Senior Project Manager (Applications) - Finance - 6 Month Contract - S

Sydney  ‐ Onsite
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Are you a Project Manager with Applications project experience? Do you have experience in the Insurance industry? If the answer to both questions are yes, one of the largest and most renowned financial services providers is looking for you...

As the Applications Project Manager you will be responsible for the delivery of quality solutions to the Customer through managing the end-to-end delivery of projects within budget, specification and to an agreed timetable.

Work on a high profile Claims project with an approximate value of $3m. This is a critical project and if you think you have what it takes to deliver, please apply now.

Your role will include the following responsibilities:

  • Clear and agreed &roadmap& for the project, including logical breakdown of the overall project into Stages or sub-projects or streams
  • Where significant business issues require resolution before detailed scoping and planning can proceed, identify, research and document the issue, options, impacts, pros/cons and recommendation. Manage resolution
  • Establish quality criteria with business sponsor/owner during Project Initiation phase. Clearly articulate agreed levels of quality
  • Produce an integrated project plan capable of being used to communicate project approach, size, timeframes, stages and deliverables to a wide ranging audience
  • Integrated gantt chart for multiple streams/sub-projects showing interdependencies between them
  • Demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of various model of project life cycles and approaches, offering options and recommendations on these early in the project life cycle; reviewing and adapting (with appropriate review and approval of Steering Committee) if current approach is not working
  • Constructively challenge proposed project organisation structure which could impose risk on the project
  • Manage other project management resources and senior team leaders within the core project team - guide them in 
  • finding the ways and means to achieve project/sub-project/stream outcomes
  • Put in place Engagement Model with new vendors/business partners and refine if necessary
  • Select Vendors through Tender/Request for Information/Proposal process
You should have the following skills and experience:
  • Solid Project Management experience
  • Experience of Application Development projects
  • Proven track record in delivering projects which incorporate a significant systems component
  • Experience in Agile development of projects - Scrum in particular
  • Insurance business and systems knowledge
  • Strong stakeholder management
  • Project Management Certification is a distinct advantage
  • Working within a Matrix environment, need excellent communication skills and ability to multi-task
  • Managed projects with budgets larger than $2m, either single project or cumulative at any one time 
  • Managed projects that have involved at least 4 systems that are either new applications or changes to existing applications or systems
  • Has experience in managing Project Managers or Team Leads  
If your skills and experience match the above criteria, please apply via the link and contact James Perry.
Start date
n.a
Duration
6 month initial contract
From
Paxus (Sydney)
Published at
31.12.2011
Project ID:
288294
Contract type
Freelance
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