Project Manager - Bank

Project Manager

Knowledge & Experience:

- Over all 10+ years of experience in agile working methodologies with 4+ years (recent) in Banking Domain. Regional experience useful but not Mandatory.

- Experience in the end-to-end delivery of projects including leading IT Transformation related initiatives within the Banking industry

- Responsible for facilitating daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings.

- Possesses conflict resolution, does conversation by focusing on scrum values of openness, honesty and respect.

- Needs to forecast the numbers of deliverables possible in an iteration, which is based on evidence and reliable source.

- Needs to be expert in estimation and planning. He knows how to create useful, reliable and practical plans for software development projects.

- Should be a good coach in Agile practices. S/he can coach individuals and interactions over processes and tools.

- Help team or individual to clarify goals and actions to achieve them.

- Ability to shield his team from outside distractions and interferences.

- Ability to ensure the correct use of scrum process.

- Ability to track and remove impediments.

- Coaches multiple scrum masters

- Ability to work on supporting the solution of delivery teams and organization impediments

- Increases visibility of OKRs and KPIs across interdependent teams

- Ability to support quarterly planning across different teams

- Strong coordination skills and relationship management is must. Projects will involve enterprise wide implementation where coordination with bank wide business groups will be required.

- Prior experience of both functional and technical understandings of banking domain is must.

- Experience in leading Large initiatives within Bank

- Strong team player who can lead the activities to the logical closure.

- Proven track record of delivering projects as per agreed upon project parameters.

- Proven ability to manage stakeholders including business heads, functional heads and other senior managers

- Managing multi-location, multi-Vendor, distributed Teams including task allocation, monitoring, effective communication

- Significant experience in managing external vendors

- Significant experience in Banking and Financial Services exposure with good understanding of key banking systems.

- Familiarity with project performance monitoring principles and metrics.

- Good understanding of internationally accepted Project Management Principles, Methodologies and Practices

Skills:

- Functional and technical understanding of Banking Domain

- Strong Project Planning Skills

- Functional/Technical Knowledge

- Effective communication skills, both verbal and written

- Change Management

- Time and Quality Management

- Vendor management

- Analytical ability and conceptual thinking

- Team player and collaborative

- Ability to establish strong working relationships at appropriate levels of authority

- Ability to work under pressure and willingness to go the extra mile to meet the project timelines/goals

- Good handle on Project Planning tools such as MS Project. Visio, PowerPoint, Excel and Word