Project Leader for Asset Servicing

Project Leader for Asset Servicing

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

Your role

You will be 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 Euroclear internal standards (methodology & tools)

Your Profile:
min 10 years experience in project management (ie plan, control and monitor a project execution)
used to manage major and critical projects of more than 10000 mandays and/or multiple projects concurrently
experience in managing software developments within the financial sector
experience with outsourcing partners
min. 10 years experience in Custody/Asset Servicing
knowledge of Settlement domain is a strong asset

You possess strong interpersonal skills:
Strong leadership skills with the ability to adapt the leadership style according to the situation and to the different stakeholders
Excellent communication skills (listening, writing and presenting) 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
Ability to effectively delegate tasks and responsibilities while maintaining overall control and being persistent and assertive in driving tasks to completion
Strong ability to manage changes
Ability to deal with conflicting priorities
Experience with LEAN is an asset
Fluent in English (oral/written), French or Dutch is an asset
A certification in PRINCE 2 and/or PMI, or similar IT frameworks, will be considered as an asset.