Project Assistant

4 months ago


Southampton, United Kingdom Pure Human Resources Full time

**_Project Assistant_**

**_ Ocean village, Southampton_**

**_ Permanent, Full time_**

**_ Salary - £30-33K DOE_**

Our client Forester Friendly Society is a long-established financial service company based in Southampton, Hampshire and have been providing their members with financial products for over 185 years. They are a mutual society, therefore all their profits are distributed between members through policyholders’ bonuses rather than going to shareholders.

Project Assistant, the role:

- Serve as Society’s Project Support function, assisting in the management of project delivery from inception to benefits realisation
- Identify, gather, and analyse stakeholder requirements
- Conduct GAP analysis
- Assist and at times lead the modelling and analysis of ‘as-is’ processes, propose, and where approved, assist or lead the implementation of ‘to-be’ processes
- Develop and present project status reporting to stakeholders
- Develop and maintain stakeholder analysis and personas
- Assist and at times lead in the gathering and engineering of solution requirements
- Produce and maintain project registers and logs, such as risk, issue, and quality registers
- Assist and at times lead the production of project test approaches and test delivery
- Assist and at times lead in the production of project reports, such as issue, lesson, sprint, and project closure reports
- Undertake other reasonable duties at the request of the Change Manager and IT Manager

Project Assistant, the person:

- Previous experience in a project support role
- Gathering and engineering of solutions requirements, and the development and maintenance of Business Requirements Documents
- Production and maintenance of project documentation, such as approaches, registers & logs, and plans is essential
- Process modelling and design, ideally with at least an elementary understanding of BPMN, and tools such as Visio, Lucidchart, or Draw.io
- Microsoft SQL server and T-SQL knowledge and experience is desirable but not essential
- A foundational understanding of Waterfall and Agile software delivery approaches is essential
- Previous experience of working on Agile (ideally Scrum) or PRINCE2 projects is essential
- Proficiency in, or awareness of Agile project tools such as Jira, Trello, or Azure Dev Ops Boards is preferred but not essential
- Previous experience in a Financial Services or other regulated business is preferred but not essential

Project Assistant, the benefit:

- Competitive salary and pension provided
- 25 days Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays (rising to 27 days after 5 years and 29 days after 10 years) and the day off for your Birthday
- Holiday purchase scheme - buy up to 3 extra days per annum
- Group Life Assurance - 4 times your salary
- Bonus based on individual performance - up to 10% of your salary each year
- Staff discounts
- Employee Assistance Programme - free, confidential advice line
- Onsite-parking (Head office only) - Funded
- Hybrid working is available where job role allows - after completion of induction period; details to be discussed at the interview stage


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