IT Project Leader Mainframe Banking, Brussels

IT Project Leader Mainframe Banking, Brussels.

The division that ensures the bank's competitiveness by defining and delivering reliable and sustainable IT solutions for the financial securities markets is looking for a a IT project leader.

Role involves:

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 banks internal standards (methodology & tools)

YOUR PROFILE:

MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS:
? 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
? PL experience with IT Mainframe application development
? 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

You must have the following skills in order to be considered:

* 3 to 10 years experience in an IT 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/Banking sector within Application Development area
* PL experience with IT Mainframe application development
* Speak/write English fluently

Assets
* Experience with outsourcing partner/offshoring
* Knowledge of Settlement business domain
* Certification in PRINCE 2 and/or PMI (or similar IT frameworks)
* Experience with implementation of a software package or with cross platforms implementation
* Experience with stress testing

Reference: NK179

Location: Brussels

Rate: 550-575 euros per day

Duration: 12 months

Start date: ASAP