Trade Finance Project Manager sought by leading investment bank based in the city of London.
**Inside IR35 - 3 days a week on site** - Trade finance systems knowledge is essential.
Profile Summary
To provide project management on key IT investment projects and workstreams, specifically to oversee the IT migration to a new Trade Finance application and updates to supporting business processes.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Overall programme/project management of all assigned IT programmes/projects including without limitation preparation of the project initiation document (PID), project plan (Gantt chart), project organisation chart, project budget application, quality management and system release documentation
- Responsible for delivering strategic objectives across business lines via projects and programmes
- Ensure projects are delivered against the project plan and all milestones are met
- Managing changes and ensuring appropriate documentation is available (PID, BRD, FRDs etc)
- Deployment and release coordination
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders in front, middle and back office.
- Set up Steering Committees and cross functional governance structures
- Monthly preparation and reporting to Project Steering Committee, where applicable
- Preparation of IT Strategy Committee or C-Suite level documentation where required for the project
- Work with sponsors to build out business cases/ROI allowing for projects to be prioritised and launched with Head office in the correct order.
- Co-work with the IT planning team and HO liaison teams to get the budget approved
- Ensure projects are tracked against budget and delivered within the approved budget
- Vendor management including negotiating statement of works, contracts and service level agreements
- Identification and management of cross project risk, issues, dependencies and assumptions ensuring the correct actions are taken when required
- Proactively resolve risks and issues escalating when required
- Managing internal and external resources in a matrix organisation project structure
- Ensure all project deliverables created adhere to the required quality/risk management policies
- Weekly project status reporting to the planning team and IT leadership team (plus other stakeholders where applicable)
Qualifications, Skills and Experience
Specific
- Detailed knowledge and experience of Trade Finance system projects (Required)
- Knowledge and experience of end-to-end Trade Finance business processes (Desirable)
- Knowledge and experience of Eximbills (Desirable)
General
- Relevant Project management qualification (APM, PMP etc)
- Good understanding of project management methodologies including agile (Scrum and Kanban ceremonies)
- Strong stakeholder management skills
- Excellent attention to detail
- In depth knowledge of all areas of IT
- Understanding of financial market products
- Customer focused with a service delivery mentality
- Excellent organisational and time management skills
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present complex information clearly and effectively to diverse audiences
- Proven track record of driving change
- Strong decision making skills
- Proven ability to work in high pressured environments.
- Excellent problem solving skills
- Coach, mentor and develop junior members of the IT Project Management team
Please apply within for further details or call on 07393149627
Alex Reeder
Harvey Nash Finance & Banking
