project manager in fintech

Cisco develops solutions that connect and protect organizations by enabling secure, visible, and insightful interaction between data, infrastructure, people, and technology across physical and digital environments.

• Provide operational support to assigned CDA programmes, teams, and sub-regional leaders;
• Implement and enforce programme and project governance standards, processes, and best practices;
• Act as the first line of protection against non-compliant operations;
• Report compliance issues and risks to CDA Lead and Sub-Regional Lead;
• Support audits in assigned countries;
• Maintain audit-ready SharePoint archives of programme and project documentation;
• Own and update country CDA Budget Trackers and reconcile quarterly actual Opex data;
• Adopt and promote the DIO Power App and Dashboard as the single source of truth;
• Verify that CDA opportunities in SFDC are authorised by Sales;
• Ensure project closures and retrospectives are completed;
• Keep DIO dashboards and SFDC pipelines up to date;
• Identify, document, and communicate programme and operational risks;
• Support quarterly and annual investment and bookings planning;
• Manage investment budgets, monitor actual investments, and communicate forecasts and weekly reforecasts;
• Run the bookings reconciliation process and monitor the CDA opportunity pipeline;
• Own procurement actions, including raising PRs, managing cross-charges, chasing approvals, authoring and checking SoWs, monitoring invoicing, and managing aged POs;
• Monitor projects through the CDA lifecycle, including business cases, approvals, procurement, monitoring, accruals, opportunity flagging, replication, storytelling, retrospectives, and documented closure;
• Support CDA Leads and Sub-Regional Managers with reporting, strategy meetings, and half-year reviews;
• Review investment proposals and PEFs, chase approvals, and manage project statuses in dashboards.

• 3–5 Years of experience in project or programme management support, preferably in a large multinational technology organization;
• Expertise in project governance frameworks, audit compliance, and corporate SOPs;
• Proficiency in budget management, financial forecasting, and end-to-end procurement processes;
• Experience with Purchase Requisitions and Statement of Work management;
• Advanced competency with SharePoint, MS Excel, project tracking tools, and proprietary dashboards;
• Experience with Salesforce (SFDC) for pipeline and opportunity management;
• Ability to manage stakeholders across multiple sub-regions and report to senior leadership;
• Nice to have: Cisco-specific systems including the DIO Power App, internal financial tools and compliance frameworks, CDA or similar government-facing public sector initiatives, process improvement, adoption of reporting technologies, coaching local teams on project execution and data hygiene.

• Office role in London, England, United Kingdom.