Senior Information Technology Project Manager

Senior IT Project Manager – Banking & Financial Services - €600 per day

Irish Government regulatory Authority with responsibility for Financial Services requires a Senior Project Manager to play a key role in a number of ongoing projects.

Ideally, we are looking for someone with that as strong IT project Management experience within a regulated Financial Services environment.

This is a hybrid role, with the Program Manager required onsitein central Dublin on a 50/50 basis – 2 days one week, 3 days the next, which may occasionally increase at key Program Junctures. While this role initially offered on a 12-month day rate contract basis, the scale of operations is such that there is a strong probability of extension well beyond this timeframe.

Responsibilities of role:

• Leverage personal expertise, experience and judgement to ensure robust, independent, objective and detailed, evidence led assessments are carried out
• Preparing reports on programme schedules, budget, scope and RAID for senior leadership and key stakeholders to support increasing standards in the delivery of programmes and projects across the organisation
• Design and deliver a business case and execution plans to support the delivery of new Financial services schemes
• Work with organisational partners to understand the current ways of working.
• Simultaneously manage multiple projects across Portfolio while driving a culture of transparency, people importance and collaboration.
• Identify, cultivate and manage highly effective relationships with all stakeholder groups across the wider organisation as required.
• Support Continuous Improvement and drive continued reflection on ‘how’ we are doing and drive good practice on organisational change and communications.
• Develop training and communications plans to ensure successful adoption of new ways of working - Providing hands-on change and coaching support as required.

Essential Candidate requirements

• Third level degree in Computer Science, IT or other relevant are relevant to the role
• Professional certification (IPMA, PMP, PgMP, MSP) preferred
• 7+ Years Project/Programme management, a substantial portion of which should have been with IT or financial services organisations
• Have previously set up, ran or held senior position within a PMO focused on a large financial services organisation or government department with related responsibilities
• Extensive experience in leading large, complex and/or strategic Programmes and projects in a structured project environment.
• Experience of assuring/auditing projects/programmes within an enterprise PMO environment
• Experience in leading client–side Programmes with responsibility for managing and delivery of all constituent projects/work-streams of the enhanced assurance review Programme.
• Extensive experience of a project/programme management life-cycle methodology with associated processes and governance.
• Understanding and experience of applying project, programme and change management models, methodologies and techniques – including earned value analysis and management (EVM) techniques.
• Be resident in the Republic of Ireland and have availability to be onsite 2/3 days per week in central Dublin

Please note - All applicants must have immediate availability to work in Ireland and/or the wider EU as our client cannot provide any kind of Visa or Work Permit sponsorship at present.

To Apply:

For more information on this role, please contact Níall on +353 1 8690258 or +353 87 384 5327 or send current CV along with brief cover letter through this site