Project Manager (Payment Processing Migration)

TL;DR

Project Manager (Payment Processing Migration): Leading a large-scale payment processing platform migration with an accent on programme governance, risk management, and stakeholder coordination. Focus on overseeing delivery across multiple workstreams and managing third-party processing partners.

Location: Hybrid, based in London City, UK. Initially higher on-site presence required during project ramp-up, with flexibility to work more remotely as the project matures.

Company

Our client, a leading professional institution, is undertaking a business critical payment processing platform migration.

What you will do

• Take full accountability for the delivery and upkeep of the end-to-end migration roadmap.
• Drive programme governance, including dependency coordination and proactive risk and issue management.
• Oversee delivery across all migration streams, including Product, QA & Testing, Data Migration, Architecture, Fraud, Cyber Security, Risk & Operations, 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.
• 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.

Requirements

• Strong background in financial services.
• Previous experience in payment 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.

Culture & Benefits

• Part-time: 3 days per week.
• Long-term engagement.