Senior Project Manager/Scrum Master - Banking

Senior Project Manager/Scrum Master sought by our client, a Tier One investment bank based here in Zurich. This is a vital role in a globally facing organisation, and one that is likely to provide a wealth of challenges and experiences that vary day by day.

Role:

- 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
- Appraisal of project resources with PPR (project performance review)
- Manage dependencies with other 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

Requirements:

Must haves:

- Fluent English
- Fluent German
- Experience with Agile methodologies
- Experience with software development and integration projects
- Experience with MS Office, especially Excel and Powerpoint

Nice to haves:

- PMI Certificate
- Scrum Master certificate
- Domain knowledge within investment reporting
- Domain knowledge within Identity and Access Management