IT Project Leader (Easyway)

IT Project Leader (Easyway)

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

ROLE:

We are currently looking for an IT Project Leader to join our Easyway Department.
EasyWay is an innovative tool for web-based access to services, providing enhanced Real Time risk control and more effective decision making.

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 comprehensive project memos, allowing the 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 

YOUR MAIN ACTIVITIES:

-Manage virtual teams across various divisions and entities, including third party suppliers in India
-Build and maintain strong working 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 and dependencies with other projects
-Define deliverables, assign their production to project team members and monitor progress and quality of those deliverables
-Manage the staffing of assigned projects and monitor budget spent
-Lead the risk, issue and change control processes for assigned projects and track action items
-Manage the project according to the internal standards (methodology & tools)

PROFILE:

MANDATORY

-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 man days), including team coordination
-Eexperience with (functional) projects in Financial sector
- Min. 1 year assignment within the same project
- Speak/write English fluently 

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

- Strong leadership skills to adapt your style according to the situation and to the different stakeholders
- Good business and technical understanding (gained over several application development projects) and the interpersonal skills to influence decisions taken with the project sponsor/client  Excellent communication skills at all levels, from staff members to senior management level
- Ability to learn quickly in a complex environment and to synthesize the situation
- Strong negotiation skills, conflict management and influencing skills at different levels of management
- Effective delegation of tasks and responsibilities while maintaining overall control
- Assertiveness to drive tasks to completion 

ASSETS

-Experience with outsourcing partner/offshoring
-Certification in PRINCE 2 and/or PMI (or similar IT frameworks)