Vice President, Project Manager, MarkitSERV recruitment
The successful candidate will be responsible for:
Programme Management Governance
- Plan the Roadmap items for four rolling quarters liaising with Product, Technology and Operations stakeholders on priority, requirements, estimates and resourcing requirements.
- In conjunction with the Delivery Manager, plan a detailed programme of work that delivers the roadmap items using effectively and appropriately scoped projects, using corporate process and tooling standards.
Planning
- Plan each project within the programme of work ensuring that the corporate SDLC standards are adhered to and deviations from the standards are documented, agreed and communicated to the relevant stakeholders.
- Manage resource requirements, allocations and assignment to the stream and projects, keeping accurate records and forecasts through PMO mechanisms.
Dependency Management
- Ensure that Platform release, cross Delivery Stream and resource dependencies are managed communicated to all relevant stakeholders.
- For all dependencies, appropriate contingency planning needs to be planned in advance and approved by relevant stakeholders. Where this is not possible, the RAID log is to be employed.
Project Control
- Manage programme and project requirements ensuring that execution and resource allocations align with roadmap priorities.
- Manage the traceability of project requirements to roadmap items and testing coverage.
- Actively manage and communicate programme and project risks, issues and change requests through RAID and change request logs.
- Report and communicate programme and project status employing PMO standards.
PMO Project Organisation
- Meetings – ensure that logistics for PSC, programme and project specific meetings are adequately catered for and all relevant stakeholders invited and represented. Minutes and actions are to be taken and distributed where appropriate.
- Project infrastructure for documentation, planning, reporting, RAID logs and communication is to be managed by the Project Manager according to company standards.
Process Improvements – propose and champion process improvements based on outputs of post project reviews and day to day experiences.
The ideal candidate will have the following:
- Proven experience as a programme / project manager delivering projects in OTC Derivatives environments – vendor, Investment Bank or Financial Markets.
- Experience managing delivery of projects into complex platform environments where many dependencies need careful management.
- Prior involvement in major, multi geography programmes of change
- Excellent Microsoft Office – XLS, Powerpoint, Visio, MS Project experience and other PPM tooling (Clarity, Planview, HP PPM, Changepoint).
- ITIL Trained or knowledgeable
- Awareness of financial markets, OTC Derivatives and industry regulation desirable but not essential.
- Competence in liaising with Product, Delivery, Project Managers and Operations stake holders.
- Able to facilitate meeting where required and ensure decisions/actions are captured, communicated and tracked
- Take ownership of the programme of work, ensuring process, infrastructure and communication mechanisms are maintained.
- Working with the Delivery Manager, lead planning, controlling, execution and dependency efforts across projects and programmes.
- Able to work independently and as part of a team
- Pro-actively enhance and improve existing / new processes
- Support drive for efficiency/effectiveness
- Proactively identify, mitigate and communicate / escalate programme and project specific risks and issues.
- Able to progress multiple tasks at the same time
- Highly structured and organised, but able to be pragmatic and implement point solutions to aid delivery.
- Must be an excellent communicator both written and verbally. Will be dealing with a variety of different people at all levels (both internal and external)
- Provide output that provides clear conclusions tailored to the audience.
- To a high quality within set deadlines
- Strong influencing and negotiation skills
- Able to build consensus/alignment on objectives
- Obtain information from contributors to required deadlines and quality
July 17, 2012
• Tags: Information Services careers in the USA, MarkitSERV recruitment, Project Manager, Vice President • Posted in: Financial