Project Manager Tax Reporting

For our banking client based in Zurich we are currently looking for a

Project Manager in Fatca Reporting

Location: Zurich

Start date: 01.06.2014

Duration: 6 months

Languages German and English

Main scope:

Build infrastructure for new FATCA Reporting (form 8966) and enhance existing QI (Qualified Intermediary) Reporting (form 1042/1042-S) for Reportings due in 1Q2015 and subsequent yearly extensions (FATCA und QI know-how; especially reporting)

Activities include:

- Manage the (change) requests and integrate impacts into plans
- Ensure adherence to project management standards
- Plan for execution of all engineering and non engineering activities within the project by using previous best practices from organization's process asset library
- Identify and manage risks to the project
- Identify and manage issues, ownership and resolutions
- Plan and optimize utilization of allocated project resources
- Review and challenge effort estimates from all roles (RE, SA/SE, TE, QM, LM)
- Appraisal of project resources with PPR (project performance review)
- Manage dependencies with other projects, teams and stakeholders
- Run project status meetings, monitor project progress on regular basis and communicate the project status report to all stakeholders
- Manage project quality and ensure quality and consistency of all deliverables and ensure appropriate sign off of deliverables
- Contribute best practices, lessons learnt and measurement data from project to organization's process asset library
- Providing support for financials tracking (budget and actuals),
- Change 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

Additional:

- CS Background (Tools like OnePPM, CS SDF, etc.)
- MS Office especially Excel and Powerpoint (must)
- English (must)
- German (must)
- Ability to work in a flexible environment with partly vague and changing (regulatory) requirements
- Ability to challenge Business (scope, budget, etc.)
- FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act) Client Reporting Domain know how.
- PM Methodologies according to PMBOK (PMP certificate)
- Agile methodologies (SCRUM/KANBAN)Michael Bailey International is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.