Paralegal/Project Coordinator

Job title: Paralegal/Project Coordinator

Location: Manchester

Duration: 6 months initially

Adecco is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone's chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive.

My high-profile banking client are recruiting for a Paralegal/Project Coordinator with experience in financial services/legal. The role is initially full time in the office and will eventually revert to a hybrid position work on site 3 days a week and 2 days from home, working normal office hours. The role will be for a 6-month contracting position.

The role:

Responsible for end-to-end project management that includes scope management and estimation.
Ensures projects are completed on time, within budget and with minimum defects.
Adheres to methodologies adopted by the firm.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Project management via creation and maintenance of projects, plans, schedule effort estimation and tracking.
Liaison between customers and internal groups to ensure delivery of projects on time and within budget.
Ensures project delivery in conformance with company software development life cycle methodologies.
Conducts status meetings and facilitates issues resolution and risk mitigation.
Assists in providing status reports to senior staff in larger scale projects.
Works with business users to define business requirements and create functional specifications.

Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.

Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly