IT Project Manager - Software package implementations

Technical skills

• Experience in managing projects with regard to the implementation of a software package or with cross platforms implementations
• Experience with outsourcing partner/offshoring
• Knowledge of Asset servicing and Tax business domain
• Certification in PRINCE 2 and/or PMI (or similar IT frameworks)
• Fluent in English

Soft skills

• Strong leadership skills to adapt your style according to the situation and to the different stakeholders
• Good business and/or technical understanding
• Interpersonal skills to influence decisions taken with the project sponsor/client
• Excellent communication skills (listening, writing and presenting) at all levels, from staff members to senior management
• Ability to learn quickly in a complex environment and to synthesize the situation
• Strong negotiation skills, conflict management and influencing skills at different levels of management
• Effective delegation of tasks and responsibilities while maintaining overall control
• Assertiveness to drive tasks to completion

Your role

• Develop and maintain project plans and forecasts, including resource requirements, costs, risks and their mitigations and dependencies with other projects
• Manage virtual teams across various divisions and entities, including third party suppliers in India
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with your customers, providing advice, guidance and options with regards IT investments
• Define deliverables, assign their production to project team members and monitor progress and quality of those deliverables, ensuring they respect the planning while maintaining good relationships
• Manage the staffing of assigned projects and monitor budget spent
• Lead the risk, issue and change control processes for assigned projects, build action plan to mitigate risks/solve issues and track action items
• Control and monitor the progress of projects, reporting to the Roadmap Manager and the Sponsorship Committee
• Manage the project according to the company internal standards (methodology & tools)
• Delivery of the project scope on time, budget and with the expected quality
• Writing of comprehensive project memos, allowing the Business Sponsor and IT management to take relevant decisions
• Providing regular status to Project Sponsor/various stakeholders
• Monitoring of the expected benefits approved in the business cases