Microsoft Project Planner SME  Market rate Contract - 1 month Remote working Start Date: ASAP We are looking for a Microsoft Project Planner SME to support a live programme by consolidating multiple existing plans into a single, accurate, and baseline-ready view. This is not a greenfield role—you will be working with plans already in place, improving quality, strengthening dependencies, and ensuring a clear, realistic path to completion. Key Responsibilities<ul><li>Consolidate external partner and internal plans into a single MS Project schedule</li><li>Define and validate the critical path, dependencies, and milestones</li><li>Challenge and validate updates from workstream leads, ensuring impacts on timelines are understood</li><li>Identify planning gaps, inconsistencies, and risks, and address them proactively</li><li>Ensure plans are accurate, current, and baseline-ready</li><li>Engage with delivery teams to extract key information and clarify assumptions</li><li>Provide clear, concise updates and insights back to the programme team</li></ul>Required Skills & Experience<ul><li>Strong expertise in Microsoft Project (essential)</li><li>Proven experience managing and improving complex programme plans</li><li>Ability to analyse dependencies and understand impact of schedule changes</li><li>Confident in challenging stakeholders and driving accountability</li><li>Excellent communication skills—able to extract information and present key messages clearly</li><li>Ability to hit the ground running and deliver value quickly</li></ul>Additional Information<ul><li>Fully remote with occasional in-person sessions</li><li>Immediate start required</li><li>Fast-paced environment requiring proactive, hands-on delivery</li></ul>If you’re a confident MS Project expert who can bring structure, challenge assumptions, and quickly improve programme planning, we’d love to hear from you.

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We are supporting the build-out of a specialised consulting team focused on the structural transformation of banks and insurers. This team works at the intersection of strategy and implementation, helping financial institutions redesign their operating models in response to evolving data, AI and technology landscapes. The Role You will work on complex transformation initiatives across banking and insurance clients, with a focus on how operating models, processes and decision-making structures evolve in a data-driven environment. Typical responsibilities include: <ul><li>Structuring complex client problems and developing clear, hypothesis-driven approaches</li><li>Designing target operating models and transformation roadmaps</li><li>Translating strategic concepts into implementation-ready initiatives</li><li>Working closely with senior stakeholders across business and IT</li><li>Contributing to the development of methodologies and consulting offerings</li></ul> Your Background We are looking for candidates with 2-5 years of experience in consulting or transformation-focused roles within financial services. You should bring exposure to at least two of the following areas: <ul><li>Operating model or organisational design</li><li>Data management, data governance or data strategy</li><li>Process optimisation or process architecture</li><li>IT strategy or digital transformation</li><li>AI or analytics use cases</li></ul> What This Role Offers <ul><li>Early responsibility and exposure to senior stakeholders</li><li>Involvement in shaping transformation programmes from concept through to execution</li><li>The opportunity to work on how financial institutions operate in the context of AI and data</li><li>A collaborative environment with a strong focus on quality and structured thinking</li><li>The chance to actively contribute to building a growing consulting capability</li></ul> <ul><li></li></ul>

Senior IT Management Consultant - Financial Services (m/f/d)

A specialised consultancy is expanding its team of information security experts. This role is focused on delivering practical, regulatory driven security and risk projects, not high level strategy slides. You’ll work directly with clients across financial services, critical infrastructure and other regulated industries. Key Responsibilities: <ul><li>Lead or support client projects in information security, IT risk and compliance – covering planning, execution and reporting</li><li>Conduct gap analyses and support the implementation of requirements under DORA, NIS2, KRITIS, ISO 27001 or IT-Grundschutz</li><li>Evaluate business and IT processes from a risk, efficiency and compliance perspective</li><li>Coordinate cyber risk remedation programmes and security governance frameworks</li><li>Help clients integrate security into existing processes and IT landscapes, including areas like IAM, SIEM or third-party risk</li><li>Build long-term relationships with clients and contribute to developing internal methods and service offerings</li></ul> Your Profile: <ul><li>Several years of experience in information security, IT compliance or cyber risk – ideally within consulting or project-based environments</li><li>Degree in IT, engineering, business IT or a related field</li><li>Strong understanding of common security frameworks and standards</li><li>Practical experience in analysing complex systems and explaining risks and controls clearly</li><li>Very good communication skills in both German and English</li><li>Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CISA or ISO 27001 Lead Implementer are a plus, but not a must</li></ul>

Principal Consultant - Information Security (m/f/d)

Für eine Beratung suche ich aktuell einen erfahrenen Consultant auf Manager-Level, der Kunden insbesondere bei IT-Compliance-Themen sowie Identity & Access Management / Privileged Access Management unterstützt. Die Rolle kombiniert strategische Beratung mit Verantwortung für komplexe Projekte im Bereich Governance, Zugriffssicherheit und regulatorische Anforderungen. Ihre Aufgaben <ul><li>Leitung und Steuerung von Beratungsprojekten im Umfeld IT Compliance, Information Security Governance sowie Identity Security</li><li>Konzeption, Einführung und Weiterentwicklung von Information Security Management Systemen (ISMS), insbesondere auf Basis von ISO 27001</li><li>Beratung von Kunden zu regulatorischen Anforderungen und Compliance-Frameworks wie NIST, DORA oder dem EU AI Act</li><li>Entwicklung und Umsetzung von Identity & Access Management (IAM) sowie Privileged Access Management (PAM) Strategien und Zielarchitekturen</li><li>Analyse und Optimierung von Berechtigungsstrukturen, Rollenmodellen und Zugriffskontrollen</li><li>Unterstützung bei der Einführung oder Weiterentwicklung von Governance-Prozessen rund um Identity Lifecycle Management und Access Governance</li><li>Durchführung von Risikoanalysen sowie Ableitung geeigneter Massnahmen zur Reduzierung von Compliance- und Sicherheitsrisiken</li><li>Ansprechpartner für Fachbereiche und Management bei Fragestellungen rund um Zugriffssicherheit, Governance und regulatorische Anforderungen</li></ul> Ihr Profil <ul><li>Studium im Bereich Informatik, Wirtschaftsinformatik, Naturwissenschaften oder eine vergleichbare Qualifikation</li><li>Mehrjährige Erfahrung im Bereich IT Compliance, Identity & Access Management oder Information Security Governance – idealerweise im Beratungsumfeld</li><li>Fundierte Kenntnisse relevanter Standards und regulatorischer Anforderungen (z. B. ISO 27001, NIST, DORA, EU AI Act)</li><li>Erfahrung mit IAM- oder PAM-Konzepten, Access Governance sowie Berechtigungsmanagement</li><li>Erfahrung in der Steuerung von Projekten oder Programmen im Security- oder Compliance-Umfeld</li><li>Zertifizierungen wie CISM, CISA, CISSP oder vergleichbare Qualifikationen sind von Vorteil</li><li>Ausgeprägte Kommunikationsfähigkeit sowie sicheres Auftreten gegenüber Kunden und Stakeholdern</li></ul>

Consulting Manager – IT Compliance & IAM/PAM (m/w/d)

​Shakir joined Xcede in 2020, he is a skilled Senior Consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the staffing and recruiting industry across the IT space. As his role is delivery focused, Shakir supports the Xcede team on a variety of urgent roles. His primary focus is on contract technology positions across the UK. 

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