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Junior Project Manager

Location: Cardiff

Hybrid / Flexible Working

Salary: Up to £35,000 depending on experience + up to 20% annual bonus + benefits

LDMS

Founded in 2018 LDMS are part of the LC Financial Holdings group, a 3 pillar organisation that has over 950 employees across Europe. Together, we have an impressive track record of providing world class credit expertise that spans over 20 years.

We are a Fintech company focused on digital lending software, a market growing around 18% per year and set to be worth $27 billion by 2028. Given our expertise within the company and across the group we aim to be the leader in the space, and in order to do that we need a team of people who can not just write quality code but can think, create and challenge others to come up with the best solutions for our customers. We are an ambitious team with a pretty big ‘to do list’ including improving existing products, building new ones and delivering to new markets.

The Role

As a Junior Project Manager you will have a positive impact at LDMS by ensuring to support the delivery of internal and external projects, resulting in positive feedback from our customers and key stakeholders. You'll be self-motivated and committed to completing projects and any administrative tasks in line with defined timescales. You'll be up to speed with various project methodologies and able to support the Project Manager to identify the best approach to take when working with various clients. Being well versed in planning, you'll be able to help support the Project Manager with all administrative tasks such as capturing, recording and updating Risks, Actions, Issues and Dependencies (RAIDs) across the portfolio of projects and ensuring all project documentation is up to date.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

From time to time the key responsibilities may change or be adapted to the needs of the business, however the below gives an overview of the key areas of focus

Day to Day

• You will be up to date with the various project methodologies and will support the Project Manager when applying the best approach to take when working with clients.

• You will be comfortable working with the various project management tools adopted by the business.

• You will understand planning and communication are key. Keeping both the Project Manager and project documentation up to date, as well as maintain positive stakeholder relationships.

• You take ownership of identifying your individual training needs/knowledge gaps and personal development.
• You will work closely with the Project Manager to track resource on projects.

• You are comfortable to facilitate daily stand-ups if needed and participate in regular planning sessions to ensure that the teams are kept up to date, motivated and driving things forward.

• You help identify areas of improvement and feeding back to the team and stakeholders through retrospectives and reviews.

• You update key project governance and any approvals via regular steering meetings.

You ensure project meetings are minuted and any actions shared with interested parties.

• You will help ensure risk, issues and change requests are logged and circulated via appropriate channels including Jira, RAID logs and plans

What’s important to us?

It’s safe to say our passion is tech but we recognise that it’s the people that we hire and bring together who are at the heart of the organisation. Over the years we have acquired and recruited a pretty eclectic bunch with hobbies ranging from gaming to ultra marathon running, snowboarding to chess and hiking and climbing, however, what we do have in common are our values:

Teamwork

Merit

Develop

Honest

Impactful

Integrity

They may just look like corporate jargon but they mean something to us, and if you can relate to the above, get in touch as it there’s a good chance that you’d be a great addition to the team.

Benefits

Benefits

• Discretionary Bonus (Up-to 20%)
• 25 days AL
• 1 day Birthday Leave
• 1 day Charity Leave
• Death In Service
• Comprehensive medical cover provided by AXA (All employees get VIP)
• EAP
• Pension (Standard 3% and 4% contribution)
• Salary sacrifice bike and car scheme