Project Manager

Harvey Nash is looking for a Project Manager for a 6 month project in Switzerland.

You are responsible for:

. Managing the change requests and integrate impacts into plans
. Ensuring adherence to project management standards
. Planning for execution of all engineering and non engineering activities within the project by using previous best practices from organization's process asset library
. Identifying and managing risks to the project
. Identifying and managing issues, ownership and resolutions
. Planning and optimizing utilization of allocated project resources
. Appraisal of project resources with PPR (project performance review)
. Managing dependencies with other teams and stakeholders
. Running project status meetings, monitor project progress on regular basis and communicate the project status report to all stakeholders
. Managing project quality and ensuring quality and consistency of all deliverables and ensuring appropriate sign off of deliverables
. Contributing best practices, lessons learnt and measurement data from project to organization's process asset library
. Providing support for financials tracking (budget and actuals),
. Changing request management, tracking of project effort, milestone tracking, tracking of risks, issues and dependencies
. Supporting stakeholder and business client management (status reporting) interactions as well as general logistical, process, toolset and administrative support for the IT Project and Program Manager
. Organizing and coordinating meetings, events and facilities

Requirements:

. Sound background in project management of software delivery Projects
. Strong capabilities in methodologies and tools to perform all project management as well as project management office activities.
. Good leadership skills to drive implementation of a defined set of features through all phases (eg requirements engineering, development, testing, go life).
. Banking know how is of advantage, in particular tax and or regulatory know how. Also experience with market sfotware (eg EasyTax) is of advantage.
. PMP certification would be nice
. CS experience is of advantage (eg experience with tools like OnePPM, CS SDF)
. MS Office especially Excel and Powerpoint (must)
. English (must)
. German (must)