Morgan McKinley is recruiting for a Project Manager on behalf of a leading investment bank based in Belfast on an initial 5-month contract.
Rate: £428/day
Responsibilities:
- Coordinates activities of the project team alongside Change Lead and implement schedules to meet completion deadlines.
- Monitor and manage program risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies whilst escalating to senior management as required.
- Oversee project plans and tracking of progress and changes alongside Change Lead
- Manage project scope by assessing requirements changes, determining and conveying impact on time and risk.
- Review project escalations and ensure appropriate management oversight of escalation.
- Uses best practice PMO methodology to create a project plan to fit the stakeholders/customers' needs and deliver within budget on desired outcomes.
- Works closely with the internal teams to define a project scope and objectives for project members.
- Prepares, maintains, and submits clear and concise activity/progress reports and time recording/management reports.
- Assesses project risk potentials and discover potential problems before they occur.
- Verifies project team adherence to control implementations as well as standards and process changes.
- Apply a proactive approach in routinely tracking the project participant progress against project goals.
- Ownership of management reports on a given project.
- Understanding of the functional aspects of projects, and documenting when required, based on Business Requirements, including engagement with technical leads on functional solutions.
- Assemble/manage detailed documentation, to be used to discuss technology implementation details with the Business users.
- Applies good understanding of concepts and procedures within own project leadership area to resolve issues.
Knowledge/Experience:
- Previous project management experience - preferably financial services environment
- PMP certification strongly preferred, Six Sigma a plus.
- Ability to develop project plans, manage individual deadlines and goals.
- Knowledge of project metrics, including gathering, reporting, trend analysis, creation, and metrics.
- Highly proficient of MS Office applications, MS Project, Jira and confluence preferable or other similar project tools.
- Self-starting team player with the ability to multitask and prioritize.
- Ability to analyse a process and recommend ways to improve quality, controls, and efficiency.
- Strong communication skills and time management, ability to navigate a complex environment, work with a large group of stakeholders and participate in decision making.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's/University degree or relevant experience
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