Senior Project Manager

Advanced Resource Managers Ltd; Dublin; On-site; EUR 140,000 - 170,000; Part time

Job summary

Advanced Resource Managers Ltd is seeking a Programme Manager for a Dublin-based 2-3 year contract, onsite 3 days a week. You will manage complex multi-stream projects in financial services, ensuring scope, schedule, budget, risk and governance are controlled.

You will partner with Product Owner and IT teams, drive governance, monitor benefits, and report progress to senior stakeholders; a strong background in financial risk and stakeholder management is essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience in project management in financial services.
• Experience delivering complex projects and strong presentation skills.
• Highly experienced in financial, stakeholder and people management.
• Experience working on projects through full life-cycle (initiation to closing).
• Experience or knowledge of Financial Risk is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Planning & Management: document project scope, schedule and monitor delivery; organise Governance Fora; prepare progress reports; manage budget and invoicing.
• Workforce Management: analyse transformation strategy and design future workforce capabilities and teams structures.
• Dependency Management: coordinate external dependencies across the Programme.
• Risk Management: communicate and manage Programme risks.
• Programme Roadmap: maintain a standardised visualisation of the roadmap of inflight deliverables and roadmap of upcoming items.
• Monitoring Outcomes: monitor benefits realisation with key outcome metrics.
• Business Case & Financial Governance: coordinate and manage business case and financial management to project close out.
• Product Owner and IT Partnership: partner with Product Owner and Solutions Delivery Manager.
• Continuous Improvement: evolve governance processes and ways of working.
• Decision Making: identify and escalate decisions with significant project impact.
• Problem Solving: lead problem solving and issue management; ensure adherence to methodology.
• Collaboration: collaborate across the organisation and externally with stakeholders.
• Level of Influence: influence outcomes with senior stakeholders and present analyses.

Skills

Project management

Presentation skills

Financial management

Stakeholder management

People management

Lifecycle delivery

Financial risk knowledge

Job description

2-3 year contract – Dublin based – 3 days a week onsite

€66 per hour (45 hours a week)

Banking sector – must have previous experience

JOB DESCRIPTION

Purpose & Accountability –

Responsible for the management & delivery of complex multi-stream projects in accordance with Project Management Methodology, including managing project scope, schedule, financials, risk, issue, resourcing, and governance.

• Planning & Management: document project scope, schedule and monitor delivery; organise and lead the Governance Fora; prepare and distribute progress reports; manage and monitor the programme’s cost/budget, project cash flow/invoicing; manage and correct deviations from plans; and communicate with relevant stakeholders.
• Workforce Management: ability to analyse the strategy behind transformation project and design future workforce capabilities and teams structures to streamline delivery
• Dependency Management: coordinate early identification & management of external dependencies across the Programme.
• Risk Management: communicate and manage Programme risks and issues.
• Programme Roadmap: maintain a standardised visualisation of the roadmap of inflight deliverables and roadmap of what is coming up for onward portfolio reporting and tracking.
• Monitoring Outcomes: monitor benefits realisation in the form of key outcome metrics.
• Business Case & Financial Governance: coordinate and manage the development and implementation of the business case and financial management to project close out.
• Product Owner and IT Partnership: partner with Product Owner and Solutions Delivery Manager in the overall achievement of programme/project outcomes.
• Continuous Improvement: partner with Product Owner, Solutions Delivery Manager to evolve governance processes and ways of working.
• Decision Making - Identify & makes decisions that have a significant project impact and elevate decisions that cannot be resolved within the project to the agreed governance forums.
• Problem Solving - Identifies, drives and leads problem solving and issue management for the project deliverables. Accountable for project team adherence to project methodology and ensures any deviations are addressed. Influences Project Management methodology and policy improvements.
• Collaboration - Collaborates across the organisation & externally, including external regulatory bodies and stakeholders. Identifies and manages cross functional interdependencies
• Level of Influence - Influences and negotiates project outcomes with senior stakeholders, often across multiple functions. Prepares and presents analysis, insights and recommendation to assist agreed governance forums with decision making.

Experience / Knowledge

• 8+yrs experience in a project management in financial services.
• Experience of delivery of complex projects and Strong presentation skills
• Highly experienced in financial, stakeholder and people Management.
• Experience of working on projects through the full life-cycle (from project initiation to closing)
• Experience or knowledge of Financial Risk an advantage