Project Manager - SaaS
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Project Manager – SaaS
Package: Basic £ + benefits
Industry: FinTech SaaS – Mid-Market & Enterprise
Why: Huge growth potential in EMEA and a scaling business
- Do you have experience project managing SaaS projects?
- Are you comfortable leading projects with budgets from £20k - £1m?
- Do you want to join a scaling business that's just received significant investment?
Our client are a leading Global FinTech SaaS vendor with a reputation for industry leading solutions. You will be joining as they continue to scale their EMEA operation following significant recent investment. You will be joining a business of over 1000 people globally, where employees have excellent longevity and a professional and mature working culture.
Their FinTech solutions are mainly aimed at companies within financial services such as banks, asset finance providers, automotive lenders and is sold at a Mid-Market to Enterprise level. Their customers rely on them to help protect and scale their financial organisations by streamlining process through technology.
In this role you will work with distributed teams to ensure that customer satisfaction is high and that client releases are delivered on time and within budget. You will work on multiple projects at the same time, mostly with existing customers who are looking for solutions updates and bespoke development. You will need to be able to manage multiple internal and external stakeholders across multiple projects. Experience with FinTech or Finance Software project management would be highly beneficial.
Responsibilities
- Definition and management of project initiation tasks such as project mandate, resource planning, kick off meetings, delivery planning, communication plans etc
- Working with the Service Delivery Manager to ensure support agreements are met and service standards are at the expected level
- Continually expanding understanding of the finance industry and Solifi products to better understand customer goals and business drivers
- Controlling and monitoring timelines, resource allocation, dependencies, budgets, costs, and quality of deliverables
- Line management where appropriate of Business Analysts, setting objectives and reviewing performance
- Compliance with project delivery governance e.g. change management, risk & issue management, financial reporting and status reporting
- Leading key stakeholder interactions, for example steering group meetings
- Working daily with delivery teams to ensure planned activities are understood and progressing on track
- Liaising with third parties where appropriate to ensure external tasks are tracked and delivered on time, on budget and to the required level of quality
- Managing escalations, risks and issues
About You
- Demonstrable track record working as a Project Manager within software delivery with responsibility for budgets up to 2mm
- 3+ Years Experience of working within a recognized project management methodology
- Comfortable delivering project to external clients, and managing both internal and external stakeholders
- Previous experience of delivering projects with delivery teams from multiple geographies and time zones would be advantageous
- Willingness to work away from home & travel to client sites when required
- Proficient with Microsoft PowerPoint & Excel
- Previous experience working with financial services or asset finance firms would be advantageous
- Previous experience working with high AOV FinTech solutions desirable
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Application advice
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⭐ Lead your CV personal statement with explicit SaaS project management experience, as the advert opens with this as the primary requirement.
📊 Quantify your budget management credentials clearly, e.g. 'Managed concurrent SaaS implementation projects with combined budgets of £1.8M across 6 enterprise clients'.
🎯 Highlight FinTech or finance software sector experience prominently — the advert states this is 'highly beneficial' and the client serves banks, asset finance providers and automotive lenders.
🤝 Showcase your stakeholder management experience across distributed teams, referencing steering group facilitation and third-party liaison, both explicitly called out in the responsibilities.
🌐 Reference your familiarity with a recognised project management methodology (PRINCE2, PMP, or Agile/Scrum) as the advert requires 3+ years working within one — name the specific methodology you hold or practise.
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- •Delivered 8 concurrent SaaS implementation projects for enterprise financial services clients, maintaining 96% on-time delivery rate against agreed milestones across a combined budget of £3.2M.
- •Led steering group meetings and managed risk and change governance for a £900k bespoke development programme at a Tier 1 bank, reducing scope creep incidents by 40% through structured change control.
- •Line-managed a team of 3 Business Analysts across 5 active projects, setting quarterly objectives and conducting performance reviews that contributed to a 25% improvement in requirements delivery accuracy.
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Dear Hiring Manager,
Matched Group's search for a SaaS Project Manager within a scaling FinTech vendor is a strong match for my background in software delivery and enterprise client management. Having managed concurrent SaaS implementation projects with budgets exceeding £1.5M, and with direct experience navigating the governance demands of financial services clients — including change management, risk registers and steering group facilitation — I am well placed to contribute from day one.
My background in SaaS project delivery spans mid-market and enterprise clients, where I have led cross-functional distributed teams, managed third-party dependencies, and maintained client satisfaction through structured communication plans and rigorous delivery governance. I have worked within PRINCE2 and Agile frameworks, adapting methodology to the needs of each engagement.
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Interview questions
10 questions generated from this advert.
Technical
- ›Walk us through how you structure a project mandate for a new SaaS implementation with an enterprise financial services client.
- ›How do you manage dependencies and resource allocation across multiple concurrent SaaS delivery projects?
- ›Describe your approach to financial reporting and budget tracking on a project with a £500k–£1M budget.
- ›What project management methodology do you follow, and how have you adapted it for software delivery in a SaaS environment?
- ›How do you manage change requests from enterprise clients mid-project without compromising delivery timelines or budget?
Behavioural
- ›Tell me about a time you managed a significant escalation from an enterprise client — what was the situation and how did you resolve it?
- ›Describe a project where you had to manage competing priorities across multiple stakeholders. How did you keep everyone aligned?
- ›Give an example of a project that was at risk of going over budget. What actions did you take and what was the outcome?
- ›Tell me about a time you had to line-manage a Business Analyst who was underperforming. How did you handle it?
- ›Describe a situation where a third-party dependency threatened your project timeline. How did you mitigate the risk?
STAR answer examples
Model answers using the Situation-Task-Action-Result framework. Adapt to your own experience.
Tell me about a time you managed a significant escalation from an enterprise client — what was the situation and how did you resolve it?
Give an example of a project that was at risk of going over budget. What actions did you take and what was the outcome?