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About the team

In today's highly competitive private equity market, firms must not only deliver superior returns, but also respond to more stringent reporting requirements and increasing demands for information - both from within and outside their organization. Throughout the industry there is mounting pressure on organizations to do more, requiring a clear technology strategy that not only addresses the demands of today, but also enables the growth and performance of tomorrow.

Position: Project Manager - Technology

What you will be doing

• Plan Project
  • Build project plan to meet client expectation
  • Negotiate timelines
  • Account for contingency
  • Predict demand and manage
  • Balance Time, Value and cost
  • Integrate plan with other projects in the program
  • Unblock items that cause delay in executing projects
  • Tracks available capacity, holidays and manage the impacts

• Risk management
  • Predict schedule variance, suggest steps/options to overcome
  • Abreast with team dynamics that influence timeline and quality delivery
  • Convey assumptions, manage them so they don't turn to risks
  • Understands the nuances of Time and Material and Fixed Cost projects
  • Predicts and Brings budget overruns to the discussion
  • Manages Business continuity situations

• Communication
  • Collaborates with stakeholders
  • Stays in constant touch with clients with latest updates
  • Conveys effects of CRs to the plan, proposes alternatives
  • Warns teams of possible risks, helps team understand the risks involved
  • Raise concerns well in advance to prepare for (and suggest) alternatives,
  • Keep plan up to date
  • Communicate priorities, help team understand
  • Ask questions to the team to challenge commitment to ensure VUCA are considered
  • Participates in steerco meetings and conveys the decisions back to the team adjusts the plan as necessary

• Influencing
  • Ask probing questions to trigger solutions
  • Bring in convincing perspective for schedule variance
  • Negotiate priorities
  • Stress on creating/building value

• Tasks oriented, with frequent follow-up
  • Follow up with team to update tasks status in ALM/time tracking tool
  • Maintain the various state of the tasks/gaps/epics/stories
  • Help team breakdown the requirements (?)
  • Obtain necessary approvals for the CRs and their impact to the plan
  • Understands the team's combination in terms of their competency (?)

• Reporting the status - Project progress
  • Build report Cadence
  • Understand the needs of report consumer and prepare accordingly

• Billing and forecasting
  • Manage project spends (h/w, s/w, HR)
  • Set billing targets week on week/month on month to the team
  • Predict the spend overruns manage influencers

What you bring

• Over all 10+ years with 5+ years of experience as an Project Manager with adept understanding of Software development life cycle
• Experience in Scrum, Kanban, and Scaled Agile Frameworks (SAFe)
• Experience running agile projects of varying size and complexity
• An excellent communicator and motivator
• Strong communication and assertive skills
• Strong in stakeholder management

Added advantage

• Agile maturity Tools, Jira Confluence
• PMP Certification, Prince
• Experience working in product development using Microsoft Technologies, Web technologies

What we offer you

• A multifaceted job with a high degree of responsibility and a broad spectrum of opportunities
• A broad range of professional education and personal development possibilities - FIS is your final career step!
• A competitive salary and benefits

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