IT Project Lead

Division:

The ADM (Application Development and Maintenance) division ensures our client's competitiveness by defining and delivering reliable and sustainable IT solutions for the financial securities markets.

They are looking for an IT Project Leader:

You will work in a challenging environment, taking full ownership of your initiatives and committing on the quality of the production.

You are responsible for the end to end delivery of your projects, including:
- Writing of project memos, allowing management to take relevant decisions
- Delivery of the project scope on time, on budget, and with the expected quality
- Monitoring of the expected benefits approved in the business cases

To be successful, you will have to:
- Manage virtual teams across various divisions and entities, including third party suppliers in India
- Build and maintain strong relationships with your customers (providing advice, guidance and options with regards IT investments)
- Develop and maintain project plans and forecasts (including resource requirements, costs, risks) and their mitigations/dependencies with other projects
- Define deliverables, assign their production to project team members; monitor progress and quality of those deliverables
- Manage the staffing of assigned projects and monitor budget spent
- Control and monitor the progress of projects, reporting to the Roadmap Manager and the Sponsorship Committee
- Manage the project according to the internal standards (methodology & tools)

Your Profile:

- 3 to 10 years in a project management role or equivalent experience in the core activities of the function (ie plan, control and monitor a project execution)
- experience in managing major and critical projects (> 2000 mandays), including team coordination
- experience with (functional) projects in Financial sector
- min. 1 year assignment within the same project
- speak/write English fluently

Interpersonal skills:
° Strong leadership skills to direct staff, resolve issues to ensure project goals and requirements are met
° Excellent communication skills at all levels, from staff members to senior management level
° Ability to quickly learn in a complex environment
° Good business and technical understanding to influence decisions taken with the project sponsor/client
° Strong negotiation and conflict management skills
° Efficiently delegate tasks and responsibilities while maintaining overall control
° Be persistent and assertive in driving tasks to completion

Assets:
- Previous financial sector experience
- Certification in PRINCE 2 and/or PMI, or similar IT frameworks
- Experience with outsourcing partners
- Knowledge of Settlement