Description
IT Project Leader (Asset Servicing)
Role:
We are currently looking for an IT Project Leader.
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
- experience with (functional) projects in Financial sector
- min. 1 year assignment within the same project
- speak/write English fluently
Additional Requirements
- PL experience with IT Mainframe application development
- 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
- Knowledge of Settlement business domain
- Certification in PRINCE 2 and/or PMI (or similar IT frameworks)