IT Project Manager - Collateral Management Tribe

Division: Group Business Solutions (GBS)

Your Team - GBS Funds Tribe:

Within GBS, you will join the Collateral Management Tribe. You will integrate a dynamic team working in a fast-changing environment.

Role: Epic Delivery Owner

Your role will involve managing a series of Epics (also known as projects). You will be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of the initiatives you manage, which includes:

• Ensuring timely delivery of the Epic scope (divided into Features), within the committed budget and with the expected quality
• Integrating the different individual squad contributions (including cross-Tribe) into a globally consistent plan, in alignment with our Agile Operating Model
• Writing comprehensive Epic memos that enable the Business Sponsor and IT management to make informed decisions
• Providing regular status reports to Tribe Management and various partners.

To be successful, you will have to:

• Develop, manage and maintain Epic plans and forecasts, including resource requirements, costs, risks/issues and their mitigations as well as dependencies with other initiatives
• Manage virtual teams across various divisions and entities, including third party suppliers (near-shore & off-shore)
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with Product Owners and Scrum Masters of the contributing squads, as well as with our customers, providing advice, guidance and options regarding IT investments
• Define the Epic governance (the deliverables, processes, and ceremonies to apply), and supervise the progress, quality and effort of its execution
• Lead the risk, issue and change control processes for assigned Epics, build action plans to mitigate risks, resolve issues and track action items
• Control and monitor the progress of Epics, reporting to the Tribe Management and the Sponsorship Committee
• Manage the Epic in accordance with Euroclear’s internal standards (methodology & tools) and Euroclear’s Agile Operating model

Profile

• Relevant experience in a project management role
• Strong leadership skills to adapt your style according to the situation and the different stakeholders
• Good business and technical understanding
• Interpersonal skills to influence decisions taken with the Epic sponsor/client
• Excellent communication skills (listening, writing and presenting) at all levels, from staff members to senior management
• Ability to learn quickly in a complex environment and to synthesize the situation
• Strong negotiation skills, conflict management and influencing skills at different levels of management
• Effective delegation of tasks and responsibilities while maintaining overall control
• Assertiveness to drive tasks to completion
• Proficiency in English

Assets

• Experience with functional project delivery for cross-platform implementation
• Experience of costs, risks & resource planning & forecasting. Certification in PRINCE 2, PMI (or similar IT frameworks)
• Experience of working with outsourcing partners & offshoring
• Experience in working in an Agile context (Agile practice), Agile certified Practitioner
• Knowledge of settlement or collateral management domain.
• Distributed expertise alongside mainframe specialization

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