Trade Finance Project Manager - Banking/Exembills

Trade Finance Project Manager sought by leading investment bank based in the city of London.

**Inside IR35 - 3 days a week on site** - Trade finance systems knowledge is essential.

Profile Summary

To provide project management on key IT investment projects and workstreams, specifically to oversee the IT migration to a new Trade Finance application and updates to supporting business processes.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Overall programme/project management of all assigned IT programmes/projects including without limitation preparation of the project initiation document (PID), project plan (Gantt chart), project organisation chart, project budget application, quality management and system release documentation
• Responsible for delivering strategic objectives across business lines via projects and programmes
• Ensure projects are delivered against the project plan and all milestones are met
• Managing changes and ensuring appropriate documentation is available (PID, BRD, FRDs etc)
• Deployment and release coordination
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders in front, middle and back office.
• Set up Steering Committees and cross functional governance structures
• Monthly preparation and reporting to Project Steering Committee, where applicable
• Preparation of IT Strategy Committee or C-Suite level documentation where required for the project
• Work with sponsors to build out business cases/ROI allowing for projects to be prioritised and launched with Head office in the correct order.
• Co-work with the IT planning team and HO liaison teams to get the budget approved
• Ensure projects are tracked against budget and delivered within the approved budget
• Vendor management including negotiating statement of works, contracts and service level agreements
• Identification and management of cross project risk, issues, dependencies and assumptions ensuring the correct actions are taken when required
• Proactively resolve risks and issues escalating when required
• Managing internal and external resources in a matrix organisation project structure
• Ensure all project deliverables created adhere to the required quality/risk management policies
• Weekly project status reporting to the planning team and IT leadership team (plus other stakeholders where applicable)

Qualifications, Skills and Experience

Specific

• Detailed knowledge and experience of Trade Finance system projects (Required)
• Knowledge and experience of end-to-end Trade Finance business processes (Desirable)
• Knowledge and experience of Eximbills (Desirable)

General

• Relevant Project management qualification (APM, PMP etc)
• Good understanding of project management methodologies including agile (Scrum and Kanban ceremonies)
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• In depth knowledge of all areas of IT
• Understanding of financial market products
• Customer focused with a service delivery mentality
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present complex information clearly and effectively to diverse audiences
• Proven track record of driving change
• Strong decision making skills
• Proven ability to work in high pressured environments.
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Coach, mentor and develop junior members of the IT Project Management team

Please apply within for further details or call on

Alex Reeder
Harvey Nash Finance & Banking