Project Manager

SUMMARY:
Non-Negotiable Requirements:

• Project manager (5-10 years project manager) with minimum 3-5 year
• Agile Scrum Master practical experience beneficial
• Credit Risk experience within Corporate and Investment Banking is required
• Extensive Experience at:
• Product owner interaction and engagement
• Practical experience is critical so that they can guide the team
• Beneficial to have experience on new projects as well as ongoing system support
• Ability to manage a number of dependencies outside their project
• Project Management Certification
• Agile Project Management Certification

POSITION INFO:
Specific Additional Experience:

• Ability to deal with ambiguity, complexity, challenging stakeholders, and tight deadlines

• End-to-end delivery of projects. To plan, direct, and coordinate the activities of enterprise-wide projects to ensure that project goals are accomplished and to develop project plans specifying goals, strategy, staffing, scheduling, identification of risks, contingency plans, and allocation of available resources, in line with the business strategy. The Project Manager will also monitor and report on project and deliverable progress, run agile ceremonies, and provide mentorship and coaching on agile best practices. The Project Manager will also ensure the team is working on the right tasks at the right time, working closely with the product manager to translate epics, stories, and other items on the sprint list into actionable tasks for the delivery team
• Ensure client needs are accurately captured in scope and that the change management process is led and supported together with the client
• Managed project priorities effectively and ensured dependencies were catered for according to the project scope
• Manage delivery of large and complex projects according to prevailing project management methodology. That business change impact is conducted across processes, systems, and technology in accordance with the change management plan
• Provide expert-level guidance to the software project team in terms of process, system, tools, methods, as well as communication, integration, and successful team dynamics through weekly facilitation sessions. Manage the scope of work, budget, timeframes, and quality of deliverables
• Identify project stakeholders, communicate their roles, define their level of participation in the project, and map their communication needs and stakeholder engagement strategies throughout the project plan. Be able to structure and lead multidisciplinary and multi-level stakeholder engagements with the ability to synthesize and communicate in a non-technical language
• Ensure each stakeholder group is actively managed through the change cycle. Engage and facilitate with multiple diverse groups across a spectrum of wants and needs. Build professional relationships through engagement and regular communication and feedback with all stakeholders, using quality metrics and project status reports as drivers
• Ensure satisfactory post implementation review and perform retrospectives/inspect and adapt sessions as required
• Ensure roles and strategies are defined, and behaviors and operations are understood, optimal resource allocation, and enable a high-performing environment
• Ensure optimal risk management strategies are in place and that project budgets are managed within project scope
• Consider processes, business, technology, and people to implement changes
• Ensure traceability of defined benefits throughout the lifecycle of the project and escalate any deviations
• Ensure adherence to PMO minimum standards

• Sizing, Scoping, Costing, Baseline Project Plans, Risk Management, Quality Plan, Communication
• Evaluate and assess the effectiveness of the minimum standards and suggest necessary changes to PMO if necessary

• Build and maintain effective relationships with all key stakeholders to facilitate organizational effectiveness
• Identify areas of concern in terms of reporting and use influence to debate and agree on the best way forward
• Act speedily to resolve problems, queries, and complaints
• Use influence and negotiation to achieve win-win outcomes
• Initiate meetings with key stakeholders to track progress, manage expectations, and ensure clients’ needs are met
• Proactively communicate and share information and encourage discussion and debate (share successes, highlight challenges, and identify and manage risks)
• Read the cultural environment and adapt communication style to meet the needs of different audiences
• Anticipate and manage conflict, demonstrating an ability to resolve differences, particularly where these may be stalling the implementation of agreed plans