On behalf of our client, an international financial service provider located in Luxembourg, we are looking for an external resource with skills and abilities as stated below:

Senior IT Project Manager (m/f/x) financial institution in Luxembourg #377P1732

Your tasks:

• The Senior IT Project Manager is responsible and fully accountable for identifying and managing the resources to successfully carry out large, complex projects including individual systems development projects.
• Responsible and accountable for the delivery of agreed project outputs to the agreed time, cost and quality parameters within the agreed scope.
• Manages and coordinates the activity of specialists, technicians and analysts to ensure that tasks are performed that result in the project deliverable.
• Ensure the project and associated business case are scoped, initiated and approved according to required procedures.
• Ensure the project is planned in a manner that delivers to the required cost and quality and within the agreed scope, including appropriate milestone definition, work breakdown structure, dependencies, and assumptions.
• Ensure the project is resourced appropriately.
• Ensure the project work is executed and implemented according to the plan or any agreed changes to the plan and according to agreed project management standards.
• Ensure that requirements, plans, risks, issues, actions, costs, schedules, benefits, and other related project artefacts are documented, tracked and followed-up on.
• Ensure that the project work is compliant with documented standards, templates, and frameworks, and captured in agreed toolsets.
• Ensure project stakeholder awareness, engagement, and communication.
• Manage and lead project team members.
• Ensure the project closes according to required procedures.
• Demonstrable experience in leading projects to successful conclusions.
• Responsible to successfully manage the implementation of IT projects within the agreed scope, timeline and budget in accordance with our clients project methodology and business objectives.
• Mainly in charge of project planning, resourcing, budgeting, progress reporting, project team management and troubleshooting.
• You will work on IT projects related to the strategic roadmap of our client including the development of new products and services, IT landscape integration in case of Merger & Acquisition, technological IT projects such as Cloud migration.
• You will join a team of 15+ professionals participating in projects and having different roles: Business Analysts, Project Management Office and Project Managers.
• Ensure successful implementation of our clients project(s) within project scope, budget and timeline.
• Analyze and manage project risks and issues in accordance with our client's Executive Management risk appetite.
• Monitor and report the project progress to Executive Management and other portfolio governing body.
• Take full ownership of projects financials, reconcile, analyze gaps and explain discrepancies.
• Lead groups of business and IT stakeholders to agree on functional and or technical solutions to unblock complex situations.
• Chair project governing bodies and any project related forum.
• Manage and support business transitions (technical and planning) and ensure proper governance and controls are in place.

Mandatory skills and experiences:

• 5-7 years of proven track record in a similar role.
• Ideally project management certification, PMI, Prince 2, AgilePM or equivalent.
• Experience within financial services, knowledge of the investment funds industry would be considered as a plus.
• Proficiency in written and spoken English; French/German or/and any other languages will be an asset.
• In General 6+ years of experience in managing complex medium to large sized projects.
• Experience in a management role with P&L accountability.
• Experience in developing and tracking financial business cases.
• Relevant experience working in the capital markets industry.
• Proven ability to effectively assess and mitigate project risks and dependencies.
• Experienced in effectively communicating with and positively influencing project stakeholders and team members.
• Appropriate domain expertise.
• IT background with a good understanding of the Asset Management industry.

Additional Information:

• Start date of assignment: 01.04.2024
• Initial contract duration: 31.12.2024
• Degree of employment: Full-time
• Location: Luxembourg (30% remote work possible)

Please let us know if this position is of interest to you. We will be happy to send you further information and look forward to hearing from you!

Best regards,
Andy

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