The opportunity

Senior Project manager is responsible for delivering IT projects to schedule, budget and quality. The role requires mastery of the technical knowledge of 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. Proficiency in related processes such as portfolio management, program management, methods and tools and quality assurance is also required. Senior Project manager must have excellent stakeholder relationship management skills to successfully lead and manage the project team and project stakeholders, and have expertise recognized and requested by customers.

Your key responsibilities

• Lead the development of the project charter and scope, and ensure delivery of the solution to 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
• Monitor and control the work to ensure that the project remains on track and in control
• Manage to the objectives and plan by thorough risk, issue and change management across both business and IT parts of the project
• 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
• Manage external contracts and suppliers where required
• Support development of business cases with the customer team including leading on the solutions estimate
• Develop objectives, phasing and content of the project to deliver on the business case benefits, budget and timescales
• Ensures that quality project standards are met as prescribed by EY Technology through the effective implementation or use of approved processes, methodologies and deliverables

Skills and attributes for success

• Experience of managing IT projects with personal accountability for delivering to time and cost for large, complex projects typically up to $10m in value and 12 to 18 months in duration
• Mastery of project management methodology, tools and templates (includes project planning, schedule development, scope management and cost management)
• Track record of customer focus, based on openness, trust, and delivering on promises
• Experienced in managing to contract; ensuring clients and suppliers alike perform in accordance with original agreement
• Experience across packaged and bespoke systems and infrastructure, ideally on an international basis
• Management skills to manage one or more large, complex projects simultaneously
• IT background with experience across the systems development life cycle with experience in all project phases – plan, initiate, elaborate, design, build, test, implement.
• Knowledge and use of industry-standard project methods, tools and techniques e.g. RAIDS, budget, communication
• Strong team working skills across matrixed client, supplier and geographically dispersed virtual teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Leader in the use of IT methodologies, processes and standards for project management
• A degree in Computer Science or a related discipline; or equivalent work experience
• 15 to 20 years in a corporate IT environment
• 10 to 15 years’ experience in project management
• Other relevant experience in a related technical field (application development, deployment/implementation and infrastructure)

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Project management certification (PMI/CAPM or PMP, PRINCE2)
• Familiarity with ITIL v2 or 3
• Work experience in a professional services industry