Description
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 Euroclear internal standards (methodology & tools)
Your Profile:
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 mandays), 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
. Previous Euroclear experience
. Experience with outsourcing partner/offshoring
. Knowledge of Settlement business domain
. Certification in PRINCE 2 and/or PMI (or similar IT frameworks)