Senior Project Manager Permanent

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to develop a project management scope of work and detailed plan to deliver the required solutions
• Develop project documentation including scope of work, budget, timelines and acceptance criteria
• Provide status reporting to senior management against milestones & budget, including any issues or risks identified
• Engage and drive stakeholders to deliver to the project plan, within scope, on time and to budget
• Identify, mitigate and communicate key assumptions, issues, risks and dependencies to master projects & relevant control and governance committees.
• Document any identified required changes and communicate them to the relevant parties. Facilitate the negotiation of requirements amongst multiple stakeholders. Ensure internal process, standards and risk compliance (including security, regulatory and audit requirements) are met
• Ensure resource availability and allocation
• Requirements management
• Stakeholder and communication management
• Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques
• Pursue opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Work across multiple projects/ initiatives at the same time
• Managing the day-to-day running of the Project and execution against the PMP.
• Mitigating and resolving risks and issues which may impair delivery.
• Ensuring Clarity is up to date including Project static data, status update including key milestones, financials, risks, issues and resource forecasts, and they are tracked & reported to governance forums.
• Ensuring that all submissions to committees are of the right quality and are timely.
• Delivering the Project’s products and processes into BAU.
• Implementing Project closure procedure.

COMPETENCIES (KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS):

• Minimum 10 years of experience in delivering major Infrastructure projects in the Banking industry, including accountability for IT solution delivery
• Network related products knowledge: cisco switches, routers, firewalls is required
• Banking regulation knowledge is preferred
• Stakeholder management experience working with senior level stakeholders to deliver change
• Proven experience with co-ordination of many dependencies and multiple demanding stakeholders in a complex, large-scale deployment environment
• Proven skills in coordination, staff management and leadership working with vendors and internal teams
• Leadership skills to coach, co-ordinate and grow a successful delivery team
• Excellent oral, written communication and presentation skills
• Ability to manage a diverse and challenging stakeholder community
• Strong technologist, ability to problem solve, self-starter, basic infrastructure knowledge, ability to work under pressure
• Strong project management experience with the ability to work on multiple projects
• Excellent interpersonal skills which lend themselves to team-oriented approach and able to work effectively as part of a team and as an individual
• Ability to think clearly and to resolve critical problems in a high-pressure environment
• Strong MS Excel, Microsoft Office/ Project skills
• Good in influencing skill
• Solid organisational skills including attention to detail and multitasking ability
• PMP/CSM Certification Desirable

Regards
Neha