Project Leader

Mission
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

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 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
- Control and monitor the progress of projects, reporting to the Roadmap Manager and the Sponsorship Committee in the required format and the provision of other reporting as required
- Manage the project according to the internal standards (methodology & tools)

Profile
- You have 3-10 years in a project management role or have an equivalent experience in the core activities of the function (i.e. plan, control and monitor a project execution)
- You have proven experience in managing major and critical projects (more than 3000 mandays) and/or multiple projects concurrently

Interpersonal skills :
o Strong leadership skills to adapt your style according to the situation and to the different stakeholders
o Excellent communication skills (listening, writing and presenting) at all levels, from staff members to senior management level
o Ability to learn quickly in a complex environment and to synthesize the situation
o Strong negotiation skills, conflict management and influencing skills at different levels of management
o Effectively delegate tasks and responsibilities while maintaining overall control and being persistent and assertive in driving tasks to completion
- Experience in Financial sector
- Knowledge of Settlement is a strong asset
- Experience with outsourcing projects is a strong asset
- Experience with LEAN is an asset
- You speak/write English fluently
- A certification in PRINCE 2 and/or PMI, or similar IT frameworks, will be considered as an asset.