Description
IT Project Leader with Settlements, Banking Brussels
Interesting and diverse role involves working in a challenging environment, taking full ownership of your initiatives and committing on the quality of the production.
You are responsible for the end to end delivery of your projects, including:
- Writing of project memos, allowing 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
To be successful, you will have to:
- Manage virtual teams across various divisions and entities, including third party suppliers in India
- Build and maintain strong 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/dependencies with other projects
- Define deliverables, assign their production to project team members; monitor progress and quality of those deliverables
- Manage the staffing of assigned projects and monitor budget spent
- Control and monitor the progress of projects, reporting to the Roadmap Manager and the Sponsorship Committee
- Manage the project according to the banks internal standards (methodology & tools)
The chosen candidate will have the following:
- 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
Certification in PRINCE 2 and/or PMI, or similar IT frameworks
- Experience with outsourcing partners
- Knowledge of Settlement
- min. 1 year assignment within the same project
- speak/write English fluently
Interpersonal skills:
° Strong leadership skills to direct staff, resolve issues to ensure project goals and requirements are met
° Excellent communication skills at all levelsl
° Ability to quickly learn in a complex environment
° Good business and technical understanding to influence decisions taken with the project sponsor/client
° Strong negotiation and conflict management skills
° Efficiently delegate tasks and responsibilities while maintaining overall control
° Be persistent and assertive in driving tasks to completion
REF:NK052
Location:Brussels
Rate: Euros per day
Language: English speaking role