Project Manager

Description

We are developing and supporting a set of existing financial software applications and are in need of a Senior Project Manager to drive definition and execution of the program and attendant projects which need to deliver on a repeating basis 3 times per year. The candidate will manage T1.com (Thomson One) Investment Banking portion. Thy will be involved in the repeated software releases and what makes up the solution. Candidate will need to program manage as well as project manage. 1. Ensure the successful delivery of multiple technical initiatives to build functionality and features provided to Investment Bankers via a web application. Manage projects from current state (some already underway) through deployment. 2. Manage all project activities and deliverables to agreed quality and time specifications.3. Manage stakeholders and communicate project status, milestones and dependencies to a large audience of stakeholders.4. Coordinate project activities across multiple development, product management, user experience and QA, teams in a complex matrixed organization. Day to Day Responsibilities Define, document and execute the project, actively participating in all relevant phases of the project. Actively engage with several global development and product groups to create, ensure synchronization and awareness of all plans. Create project plans and schedules and track progress against plans. Establish project milestones that reflect realization of agreed business benefits within timeframe and budget. Identify and track milestones, deliverables, risks, issues, changes and dependencies within the schedule. Responsible for project risk management. Identify, assess, manage and minimize project risks to successful project completion. Responsible for project change control. Ensure the appropriate solution or budget is presented so that projected business benefits are realised. Ensure revisions to the project are agreed from stakeholders and full impact of changes is understood by stakeholders. Work with stakeholder(s) to ensure successful completion of all project deliverables. Ensure all groups are aware of project scope, their responsibility for delivering projects and milestones. Ensure the right resources are available at the right time with the right skills. Monitor and report status from each deliverable group to all relevant parties. Highlight divergence from scope and adjust where necessary. Gain commitments to ensure corrective actions are taken if costs, timescales or resources deviate from agreed tolerances. Participate in project estimations when requested to provide costs, timescales and resource requirements for the successful completion of each project to be estimated. Ensure compliance with Thomson Reuters Project Process. Maintain project library including all key project documentation. Contribute to the ongoing development of project process, tools and techniques such that they develop in line with company organisational, technical and commercial requirements. Perform other assignments as requested by manager. Education Bachelor's degree pref in Engineering Required skills 8+ years in a similar position/environment Must be capable of managing multiple project streams simultaneously in a dynamic environment. Excellent leadership and team building skills. Knowledge of investment banking. Proven implementation skills. Very strong interpersonal skills particularly motivational, negotiation, listening, judgement, analytic ability, and conflict management skills. Excellent organization, verbal and written communication skills to explain project goals and inspire support. Strong presentation skills. Extensive use of Microsoft office and project planning tools. Experience with Iterative and/or Agile process but flexible as TR does not use just one process. Hands on tech project management experience with SDLC and more mature software projects with repeated releases. Dev managers (those with a Dev background) are discouraged. Should be more people focused then technical. Desired skills PMP Certification Sharepoint knowledge Experience with building project wikis (new project themes)