Project Manager

Overview:

We are looking for a Project Manager to join the team in Bucharest. He/she will be running key projects in the Treasury team, part of the Finance and Accounting domain. The Project Manager will work closely with Solutions Architects, Platform Owner, Product Owner, Program Manager and the Quality Assurance Lead in order to form a project team and deliver solutions to the clients.
This role will report into the Portfolio Management and Funds Transfer Pricing Program Manager.

Key Responsibilities:

• You will be the main contact for project delivery and own overall delivery responsibility to client
• You will be required to deliver Project management throughout life cycle, including project initiation and launch/hand over into production.
• You will ensure ongoing commitment of all stakeholders using effective stakeholder management practices.
• Collaboration with other Information Technology groups in order to achieve delivery. Working with the teams to identify any cross project dependencies and manage these through to completion.
• Act as Scrum Master for 2 -3 scrum teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work.
• Facilitate sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos
• Assist the product owner with keeping the backlog groomed
• Regular formal status reporting.
• Provide risk and issue management and resolution, Manage, track and monitor project RAID log, Facilitating discussion and conflict resolution
• Ensure cross-team coordination
• Reach out to the larger company network for impediment removal
• Maintain relevant metrics that help stakeholders and the team see how they are doing, tracking and communicating team velocity through the use of burn down charts and sprint/release progress updates.
• Financial management: track costs to deliver agreed outcomes and service-level within budget (including financial forecasting).
• Coach and mentor members within the teams
• Ensure that our ways of working are consistent across the teams, giving the team has the opportunity to
• Inspect and adapt by reflecting on their previous iterations progress.
• Liaise between the developers, business analysts, designers, testers, production support and foster better communication between the disciplines.
• Working with the programme manager, product owner and project stakeholders to formulate and publish Project Charters and to ensure the end to end project vision and roadmap are planned
• Provide project status reporting to stakeholders and PMO
• Take responsibility for managing dependencies between the team and third parties or between the team and other scrum teams.
• Actively contribute to the company's Agile and Lean Community, participating proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices.
• Working with the team to define and deliver release dependencies.
• Working with the release management to ensure release dependencies are coordinated
• Working with the production support team to ensure that software support and knowledge is transferred
• Planning, structuring and implementing a project team and plan that can scale, optimise and continually improve project delivery as the project team grows across a multi phase delivery programme

You must have:

• Excellent communication skills, with demonstrable ability to interface and converse with clients at all levels.
• Good project management experience, focusing on management and coordination of requirements, the development process, as well as managing the financial aspect of a project.
• Experience in agile methodology e.g. Agile, Scrum/XP/Kanban/Lean
• Experience of recruiting and building a team
• Technical Programming and Database background with an ability to leverage broad technical and project experience with lateral thinking to be able to apply past experience to current project challenges.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work effectively with multi-location teams.
• Excellent organisational and facilitation skills.
• Excellent level of enthusiasm and expressiveness - necessary to engage with users.
• Passionate about championing the customer.
• Excellent analytical stills and a good attention to detail.
• Great eye for detail and the ability to follow issues through to resolution.

​​The following are advantageous to any candidates

• Experience of working in the Financial Services industry with a focus on developing software
• Mentor and coaching in agile practices, project delivery, production support, analysis, design and implementation practices and techniques for continuous improvement
• A Prince 2 or PMI certification would be seen as advantage.
• Oracle, Java and JRules experience would all be an advantage but not essential.
•  Experience in using JIRA for tracking and reporting