Manager - Project Assurance - Captive Insurance Firm

Manager - Project Assurance

We have this role with one of our Captive Insurance Client in Mumbai.

The Project Assurance team will be responsible for providing an independent assessment of strategic projects, programs and portfolios across the Group, to assure risks are being managed effectively and a successful delivery outcome of project, program, and portfolios is achieved

Partner with professional auditors to undertake Independent Assurance Reviews of highly complex projects and programs

The reviews will follow the Project Assurance Framework, a structured approach that aims to assess the overall health of projects against best practice

The role requires the individual to have considerable experience of delivering complex programs in order to gain the credibility and respect of the project teams going through the assessment

Core Competencies Required :

Expert knowledge of :

- Program Management, Portfolio prioritization, Portfolio / Programme / Project status reporting processes, Establishing, monitoring and controlling budgets, Consolidation, and reporting of financial status, including variance analysis, Designing and implementing project governance controls and reporting

- Project Delivery management processes and techniques, including Project methodology (specifically - waterfall, agile), Project planning, Potential sources of risk and their impact on project success, Project constraints, Sources of project complexity

- Should have managed 10+ projects successfully, ideally within a program or portfolio environment

- Programme Audit and, or Assurance experience

- Experience of strategy development and/or design of programs or portfolios to deliver strategy

- Proven track record of working on diverse and ambiguous programs

- Expert stakeholder management skills including ability to challenge at all levels

- Advanced communication (verbal, written, listening) skills (e.g. can present complex data in an easily understood format - competent and flexible use of visibility to drive stakeholder behaviors)

- Advanced planning and organization skills

- Advanced budget control skills

Advanced ability to detect and resolve problems

Advanced quality management skills

Advanced commercial awareness and third party management capability, with demonstrated ability to manage resources across multiple suppliers (e.g. internal, other third parties and contract/consultant)

Advanced people management skills

Qualifications:

The ideal candidate would possess the following qualifications

Prince2 / PMP or equivalent

MSP or equivalent

AgilePM or equivalent

CAPM or equivalent