Project Coordinator / Project Manager

About The Role

• Candidates will be part of the Professional Services Group and work as project Manager and work with a team of implementation consultants. An Implementation Consultant uses their GoldenSource and functional knowledge to understand client requirements, advice on solution design in line with Product and industry best practices and use their technical knowledge to configure and test the solution for our clients after the initial purchase has already taken place.
• An attractive candidate will typically have 10 to 15 years of experience and up to 5 years of leadership responsibility in managing medium to large-scale, technical/ functional project implementations for an enterprise software solutions provider focusing on change the bank activities.

Industry Experience

• GoldenSource is looking to augment its Professional Services team with someone having specific industry experience within the IT arena having previously worked with on projects in Data management space for asset types like Equities, Bonds, FX, Futures, Forwards, Options, Swaps, Volatilities, Credit Curves, and Commodities with client facing exposure.

Key Responsibilities

• Developing project plans, including defining project scope, goals, deliverables, and schedules
• Coordinating with internal and external resources to ensure project success.
• Managing project budgets and finances and ensuring that all project costs are controlled and recorded.
• Communicating project status to stakeholders, including project team members, sponsors, and senior management
• Managing and tracking project issues and risks, and escalating as necessary
• Ensuring that all project deliverables are completed on time, within scope, and to the required quality standards.
• Continuously monitoring and evaluating project progress and adjusting as necessary to ensure project success.
• Developing and maintaining positive relationships with stakeholders, including project team members, sponsors, and suppliers
• Participate in business meetings with Function/Delivery Heads; review contracts, carry out risk analysis and mitigation exercises and update the Management on the same.
• Build customer confidence through detailing, pro-active nature, business value additions and quality.
• Conduct regular status meetings with stakeholders and communicate risks identified, actions planned, forecasted dates for milestones, dependencies with client teams etc.
• Negotiate and arrive at consensus on scope changes, change requests etc.

Required Skill.

• Extensive project and program management experience in a fast-paced, multi-project environment, with responsibility for Risk Management and client engagement Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is a plus.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to technical and non-technical audiences of various levels in the organization, e.g., executive, management, individual contributors.
• Proficiency in client communication and escalation management Excellent problem solving, team and time management skills managing multiple deadlines for self and others.
• Proficiency in evaluating the performance capabilities of subordinates as well as counsel subordinates in development and/or corrective discipline.
• Proficiency in making projections of future expenses based on analysis of cost effectiveness of past expenditures.
• Experience managing multiple clients and a global client base with strong knowledge of Agile/SCRUM processes. Experience of leading teams located in multiple regions would be an added advantage.
• Proficiency to operate independently.

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