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 (e.g. 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 (e.g. EasyTax) is of advantage.
* PMP certification would be nice
* CS experience is of advantage (e.g. experience with tools like OnePPM, CS SDF)
* MS Office especially Excel and Powerpoint (must)
* English (must)
* German (must)