Project Manager

Project Manager:

The PM will be responsible for the development and maintenance of our mission critical applications, end-to-end responsibility for delivery of assigned projects, collaborating with stakeholders, IT delivery teams and third party service providers to manage deliverables in terms of time, cost, quality, scope and risk.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage a multi-disciplinary team comprising of a range of technical skills
• Create, obtain approval for and manage project budgets
• Set resource requirements to achieve project objectives
• Create the project charter and manage all aspects of project governance
• Create the project plan, identify and sequence activities and produce the project’s work breakdown structure
• Design and plan the project and proactively monitor and control its overall progress against the delivery schedule
• Deliver timely and accurate status reports regarding progress of the project at Steering meetings
• PM risks and issues that may impact the project to ensure they are controlled effectively and understood by stakeholders, developing innovative solutions and initiating corrective action as appropriate so as to resolve matters
• PM communications with stakeholders, third parties and internally within the project delivery team
• PM co-ordination and inter-dependencies with other projects
• PM third party outsourced provider(s) to deliver to the project’s expectations
• Create the project’s quality assurance processes
• Begin activities and manage interventions where gaps in the project are identified or issues arise
• Deliver leadership and direction to work streams including Technical Analysis, Application Development, Infrastructure and QA Testing
• Work with the Business and technical experts to define business requirements and pragmatic solutions
• Manage and plan acceptance into service of the project’s implementations into the production environment
• PM business initiatives arising out of new or changing compliance or regulatory reporting requirements

Experience:

-No less than 5 years of project management experience
-Proven commercial experience in the full breadth of project management processes across the development lifecycle
-Proven commercial experience of Agile/SCRUM methodologies would be helpful, though not a prerequisite

Competencies:

-Focused on delivery with a strong aptitude for team motivation
-Highly organised and structured approach to working
-Top level facilitation and communication skills, both written & verbal
-Excellent leadership and coaching skills
-Proven ability to interact effectively with both technical and business personnel