Acquisition Delivery Office – Senior Project Manager

Job description

Acquisition Delivery Office – Senior Project Manager

Enterprise Technology provides reliable, secure and resilient technology services and solutions to support our 330,000 EY people. As part of Enterprise Technology, you’ll be at the forefront of enabling innovative technologies including emerging collaboration tools and top-tier technology infrastructure.

Our aim is to create a superior customer experience with clear investment in innovation, alongside operational excellence that delivers efficient, quality services and solutions. You will work with technologists and business experts to meet the increasing pace of our business. That means more growth for you, exciting learning opportunities, career choices, and the chance to make a real impact.

The opportunity

As Senior Project Manager, you will be responsible for delivering IT integration projects to schedule, budget and quality. The role requires mastery of the technical knowledge of project management inter-related process stages i.e. initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control and close, and the supporting processes e.g. scope, cost, time, issue, risk, resource, communication, stakeholder management. Senior project manager must have excellent stakeholder relationship management skills to successfully lead and manage the project team and project stakeholders, and have expertise recognized and requested by customers.

Your key responsibilities

Acquisition project are highly confidential and high visibility.  You will be responsible to coordinate all IT integration activities as documented in the Due Diligence report.  You will be responsible to coordinate among various groups to ensure that the IT integration of the newly acquired entity is done in a timely and cost-effective way

Skills and attributes for success

·  Successfully execute the project to agreed schedule, budget and scope
·  Perform the relevant project management processes - i.e. initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control and close, and the supporting processes e.g. scope, cost, time, issue, risk, resource, communication, stakeholder management
·  Plan the project based on a defined need – results in detailed scope/budget/schedule baseline
·  Monitor and control the work to ensure that the project remains on track and in control
·  Plan for and manage change
·  Reports on variances to the approved project baseline
·  Close the project to formalize acceptance of the project result and release project resources
·  Interface and communicate with project team, management and stakeholders
·  Manage project work and resources to enable successful and timely completion of the project
·  Performs gate reviews and quality assurance reviews with all aspects of IT organization and business sponsors
·  Delivery of projects aligned to overall business and technology strategies and architectures
·  Work within defined governance processes
·  Manage external contracts and suppliers where required
·  Support development of business cases with the customer team including leading on the solutions estimate
·  Lead the development of the project charter and scope, and ensure delivery of the solution to schedule, budget and scope
·  Develop objectives, phasing and content of the project to deliver on the business case benefits, budget and timescales
·  Manage to the objectives and plan by thorough risk, issue and change management across both business and IT parts of the project
·  Ensures that quality project standards are met as prescribed by IT Services through the effective implementation or use of approved processes, methodologies and deliverables

To qualify for the role, you must have:

·  Experience of managing IT projects with personal accountability for delivering to time and cost for large, complex projects typically from $100,000 up to $5m in value and 6 to 18 months in duration
·  Mastery of project management methodology, tools and templates (includes project planning, schedule development, scope management and cost management)
·  Track record of customer focus, based on openness, trust, and delivering on promises
·  Not mandatory but desirable - experience of delivery that includes the use of supplier and off-shore resources
·  Not mandatory but desirable - experienced in managing to contract; ensuring clients and suppliers alike perform in accordance with original agreement
·  Not mandatory but desirable - experience across packaged and bespoke systems and infrastructure, ideally on an international basis
·  Not mandatory but desirable - management skills to manage one or more large, complex projects simultaneously
·  IT background with experience across the systems development life cycle with experience in all project phases – plan, initiate, elaborate, design, build, test, implement.
·  Knowledge and use of industry-standard project methods, tools and techniques e.g. RAIDS, budget, communication
·  Strong team working skills across matrixed client, supplier and geographically dispersed virtual teams
·  Strong communication and interpersonal skills (includes negotiation)
·  Excellent written and verbal communication skills – must be able to communicate fluently in English both verbally and in writing
·  Leader in the use of IT methodologies, processes and standards for project management
·  Strong knowledge of waterfall and Agile project management methodology
·  Proficient with project management tools such as Teams, DevOps and MS-Project

Ideally, you’ll also have

·  Education:
·  A degree in Computer Science or a related discipline; or equivalent work experience
·  Experience:
·  5+ years in a corporate IT environment
·  3+ years’ experience in project management
·  Other relevant experience in a related technical field (application development, deployment/implementation and infrastructure)
·  Work experience in a global professional services industry preferred
·  Certification Requirements:
·  Project management certification is preferred (PMI/CAPM or PMP, PRINCE2)
·  Familiarity with ITIL v2 or 3 would be advantageous
·  National and international travel may be required, so a valid passport

What we look for:

·  Strong team building and collaboration capabilities
·  Independence and ability to work unsupervised
·  Serious and dedicated individual
·  Proactively identify risks and issues on projects - leading team to develop risk management and issues management plans
·  Identifies potential points of contention for missed deliverables; creates and implements strategy to mitigate shortfalls in timeline and budget
·  Someone who can anticipates problems before they occur; defines the problem or risk; identifies possible causes; works with team to identify solutions; selects and implements most appropriate solution
·  Ability to develop and manage plans to address project strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats
·  Ability to balance both the 'science' of how to perform project management and the 'art' of project management, which is learned through experience and skill training/application
·  Analytical skills and problem-solving skills needed to manage multiple factors on a project simultaneously
·  Someone who can demonstrate business analytics to manage and meet sponsor and customer needs

What working at EY offers

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

·  Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
·  Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
·  The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.

About EY

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we’re using the finance products, expertise and systems we’ve developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime. And with a commitment to hiring and developing the most passionate people, we’ll make our ambition to be the best employer by 2021 a reality.

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

Join us in building a better working world.

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