Project Manager Description:
We are looking for confident Project managers who would be responsible for managing the overall
deliverables for an assigned project, including budgeting, scheduling and resource loading. Project
management activities include estimation, planning/scheduling, progress reporting, and coordination with various business, operations and technical disciplines. The PM must understand the overall direction, priority, and schedules to execute the project and work with various discipline leads to deliver successful solutions to the stakeholders.
Project Manager Responsibilities:
- Develop the project schedule and plan to ensure timely completion of the project. Obtain stakeholders agreement with the project plan and timeline, and advise of any obstacles or resource needs that may affect completion of the project as planned.
- Assigned projects are to be managed in line with the PMO's project methodology.
- Effectively planning and managing assigned projects, ensuring delivery within agreed budget and timescales through all stages of the software development lifecycle.
- Planning and coordinating the engagement of all project resources including internal business/technical resources and vendor/external resources.
- Proactively leading resources to ensure that they are working efficiently and achieving the objectives set for them which would include creating scheduled meetings with the team to monitor progress and concerns on a weekly basis. The project manager must also ensure that meeting attendees are issued with reading materials in advance.
- Managing risks and issues which have been identified by engaging the relevant teams to address them and to follow-up till resolution.
- To prepare Management status reports which are accurate and concise to reflect project progress in a timely manner.
- Working closely with the Bank's Project Management Office to ensure that cross project and system interdependencies are identified and managed accordingly.
- All project communications must timely, relevant and appropriate to the audience.
- Govern the Change Management process to ensure the original project scope is tightly controlled and any deviations or changes have the necessary formal approvals in-place.
- Conduct project post mortems & create a recommendations report in order to identify successful & unsuccessful project elements.
Project Manager Requirements:
- Professional IT qualification/IT degree/related degree or diploma.
- > 4 years Project Management experience preferably within the Banking/Financial Services sector though candidates from other sectors are also welcomed to apply.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred.
- Proven ability to solve problems creatively.
- Strong familiarity with project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices.
- Experience seeing projects through the entire Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
- Excellent analytical skills and experience presenting to Senior Management stakeholders.
- Strong interpersonal skills and resourceful in finding solutions or leveraging on existing teams skillsets to advance the project.
