IT Project Manager

IT Project Manager
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Who are we?

As the founding entity of RAINBOW PARTNERS, Quanteam is a consulting firm specializing in the fields of Banking, Finance, and Financial Services. Guided by our core values of closeness, teamwork, diversity, and excellence, our team of 980 expert consultants, representing 35 different nationalities, collaborates across 12 international offices: Paris, Lyon, New York, Montreal, London, Brussels, Geneva, Lisbon, Porto, Casablanca, Madrid and Singapore. Committed to sustainability (Ecovadis Gold), diversity (gender index: 92%), and quality of work life (Best Workplace Experience), Quanteam is a
- thinking enterprise.

Our Expertise

With a dual expertise in both business and IT, Quanteam supports its corporate clients (investment banks, asset management companies, private and retail banks, custodians, etc. ) across the entire Front-to-Back spectrum in evolving their business activities and transformation projects.

Our teams are organized into 5 expertise areas:

➡ Quantitative Finance

➡ Risk, Compliance, and Regulatory

➡ Operations and Finance

➡ Transformation and Organization

➡ Information Systems

In 2023, Quanteam generated a revenue of €74. 6 million.

We are looking for an IT Project Manager

MAIN TASKS:

Preliminary step: project framing

Clarify the objective, the scope, the dependencies, the major risks & issues

Confirm the sponsorship

Ensure a clear business rationale is associated to the contemplated project (incl. high level ROI), identify benefits

Size roughly the effort required to design the solution & execute the projects

Identify contributors to be
- boarded for the study

Study / Design phase:

Clearly state the business requirements, cost, and timeframe of the project

Coordinate & challenge experts to put together a solution meeting the business requirements

Identify risk and dependencies that could jeopardize project execution

Establish the full financial of the project (cost, associated revenues, or savings)

Design the project governance (roles & responsibilities, governance bodies, stakeholders’ identification)

Design project roadmap (i. e. , the overall execution plan)

Secure the resource plan (skills, capacity) and prioritization / funding for those resources

Execution phase:

Drive the execution of the roadmap

Ensure aligned project status/progress is shared amongst the project community

Identify risk & issues and propose a mitigation action plan

Raise alerts / escalate issues / review the roadmap if required

Monitor the budget consumption

Monitor the feedback from contributors on project management and adjust when required

Prepare and chair governance bodies, produce adequate reporting, communicate

Completion phase:

Collect feedback from project participants

Identify good practices/factors of success and fields of improvement

Update project management toolkit with lessons learnt

The Project Lead is also accountable to ensure that solutions designed for the project fit with the principles and are validated by the relevant validation bodies:

Overall sound IT architecture

Operational TOM with clear mandate for each team

Strong controls framework

Simple and efficient working

Future evolution of the regulatory framework or anticipated business transformation

YOUR PROFILE AND SKILLS :

Technical skills:

Experience in a project leader role (senior PM level)

Strong track record in successful interactions with peers in a
- hierarchical framework

Strong analytical skills

Languages:

Fluent in English (mandatory)

Soft Skills:

Strong communication and reporting skills

Capacity to interact with very senior employees of the organisation

Strong interpersonal skills, at ease to develop & maintain trust and effective professional relationships

Strong
- solving and negotiation skills

Proven coaching capabilities

Hybrid role in Lisbon