Description
IT Project Leader (Easyway)
The ADM (Application Development and Maintenance) division ensures competitiveness by defining and delivering reliable and sustainable IT solutions for the financial securities markets.
Role:
We are currently looking for an IT Project Leader to join our Easyway Department.
EasyWay is an innovative tool for web-based access to services, providing enhanced Real Time risk control and more effective decision making.
You will work in a challenging environment, taking full ownership of your initiatives and committing on the quality of the production.
You are responsible for the end to end delivery of your projects, including:
- Writing of comprehensive project memos, allowing the management to take relevant decisions
- Delivery of the project scope on time, on budget, and with the expected quality
- Monitoring of the expected benefits approved in the business cases
Your main activities:
- 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
- Develop and maintain project plans and forecasts, including resource requirements, costs, risks and their mitigations and dependencies with other projects
- Define deliverables, assign their production to project team members and monitor progress and quality of those deliverables
- Manage the staffing of assigned projects and monitor budget spent
- Lead the risk, issue and change control processes for assigned projects and track action items
- Manage the project according to the internal standards (methodology & tools)
Profile:
MANDATORY
- 3 to 10 years in a project management role or equivalent experience in the core activities of the function (ie plan, control and monitor a project execution)
- Experience in managing major and critical projects (> 2000 man days), including team coordination
- Eexperience with (functional) projects in Financial sector
- Min. 1 year assignment within the same project
- Speak/write English fluently
Additional Requirements
- Strong leadership skills to adapt your style according to the situation and to the different stakeholders
- Good business and technical understanding (gained over several application development projects) and the interpersonal skills to influence decisions taken with the project sponsor/client Excellent communication skills at all levels, from staff members to senior management level
- 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
Assets
- Experience with outsourcing partner/offshoring
- Certification in PRINCE 2 and/or PMI (or similar IT frameworks)