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