Project Manager at Bravura Solutions

Job description

Main activities

• Establishing and managing effective project operations to deliver quality outcomes. These will be multi workstream projects likely to involve development, data migration, infrastructure and implementation as examples
• Leading distributed team(s) of project employees operating on complex IT projects, delivering application enhancements, implementations and resolving defects.
• Controlling the definition of project requirements and high level solutions. Responsible for managing these into the development team and for user acceptance on delivery.
• Maintenance of project plans and timely management of actual effort and remaining work.
• Maintenance of JIRA to ensure accurate and up to date status of project activities.
• Timely progress reporting (verbal and written) to both clients and internal management.
• Defining, sourcing and managing necessary project resources. Controlling project schedules to ensure that necessary modules and programs are completed according to the project plan.
• Preparing project budgets, attaining necessary approvals in a timely manner and monitoring and tracking project financials and the realisation of defined project benefits.
• Effectively controlling and managing the issues, risks, dependencies and changes in scope associated with large, complex IT projects.
• Establishing, managing and reporting on project budget(s), analysing budget variances and recommending appropriate action. Exceeding stakeholder expectations through the application of stakeholder management disciplines.
• Developing and managing vendor contracts/agreements associated with projects under management

To Be Successful In This Role Candidates Will Required

• Strong understanding and application of Project Management competencies including scope, time, costs, quality, HR, communications, risk, procurement, and integration. Effective leadership, relationship, coordination, motivational, negotiation and dispute resolution skills.
• Strong understanding of business requirements and technical limitations as determined by the application architecture.
• 6- 8 years professional services experience required
• Ability to apply analytical skill and conceptual thinking to operations and system planning across a range of technologies.
• Strong understanding and application of change management competencies.
• Financial literacy to forecast and manage project budgets.
• Ability to manage the competing demands of multiple, simultaneous projects.
• Strong skills with Microsoft Office tools particularly Project, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Previous experience in a large consulting firm focused on system implementation
• Progressive experience in Information Technology
• Solid experience of successful project delivery
• Degree level qualifications in Computer Science, Numerate Science, Business or an associated discipline
• Formal project management qualifications desirable