Project Manager
Luxoft is a global leader in high-end software development.
Luxoft is looking for talents with a passion for technology & ready to create original solutions. Once on board, you are invited to expand your knowledge & skills, offering you a continuous learning experience helping you stretch your potential.
So if you’re enthusiastic by the idea of accessing cutting edge technology & innovation to make an impact, why don't you join us?
Project Manager
Miejsce pracy: Wroclaw
Nr Ref.: VR-26034
Responsibilites
The Project Management activities include scope confirmation, definition of implementation approach, resource planning, budget and actuals tracking, milestone tracking and stakeholder and business client management.
1) Maintenance of RAID (Risks, Issues, Assumptions, Dependencies) and Action Logs
- Identification and management of risks and issues
- Definition of response strategies and mitigation actions
2) Status Reporting
- Coordinate IT status reporting (Working Group level) for all involved stakeholders
- Provide timely status input to the Program Manager ahead of Steer Co. (STC) meetings and when required to present specific project points of interest to STC members.
- Influence and align status reporting activities across multiple groups including IT, Change and Line.
3) Financials & Budgets
- Manage budget/forecast/actuals across the work streams using standard portfolio and project management tools
- Ensure consistent reporting of budgets/actuals/forecasts
- Maintain traceability & change control around budgets
4) Quality Management
- Adherence of CS solution delivery policies and quality guidelines within standard solution delivery framework
Audit Readiness: Front-run readiness in anticipation of IT audits
Key Deliverables:
- Ensure timely and fit for purpose delivery of agreed project deliveries
- Tracking of project effort, milestone tracking, tracking of risks, issues and dependencies
- Stakeholder management: Build and maintain trust-based and professional relationships with senior IT leadership team and business stakeholders, act as sparring partner for IT management
- Financials tracking (budget and actuals)
- Tracking of change requests, project financials, milestones and achievements
Additional duties and responsibilities:
- Ability to adapt to changing priorities and assume additional responsibilities as required
Navigate across many different IT and business groups and to align their priorities and requirements
Requirements
- 4+ years of extensive experience in Software Development project management
- Detailed understanding of project lifecycles
- Financial industry background and proficiency
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
- Experience of communicating directly with and influencing senior stakeholders
- Strong leadership and analytical skills
- Experience with large global projects spanning many functional areas and systems
- Experience in managing virtual project teams across multiple time zones
- Ability to work independently and within a team
- Proven track record of managing large IT projects - budget, scope, quality & risks with globally distributed teams
- A good understanding of Risk & Finance concepts within an Investment Banking arena, e.g. data and processes that form Financial Accounting & Regulatory Capital Reports.
- University degree education ideally with focus on computer science or project management
- Able to operate in politically challenging situations
- Knowledge of project management tools & systems
- Proficient with MS Office; excellent MS Project skills required.
- High degree of flexibility and "can do" attitude. Ability to work with very limited level of instruction and supervision.
- Banking or Financial Sector Industry expertise
- The candidate must understand the front-to-back business process and must be able to solution across multiple business domains. Experience with the implementation of projects across a large and diverse stakeholder base located in multiple geographies.
- Project Management certification is a plus (PMI, PRINCE, etc)
- It is preferable that the candidate possesses CFO business knowledge and / or prior experience managing similar projects relating to P&L, Price Testing, Fair Value Measurement, Disclosures, GL, Regulatory Reporting, Accounting, etc. Prior knowledge within Credit and / or Market Risk a plus.
We offer
Project Manager for a Regulatory Change Program - Leverage Ratio (LR) Program.
The purpose of the LR Program is to bring together the multiple 'in flight' / planned Leverage Ratio initiatives (both 'stressed' and 'non stressed') across the group into a single portfolio of work, with the aim of:
- Creating a regulator agnostic strategic solution to produce daily reporting across all regulators for both spot and stressed Leverage Ratio calculations
- Enhancing control and monitoring across Leverage Ratio initiatives which are unable to be absorbed into the strategic solution
- Identifying the synergies / overlaps between the multiple initiatives to ensure no duplication and an efficient strategic solution
- Working with the business to ensure MIS requirements are fully captured and delivered upon
- Utilising and Shaping Bank's Risk & Finance IT (RFIT) strategic architecture (i.e. REF, RDF, etc.) to deliver a sustainable, robust and performant LR solution.