IT Project Manager

I am working closely with a Global Trading firm in West London that are�looking to add an experienced IT Project Manager to their technology function reporting directly into the Global Head of Projects.

The role will work enterprise wide with the ideal candidate having experience in project managing across Infrastructure/Cyber Security/Software�and IT

Principle accountabilities:

• Facilitating delivery of cross functional projects and digital transformation programme
• Act as the eyes and ears of technology leadership across the organisation; build relationships and attend meetings across different functions and strategic projects to ensure knowledge of key issues/flags/context and share where appropriate with the technology leadership team
• Capturing End2End Business Operating Models, Target Operating Models, performing Gap Analysis.
• Process mapping (Visio) and building presentations to present to senior stakeholders.
• Business Analysis skills, capturing and documenting requirements, functional specifications, solutions design.
• Support in building PMO framework, documentation, templates.
• Raise and report risks (delivery date, resource availability, dependencies) and inconsistencies in change projects at the company level (RAIDs)
• Write detailed status reports shared with the team and publish them to the company
• Communicate a high-level view of the consolidated project statuses and communicate delivery dates and key milestones
• Track status and progress of teams among the different projects, proactively manage project budgets
• Track the technology team OKRs and share the summary report with the company
• Drive all regular project meetings, with forward planning to pre-empt actions prior to meetings, ownership of agendas, advanced meeting briefings & delegation of follow up actions.
• Develop and manage end-to-end project plans and ensure on-time delivery
• Proactively identify inefficiencies that are holding the team back, and drive better, more efficient workflows
• Interface with technology and business owners for defining requirements and scope
• Set the appropriate project management framework and agile ways of working
• Ensure the creation of a clear RACI for all stakeholders and project contributors
• Ensure the project scope is documented and approved
• Identify risks and proactively plan mitigation, manage issues as they arise, escalating solution options to relevant stakeholders when necessary
• Ensure an effective transition plan to facilitate user adoption of the project on delivery
• Lead the post-implementation measurement of KPI's and pre-agreed success criteria; post-implementation review and capture and share key learnings
• Perform all other duties and tasks as assigned

Personal Attributes & Experience:

• Demonstrate prior experience in project management in software development/tech
• Prior experience leading and interacting with cross-functional teams
• Strong verbal and written communication as well as interpersonal skills
• Proven track record leading large scale projects end-to-end with multiple partners that require robust change management and communication
• Consistent ability to run multiple initiatives combined with the ability to execute at tactical project level tasks
• Experience operating autonomously across multiple teams, demonstrated critical thinking, and thought leadership
• Experienced of successfully delivering board level sponsored projects.
• Experience of both Agile and traditional Prince2 project management principles and practices, and the ability to blend them according to the needs of the project