Description
A leading Insurance company based in the Sydney CBD is urgently seeking a Project Manager on an 18 month fixed term contract.
Working on a group administration software, the role involves:
- Managing the project through the project life cycle, including developing charters, plans, schedules, and budgets; allocating resources; monitoring performance against schedule, budget, and quality targets; managing changes, issues and risks; and providing regular communication to program management and other areas within the organization.
- Establishing and maintaining effective communication with other project managers, cross-functional project teams, and internal/external customers in order to identify key plan tasks and due dates.
- Providing guidance in the application toolset required to code, test and troubleshoot applications for new development and on-going support, and direct the activities of all technical resources on the project.
- Ensuring business partners' expectations are met, gain understanding when desired outcomes are not feasible and provide alternative solutions to meet objective(s).
- Communicating with remote teams
Skills
- 6-8+yrs Project Management experience
- Extensive experience working with decentralised/remote teams
- Experience with rollouts/deployment of software
- Experience with business process change
- Banking/Financial Services experience, ideally Insurance
- Excellent communication skills is key.
Interested? Please apply online or send your updated CV.