Job Reference : ZJ00005651

Project Management Lead (MNC bank, attractive salary, no travel!)

Job Reference : ZJ00005651
  • 7 -10 Years
  • 50k or above
  • Contract
  • Kowloon
  • Banking
  • Banking & Finance

    • Job Description

    • Manages a large multi-faceted project/ or multiple projects at the same time.
    • Engages with subject matter experts as well as senior stakeholders across the organization to assure timely delivery of respective Projects
    • Owns project goals leveraging expertise to inspire a sense of shared purpose within the project team.
    • Uses best practice PMO methodology to create a project plans to fit the stake holders/customers’ needs  to deliver desired outcomes.
    • Drives end results of the project as a representative of the Independent Compliance Risk Management.
    • Prepares, maintains, and submits clear and concise activity/progress reports and time recording/management reports.
    • Assesses project risk potentials and discover potential problems before they occur.
    • Defines, teaches, and enforces the use of good project management practices such as techniques in resolving complex, interdependent activities into tasks and sub-tasks that are documented, monitored and controlled.
    • Constantly improving their own and their teams' skills through lessons-learned when risks emerge; Applies lessons learned timely throughout the project lifecycle.
    • Possess the knowledge, skills and experience to be able to recognize when problems surface or potential problems are looming.
    • Articulates problems, bring the right people together to solve problems and know when the problem has been properly addressed and closed.
    • Promotes partner involvement through effectively communicating project status upward and to the Client.
    • Communicates to all concerned parties project milestones, status updates, as well as any existing or potential customer escalation issues.
    • Proactively follows escalation and change control processes.
    • Owns all management reports on a given engagement.
    • Promotes good working relationships across a project, cultivating the people skills needed to develop trust and communication among all of a project's stakeholders: its sponsors, those who will make use of the project's results, those who command the resources needed, and the project team members.

    Requirements

    • Bachelor’s degree or above in Legal, Business Management or related discipline
    • 5-7 years of project management experience –preferably from financial services environment or consultancy practice.
    • Ability to communicate with multiple levels of organization (e.g. working group subject matter experts, as well as senior steering committee members)
    • Ability to develop project plans, manage individual deadlines and goals.
    • Knowledge of project metrics, including gathering, reporting, trend analysis, creation, metrics.
    • Ability to identify issues and problems, generate solutions and choose appropriate alternatives using basic root cause analysis.
    • Manage client expectations, anticipates operational and tactical risks and tracks them; clarify, identify, and track requirements and issues, remove barriers, resolve minor project issues and escalate to immediate manager where required.
    • Proficient in MS Office applications, MS Project, VISIO, Adobe Acrobat Professional.