Description
NK147: Senior Project IT leader with Application Development expertise: Banking, Brussels
The division that ensures the bank's competitiveness by defining and delivering reliable and sustainable IT solutions for the financial securities markets is looking for an experienced Project IT leader with at least 5 years IT project Management experience in managing major and critical projects. The chosen candidate must have experience with functional projects in Financial Banking sector within the application development.
Role involves:
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)
REQUIREMENTS
minimum of 5 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
PL experience within IT Mainframe application development area
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
effective delegation of tasks and responsibilities while maintaining overall control
assertiveness to drive tasks to completion
speak/write English fluently
Would be advantageous to have:
* Experience with outsourcing partner/offshoring
* Knowledge of Collateral 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
Reference: NK147
Location; Brussels
Language: English
Duration: 6 months extendable
Rate: euros per day