Project Management Officer FS Consulting

Job description

PMO – Financial Services – Senior Consultant/Manager- Dublin

 

EY is the only major professional services firm with an integrated Financial Services practice across Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa (EMEIA). We connect our Asset Management, Banking and Capital Markets and Insurance clients to 6,500 talented people from 12 countries and 35,000 Financial Services colleagues around the world.

 

In EY FS Ireland, we are expanding our Consulting practice and building our Technology Consulting team as a key component of our NextWave Strategy. NextWave is EY’s global strategy and ambition to deliver long-term value to clients, people and society. It is inspired by the way innovations spread through society. We are actively recruiting high achieving individuals with Project Management expertise on technology-enabled transformation projects/programmes within Financial Services. 

 

The opportunity

Join EY FS Ireland you will be working with the best people on the most complex financial service issues, helping to shape the future of financial services.

By joining the Technology Consulting team, you will work in high-performing teams that deliver exceptional client service, enabling organizations to grow, innovate, protect and optimise their business performance – playing your part in building a better working world.

 

Your key responsibilities

·  Manages the project management office, delivering all PMO activities for the project. Applies PMO practices and processes ensuring that the project is consistently following Project Management Methodology & tooling
·  Process PMO financial transactions and procurements and ensure effective monitoring, controlling and reporting of the PMO budget.
·  Maintains accurate financial reporting on Finance systems for Finance Projects
·  Support effective management of PMO internal and external resources including vendor management and relationship management.
·  Identify and communicate risks and impacts, considering business implications of delays, or of features/requirements that are not understood or not clearly defined
·  Maintains a thorough knowledge of project activities, short and long-term business priorities and objectives through regular communication with other functions.
·  Provide status updates regularly to functional directors and project leadership.
·  Collaborating with the client & the key stakeholders to define, prioritize, and develop projects.
·  Creating Working Group packs highlighting status of each project under Record Keeping stream (including Risk Acceptances, Risk Prioritisations, Change Requests etc).
·  Accurately documenting the project's creation, development, and execution as well as documenting the project's scope, budget, and justification.
·  Track, monitor, advise and maintain status across Budget, Risks, Issues & Benefits.
·  Minute and support all governance meetings, in line with project methodologies. (Status, Board and Steering)
·  Check that appropriate materials are communicated on time within the governance guidelines.
·  Communicates and presents project information to project team, Finance and other stakeholders.

 

People responsibilities

·  Develop people through effectively supervising, coaching, and mentoring more junior members of staff
·  Be responsible for your own self-development, and maintain an educational program to continually develop personal skills
·  Understand and follow workplace policies and procedures
·  Help to build valued relationships with external clients and internal peers

To qualify for the role, you must

·  Have at least 3+ yearin a project management office role
·  Experience communicating at all levels from executive to team level. Strong verbal and written skills
·  Experience producing reports to enterprise standard appropriate for a senior audience
·  Experience in planning, organising, and controlling resources and tasks
·  Experience of Project Management / Application Delivery methodologies
·  Have a strong academic record including a third level degree, preferably in IT or relevant field
·  Have experience operating in a fast paced, multi-vendor environment.
·  Have knowledge and proven experience of working with IT Software Development Lifecycle methodologies (SDLC) including Waterfall & Agile
·  Experience in delivering business value from technology
·  Have attention to detail and time management skills
·  Strong MS Office suite skills - Intermediate to Advanced Excel skills essential
·  Understanding of project management software is advantageous.
·  Ability to exercise independence of judgement and autonomy.
·  Proven interpersonal, data analysis, diplomatic, management and prioritization skills
·  Prove ability to demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication
·  Proven ability to manage multiple activities and build/develop working relationships
·  Proven self-motivation to take initiative and master new tasks quickly
·  Demonstrated ability to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines and approach work methodically with attention to detail

 

Ideally, you’ll also have e xperience in one or more of the following:

·  Experience working in the financial services industry
·  Analysing systems and procedures
·  Stakeholder Management and working collaboratively with Development and Testing teams to deliver high quality solutions that meet client and user business needs
·  Primary degree in Business/Operations Management or equivalent desirable
·  Extensive relevant experience in project management
·  Have experience in seeking the alignment of business and technology, operating across organisational and technology silos to drive common approaches
·  Have ability to build and manage relationships across business and technology stakeholders
·  Have ability to deal with ambiguity and uncertainty
·  Project Management accreditation preferred
·  Experience with PPM/Clarity - an advantage
·  Previous experience managing budgets preferable

 

What we look for

If you have a keen interest in Technology Consulting and you are a team player with excellent communication and presentations skills with an analytical mind with problem-solving skills and experience with various systems and data bases, then the EY FSO Technology Consulting team could be exactly the right place for you.

 

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

 

Additionally, EY is now one of the first global companies to offer our employees access to an externally accredited Technology MBA – a truly unique opportunity to develop yourself and others

 

About EY

As a global leader in assurance, Tax, Strategy & Transactions and Consulting services, we are 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 andcreativefreedom to make things better.Whenever you join, however long you stay, theexceptionalEY 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. 

Apply now.