Key Responsibilities:
Stakeholder and Communications Management
- Manage all aspects of project and change request engagement from planning, external vendor relationships, communications, resources, budget, change, risks and issues
- Continually manage project and change request expectations while delegating and managing deliverable with team members and stakeholders
- Determine the frequency and content of status reports from the project and change request team, analyse results and troubleshoot problem areas
- Deliver appropriate and effective executive level communication
- Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating across leadership and business stakeholders
Process and Delivery Execution
- Manage a portfolio of complex initiatives that span one or multiple lines of business
- Full project life cycle ownership to ensure successful project delivery
- Manage all aspects of the projects to ensure the overall program is aligned to and directly supports the achievement of strategic objectives
- Prepare detailed project plan for all phases of the project
- Ensure assignment of adequate resources to achieve project objectives in planned timeframes
- Manage the day-to-day project activities and resources and chairs the project management team meetings
- Understand interdependencies between technology, operations and business needs
- Manage project scope and changes
- Act as an internal quality control check for the project
- Manage ongoing quality control and participate in quality issue resolution
- Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel
- Monitor, track and control outcomes to resolve issues, conflicts, dependencies and critical path deliverables
- Ensure that projects and change requests are proceeding according to scope, schedule, budget and quality standards
- Manage project and change request issues and risks to mitigate impact to baseline
Skills Required:
- Bachelor’s Degree in appropriate field of study or equivalent work experience
- Proven working experience in IT project management in a banking environment and in treasury products related.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) / PRINCE II certification is a plus
- Murex knowledge is a plus
- Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills
- Ability to multi-task and perform well under pressure
