Description
IT Project Leader - Contract - Financial Services - Brussels
Company
Our client is the financial industry's trusted provider of post trade services. They provide settlement, safe-keeping and servicing of domestic and cross-border securities for bonds, equities and derivatives to investment funds. Our client is a proven, resilient capital market infrastructure committed to delivering risk-mitigation, automation and efficiency at scale for its global client franchise. Our client has its headquarters in Brussels and has offices across Europe.
Role
Our client is looking for an IT Project Leader with 3 to 10 years' experience in an IT Project Management role or equivalent experience in the core activities of the function (ie plan, control and monitor a project execution) to join the Application Development and Maintenance division.
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 per internal standards (methodology & tools)
Skill set
MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS:
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
Experience with (functional) projects in Financial sector
Min. 1 year assignment within the same project
PL experience with IT Mainframe application development
Speak/write English fluently
Additional Requirements:
Strong leadership skills to adapt your style per 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
Knowledge of Settlement business domain
Certification in PRINCE 2 and/or PMI (or similar IT frameworks)
Experience with implementation of a software package or with cross platforms implementation
Experience with stress testing
Contact
If you are interested in hearing more or interested in the opportunity, feel free to submit your CV to Maya on (see below)