Description
Finance Project Leader, Banking, Brussels.
Major banking client is looking for a senior Project Leader to work on the Finance Architecture, Support and Transformation team within Finance.
The successful candidate will be required to:
- Build and maintain strong working relationships with customers and other stakeholders, providing advice, guidance and options with regards IT & Finance 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.
- Control and monitor the progress of projects, reporting to the Roadmap Manager and the Sponsorship Committee in the required format and the provision of other reporting as required.
- Manage the project according to the Banks internal standards (methodology & tools).
Role involves working in a challenging environment and taking full ownership of his/her initiatives and committing on the quality of the production.
You will be responsible for the end to end delivery of your projects, including:
- Writing of comprehensive project memos, allowing the management to take relevant decisions
- Prepare business cases & follow-up actions.
- Delivery of the project scope with the given timescales, within budget and to high standards of quality.
Skills required:
- A minimum of 8 years experience in project management (ie plan, control and monitor a project execution).
- Experience in managing finance software developments (Oracle EBS & BI experience is a asset).
- Experience with outsourcing partners.
- You have strong interpersonal skills.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to adapt the leadership style according to the situation and to the different stakeholders.
- Excellent communication skills (listening, writing and presenting) 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.
- Ability to effectively delegate tasks and responsibilities while maintaining overall control and being persistent and assertive in driving tasks to completion.
- Strong ability to manage changes.
- Ability to deal with conflicting priorities.
- Fluent in English (oral/written), French or Dutch would be an asset.
- A certification in PRINCE 2 and/or PMI, or similar IT frameworks, will be considered as an asset.
Ref: NK033
Languages: English and French or Dutch
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Duration: 6-12 months
Salary: Euros per day
Start date: Immediate