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About the Role

CMC Markets is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager on a 12-month FTC to lead large-scale, multi-stream business change initiatives from inception through to successful delivery. This is a high-impact role, partnering across business and technology teams to deliver strategic transformation in a dynamic, regulated fintech environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex, cross-functional projects spanning technology, operations, compliance, risk, finance and front office teams, ensuring alignment and on-time delivery.
• Own end-to-end project lifecycle management, from initiation and mobilisation through to closure and benefits realisation.
• Develop and maintain robust project plans, governance frameworks, RAID logs and high-quality reporting packs for Steering Committees and senior stakeholders.
• Continuously reassess delivery plans to reflect evolving business objectives balancing competing demands across multiple initiatives, ensuring alignment to strategic priorities.
• Provide clear impact assessments and options analysis when reprioritisation is required, enabling leadership to make informed decisions through structured evaluation of risk, cost, and benefit.
• Partner with business leaders to define target operating models, driving organisational readiness, process redesign, and behavioural change as required.
• Support cross-functional resource planning, balancing demand across business and technology workstreams.
• Engage confidently with stakeholders at all levels, including executive leadership, providing clear, concise and influential communication.

Requirements

• Proven track record as a Project Manager delivering complex, multi-disciplinary projects within regulated environments within Financial Services.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and build credibility at senior levels.
• Experience of working in a regulated environment.
• A proactive, solutions-focused mindset with sound judgement and strong prioritisation skills.
• Excellent communication, negotiation and conflict resolution capabilities.
• Comfortable operating autonomously, taking ownership and driving outcomes with pace and precision.
• High attention to detail combined with the ability to maintain a strategic perspective.
• Adaptable and resilient, able to manage competing demands in a fast-moving environment.
• Solid understanding of project management methodologies and governance best practice.
• Previous experience as a Project Manager, Delivery Manager or Change Manager.

Skills

• Stakeholder management
• Communication
• Negotiation
• Conflict resolution
• Project management methodologies
• Governance best practice

Location

• Remote

Work Type

• Full-time
• Contract

Experience Level

• Senior
• 12 month FTC

About the Company

• Since launching in 1989, CMC Markets has become one of the world's leading online CFD and financial spread betting providers, with nearly 66.8 million trades executed annually across Europe, Asia Pacific and North America.
• CMC Markets’ success is founded on its ability to deliver a wide range of trading products to customers, from single equities to indices, currencies and commodities.
• CMC Markets has pioneered the development of online trading in markets around the world to become a world leading spread betting and CFD provider.
• CMC Markets is one of the world’s first ever fin-tech companies and was launched in 1989 to break down the barriers of financial trading and make trading accessible to everyone.
• Our mission is to use our award-winning, Next Generation trading platform and unparalleled client service to empower millions of people to have the best trading experience out there.
• Our clients can trade on thousands of instruments using the best technology, supported by sophisticated charting, competitive pricing and automated execution.
• We're trusted by investors globally, but also by banks, brokers, funds and trading desks though our top-tier liquidity institutional offering, enabling these businesses to expand into new markets and increase revenue potential.
• We were recently listed on the FTSE250, and our business continues to go from strength to strength as we continue to invest in our technology and our people.

Equal Opportunity

• CMC Markets is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.