The Technology Senior Project Manager will work as part of a central programme and project management centre of excellence within Technology, working with internal and external clients to deliver end-to-end solutions across our digital platforms. The purpose of the role is to manage the project, client expectations, and support delivery from the other functions of the team. Each of our Senior Project Managers are consummate team players who know when to lead and when to step back and support their team, and are comfortable with both roles. They are problem solvers who enjoy immersing themselves in new challenges.
The role involves working across Technology and the wider KPMG client and internal facing community to drive: delivery excellence; agility in our delivery approach to ensure the business can remain highly responsive to market demand and can bring services to market quickly and safely.
A successful applicant will have 5 years or more experience of project managing workstreams across a full project lifecycle. This also includes experience of integrating into wider programme or organisation governance routines as required. The successful applicant may have qualifications and/or accreditation in recognised project/programme management methodologies or professional bodies.
Industry Knowledge:
• Has credible conversations with clients, demonstrating knowledge of their organisation, industry and sector.
• Builds credibility internally and externally (e.g., referencing publications and data sources in discussions with internal and external stakeholders)
• Challenges and brings alternative perspectives based on insight and knowledge
• Shares experiences and knowledge of clients and sectors and provides training to others
Experience and Background:
• Demonstrable experience of applying methods and ideally holding accreditation within waterfall / agile project management (for example, Prince 2, APM Practitioner or Certified Scrum Master)
• Expert in the use of standard project management tools (e.g. MS Project, JIRA)
• A track record of delivering complex technology projects on time and on budget
• The ability to work in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision, handle quickly changing priorities, and be capable of managing resources to achieve maximum results
• A history of building solid relationships with customers and your teams
• A talent for getting your point across, both verbal and written
• Experience in interfacing with a customer’s C-level executives
• experience in budget management
• Skills:
o Systems development lifecycle for waterfall and agile type projects.
o Project management, client relationship management, stakeholder engagement.
o Business analysis (including requirements definition, process mapping, op model definition), systems integration, systems implementation, testing.
o Knowledge of business / application architectures, solution definition, integration architectures.
o Ability to facilitate collection of requirements
o Excellent workshop facilitation abilities
o Excellent planning and estimating skills
o Excellent Communication skills at all levels.
o Solid problem solving, decision making and analytical capabilities.
o Confident in dealing with complexity or ambiguity and setting direction, bringing stakeholders along on the way.
Key Skills
• Track record of shaping and leading successful delivery of technology, data and business transformation initiatives.
• Experience of managing projects, co-ordinating tasks and activities, managing to deadlines, anticipating challenges, difficulties and pressure points.
• Experience of identifying and mitigating delivery risks, as well as leading the resolution of issues / blockers.
• Experience in managing third party vendors and providers.
• Manage programme / project procurement.
• Understands relevant legislation, governance models and processes.
• Protects against scope creep against the solution design and establishes robust change control processes.
• Cost management, including the establishment of baseline costs and tracking, and contingency planning.
• Delivery excellence; agility in our delivery approach to ensure the business can remain highly responsive to market demand and can bring services to market quickly and safely; a culture to re-enforce technology as a technology enabler for our clients
• To be seen amongst peers as a role model and SME in hybrid - agile/waterfall project management
• Deliver robust and business relevant project reporting – to include Steering committee packs.
• Lead the Technical, Product Owner, Business Analyst and Design Leads throughout a project
• Ability to deliver a project assurance capability
• Has thorough knowledge of Technology wider strategy and how project assurance fits into the strategy
• Ability to coach the organisation and key stakeholders relating to the benefits and advantages of relevant programme / project methodologies, thereby contributing towards the overall organisation's maturity.
• Ability to coach and guide other team members relating to every aspect of the programme and/or project so that the team members can understand their tasks fully and act on them efficiently.
• To develop tools and techniques for disturbing distributing tasks according to the skills of every team member and also to evaluate the performance of all the team members
• To provide clarity around priorities and goals of programme – also quick wins where appropriate
• Ability to identify all internal/external resources required in completing the programme successfully
• To keep an eye on the latest strategies, tools, terminologies used in project management – i.e. a commercial lens - so that you may adopt those to increase productivity
• To develop and execute an efficient internal communication strategy for ensuring communication with all levels of management within the team
• Participate in sales and contribute to winning engagements
• Ensure the project delivery team complies with KPMG standards and frameworks
• Forecasting of resource utilisation, time, costs, and other commitments required
• Resolves conflicts
• Handles difficult conversations with stakeholders
• Effective Risk and Issue Management
• Creates & Communicates Risk Management Strategies