Project Manager
- CGI
- 7 - 9 years
- Chennai
- 4 months ago
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Job Description
Role & responsibilities
Direct Responsibilities
The main mission of the PM will be to:
- Lead the project throughout all project phases, from initial preparation to migration completion and post-go-LIVE stabilization
- Manage project scope, budget and planning, reporting on progress, in full compliance with the organizations project management lifecycle and governance
- Lead all Functional and Development teams contributing to the project, including transversal enabling teams
- Coordinate and keep informed sponsors and users representatives, while managing their expectations
- Organize and chair meetings and committees with various stakeholders and contributors, IT, users, management, as needed during the execution of the project
- Identify and manage project risks, dependencies with other projects, escalations to management and sponsors whenever necessary, and without any delay
- Ensure project deliverables are properly documented, both from project perspective and IT asset perspective
- Ensure that all project deliverables implemented respect WMIS standards and are fully aligned and mutualized between sites and regions. Specific solution should only be considered to address regulatory, tax or accounting specific requirements.
Contributing Responsibilities
The PM will be the privileged contact for sponsors and user representatives during the whole execution of the project, and will be responsible for all project tasks such as:
- Project budget and planning definition breaking down the project into smaller and manageable transitions stages
- Ensure a good relationship with business sponsors and stakeholders across the organization
- Business requirements consolidation and formal validation
- Prepare migration and testing strategy consolidation and formal validation
- Lead and coordinate the work of PMO, helping on project management tasks
- Centralize project information and status from all contributing teams and transversal teams
- Organize and run dedicated meetings or committees, as required
- Identify and report on project risks, attention points and issues to follow-up
- Coordinate with all teams, from same division or other divisions, working on the same project within Scope of project(s) : Core Banking Platform, for Wealth Management (TEMENOS TRANSACT)
- Transversal topics involving other domains and interfaced applications
Technical & Behavioral Competencies
Responsibilities and skills required:
- At least 7 years of experience in Banking Industry, as a hands-on Project Manager
- Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal third-parties to prepare and successfully execute the project and deliver project management artifacts as needed : project scope definition, committees documents and minutes, project card, project planning and efforts, project progress reports and presentations, documents related to various project lifecycle phases, sign-offs, migration, etc
- Strong project management skills required (e.g. PMP certification), with relevant experience in driving successfully big projects with budgets of multiple millions of dollars
- Strong management on NFR activities for a given project
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, managers, subject matter experts and technical teams.
- Strong leadership skills, able to motivate big teams and overcome collective challenges during the project
- Can-do attitude, able to work under stress and tight deadlines.
WMIS (Wealth Management Information Systems organization):
- WM IT Hub (Singapore and Chennai, Switzerland, Lisbon, Paris)
- Engineering, Infrastructure and Production teams
- Strategy & Architecture
- IT Security
- Global Project Management Office (PMO)
- Control & Finance
Out of WMIS:
- Project Transformation Office (TMO)
- Business Sponsors & Transversal teams, and in particular: COO and Operations teams in Head Office and in respective sites, and all other Business representatives who may be connected to Core Banking activities, and assigned area of expertise.
Preferred candidate profile
Job Classification
Industry: IT Services & ConsultingFunctional Area / Department: BFSI, Investments & TradingRole Category: Investment Banking, Private Equity & VCRole: Investment Banking, Private Equity & VC - OtherEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: CGILocation(s): Chennai
Keyskills: Technical Project Management PMP Project Management Banking Sector PMI Bfsi IT Project Management
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