Project Manager

Job purpose

The project manager will be responsible for delivering all activities within agreed constraints of time, budget, and quality. This includes acquiring resources and coordinating the efforts of team members and third-party contractors or consultants to deliver projects according to plan. The successful candidate will interact with business users to ascertain their needs and undertake the implementation of selected package solutions or development of systems-based solutions to meet business requirements. He/she will perform all project management responsibilities, prepare, and maintain project plans, monitor progress reports, and act as liaison between IT and user departments.

Principal accountabilities

• Establish project plan and initiate project mobilization by confirming project scope, estimate, resources, roles, and responsibilities.
• Monitor and control execution of project through analyze, design, build, test, and release.
• Provide leadership and decision-making support by establishing project governance.
• Perform project reporting including overall performance of the program and project completion documentation.
• Lead efforts around work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports.
• Lead the design, development, and implementation of business perspective work plans to determine the required tasks and resources (process, functional, etc.) for complex projects spanning multiple business units.
• Provide appropriate performance feedback for project team members.
• Manage the scope change process and issue identification/resolution with all stakeholders.
• Monitor and communicate status to senior leadership. Communicate and incorporate feedback from customers.
• Craft and implement communication plans requiring cultural change within the organization.
• Identify and anticipate risks and issues. Facilitate resolution, mitigation, and appropriate escalation to senior management.
• Define quality standards and ensure compliance.
• Prepare project completion documentation with project performance, lessons learned.
• Ensure access to sensitive information pertaining to the bank, and ongoing and future projects are maintained in strict confidence.