Project Manager (SC Cleared / Banking Payments)

Project Manager (SC Cleared / Banking Payments)

6 Month Contract

London (Hybrid)

£500-550/day (Inside IR35)

Project Manager needed with active SC Security Clearance and Banking Payments project experience. 6 Month Contract based in London (Hybrid).

Paying up to £500-550/day (Inside IR35). Start ideally in Jan/Feb 2026.

Hybrid Working - 3 days/week remote (WFH), and 2 days/week working on-site in the London office.

A chance to work with a leading global IT and Digital transformation business specialising in delivering large-scale Government projects.

Key experience + tasks will include:

• Must hold active SC Security Clearance that has been in use on a project within the past 12 months.


• Project Manager with strong Banking and Payments project delivery experience.


• Project Context: merging divisions across Wholesale, Digital and Retail payments.


• Proven experience of delivering complex projects to agreed time, cost and quality parameters, including managing multiple dependencies.


• Key Tasks include: defining pragmatic PM delivery methodology, completing 2026 project planning + maintaining 'in-flight' project delivery priorities, project control, reporting, managing risks / dependencies, and incorporating lessons learned.


• Managing RAID items, monitoring project progress against plan, proactively tracking key deliverables, and taking timely corrective action where necessary.


• Solid track record of successful project delivery throughout the entire project lifecycle, including project planning, and RAID management.


• Implementing agreed project quality assurance, change control, and configuration management processes.


• Excellent stakeholder management, including the ability to persuade, influence and collaborate with key stakeholders up to senior management level, and build constructive working relationships.


• Strong time management skills, including the ability to set priorities, and deliver to tight deadlines.


• Programme Management qualification preferred (-eg- Prince2, APMP, PMP, MSP).