EY - Project Manager - Business Management Office

JOB SUMMARY :

- This role is responsible for delivering Business Management Office projects to schedule, budget and quality.

- The role requires knowledge of the 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.

- Awareness of and compliance with portfolio management, project management methods and tools and quality assurance is also required. The role must have adequate stakeholder relationship management skills to successfully lead and manage the project team and project stakeholders. This role will support the business management off by providing weekly status reports, budget reports and participating portfolio, program and project management activities.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE JOB :

- Successfully execute a 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

- 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

- Provide support to the Operations teams to ensure the transition objectives are met; Operations Manual, training, acceptance into production.

- Ensures that quality project standards are met as prescribed by IT Services through the effective implementation or use of approved processes, methodologies and deliverables

ANALYTICAL/DECISION MAKING RESPONSIBILITIES :

- Leads the project team to ensure timely deliverables

- Monitors and manages project baseline to ensure activities are occurring as planned - scope, budget and schedule manages variances

- 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

- 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

- 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

- Demonstrate business analytics to manage and meet sponsor and customer needs