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Project Manager
Location: Edinburgh (Hybrid) | Practice Area: Business Consulting | Type: Permanent
Delivering complex change across Wealth & Asset Management
The Role
As a Project Manager within our Business Consulting practice, you will lead the delivery of strategic change initiatives across Wealth & Asset Management. Working with leading financial institutions, you will oversee end-to-end project lifecycles, ensuring outcomes are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned to client objectives.
You’ll operate at the intersection of business and technology, collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive sustainable transformation in a dynamic regulatory and market environment.
What You’ll Do
- Lead the planning and delivery of complex change initiatives within Wealth & Asset Management
- Manage project governance, budgets, risks, issues, and dependencies across multiple stakeholders
- Facilitate workshops and steer clear communication between business, technology, and third-party partners
- Ensure regulatory, operational, and client requirements are translated into clear project outcomes
- Provide transparent reporting and insights to senior stakeholders, enabling informed decision-making
What We’re Looking For
- Proven experience delivering projects within Wealth & Asset Management or broader Financial Services
- Strong knowledge of project delivery methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid approaches)
- Experience managing diverse stakeholder groups across business and technology teams
- Ability to structure complex problems and translate them into clear, actionable plans
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and build trusted relationships
Bonus Points For
- Experience delivering regulatory, platform, or operating model transformation programmes
- Professional certifications (e.g., PRINCE2, PMP, Agile certifications)
- Exposure to front-to-back investment lifecycle processes
- Experience working in a consulting environment
- Familiarity with data, digital, or platform modernisation initiatives
Why Join Capco
- Deliver high-impact technology and business solutions for Tier 1 financial institutions
- Work in a collaborative, flat, and entrepreneurial consulting culture
- Access continuous learning, training, and industry certifications
- Be part of a team shaping the future of digital financial services
- Help shape the future of digital transformation across FS & Energy
We offer a competitive, people-first benefits package designed to support every aspect of your life:
- Core Benefits: Discretionary bonus, competitive pension, health insurance, life insurance and critical illness cover.
- Mental Health: Easy access to CareFirst, Unmind, Aviva consultations, and in-house first aiders.
- Family-Friendly: Maternity, adoption, shared parental leave, plus paid leave for sickness, pregnancy loss, fertility treatment, menopause, and bereavement.
- Family Care: 8 complimentary backup care sessions for emergency childcare or elder care.
- Holiday Flexibility: 5 weeks of annual leave with the option to buy or sell holiday days based on your needs.
- Continuous Learning: Minimum 40 Hours of Training Annually: Take your pick—workshops, certifications, e-learning—your growth, your way. Business Coach assigned from Day One to support your development.
- Healthcare Access: Convenient online GP services.
- Extra Perks: Gympass (Wellhub), travel insurance, Tastecard, season ticket loans, Cycle to Work, and dental insurance.
