan covering product roadmap, client commitments, releases and dependencies. • Engineering, BA, QA, SRE, Product, Consulting and Client Delivery understand their responsibilities and can work without avoidable blockers. • Stakeholders receive accurate, timely information on progress, risk, scope, cost and decisions. • Releases are planned, tested, documented and communicated with clear go/no-go ownership. • Product and client feedback is converted into structured backlog items, roadmap decisions and reusable product knowledge. • Adaptive can forecast delivery capacity, revenue, margin and risk with confidence. • Manage the project: • Manage the project: • Own and maintain an integrated delivery plan and prioritised backlog connecting product outcomes, client milestones, resourcing, and dependencies. • Proactively identify, track, and mitigate cross-team dependencies and RAID items across technical, operational, and commercial domains. • Provide regular status reporting, burndown tracking, and actionable options to address slippage or scope changes. • Manage the sprint and release cadence, overseeing scope cut-offs, go/no-go readiness, non-functional requirements, and support handover. • Protect product quality and release confidence by ensuring thorough testing, operational readiness, and transparent blocker triage. • Manage a team: • Coordinate distributed teams and regional leads, address capacity or capability gaps, and support onboarding. • Drive continuous improvement via retrospectives, servant leadership, and resolving recurring challenges. • Empower team decision-making while expanding domain, delivery, and product expertise. • Foster a collaborative, psychologically safe environment across regions, roles, and workflows. • Drive cross-functional alignment across Engineering, QA, BA, SRE, Product, and Client Delivery while ensuring accountability. • Manage people: • Hold routine 1:1s to discuss feedback, well-being, growth, and performance alignment. • Set clear goals and standards, monitor progress, and provide timely guidance. • Recognise high impact and provide objective input for performance, promotion, and compensation reviews. • Resolve performance issues or friction fairly, escalating to People Ops or leadership when necessary. • Manage resourcing: • Manage resourcing: • Establish risk mitigation strategies and succession plans for key roles, governance, and client relationships. • Manage client & stakeholders: • Lead client delivery governance, maintaining transparent records of scope, decisions, assumptions, and contractual commitments. • Finance: • Partner with Account Management and leadership to manage budgets, resource costs, revenue forecasts, and commercial margin risks

Benefits

• To be immersed in high-standard engineering culture. Our fantastic team takes pride in crafting complex technical solutions but also loves sharing their knowledge and helping you grow professionally (we have extraordinary minds at Adaptive, some of us worked at NASA too ) • You can learn from anyone here, which is the beauty of it • To take part in the growth and development of a great company • Our teams feel free to speak up, make suggestions and raise concerns. • Collaborative team environment: we all work together, respect each other, and pitch in • Great consideration for work/life balance (highly-flexible, hybrid working model, well-being benefits…). Balance between professional and personal life is massively important to us. • We work hard to provide a positive, collaborative and inclusive culture and to positively impact our staff and local communities through different well-being, diversity and inclusion programmes. • WHAT PEOPLE THINK OF US You can check our Glassdoor page • WHAT PEOPLE THINK OF US • BENEFITS (What we offer in return // what you’ll get ) • For permanent employees:We create benefits with YOU in mind. • 25 days holiday • Family medical and dental • Season ticket loan • Long-term disability insurance • Employee Assistance Plan • For contractors: • All our contracts are outside IR35 • THE PROCESS • Long interview processes are stressful and boring and that is not us • We want to make sure that everything runs smoothly.So here you will have three stage interviews:1- A chat with one of our great recruiters.2- A zoom chat with one of our PM where they will ask you detailed questions about your experience • 3 - A Face to Face interview (either in our office or via Zoom). • But don’t worry; everything will be explained to you step by step by your recruiter. • A little tip for you during those stages: • Collaboration is massively important to us, so don't hesitate to share your thoughts, ask questions, ask for help if needed, etc • DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION: • Diversity and inclusion are key to a great workplace, and Adaptive is better when it’s more representative of the world around us. We want everyone to feel comfortable bringing their whole selves to work without any fear of judgment or negativity. All we ask is that our colleagues are respectful, collaborative, passionate about what they do, and have the skills needed to be successful in their roles. • Background check: the employment/engagement is subject to an acceptable background check that will be run by Adaptive. • Background check: