Role Description
The purpose of this role is to support other project management and change professionals to realise business benefits through the application of project and programme processes and tools; and the provision of progress and performance tracking of projects within a specific Programme and business area.
Key Responsibilities
Planning, Scheduling & Delivery
* Define and manage plans and schedules ensuring accurate estimate of cost, time and resource requirements, taking into account any dependencies to ensure the successful delivery of a change initiative.
Financial & Budget Management
* Plan and control the finances and budgets for change initiatives, to control forecast and actual costs against the budgets in accordance with the organisation’s overall financial management.
Value & Benefits Management
* Establish value and benefits plan including tracking and realisation processes.
Resource & Supplier Management
* Identify and manage the resources needed for change initiative(s) from internal and/or external providers, taking account of availabilities and scheduling including the procurement and contracts for the provision of goods and/or services, monitoring compliance to Allianz standards and managing variances.
Quality Management & Governance
* Develop, maintain and apply quality management and governance structures that define clear roles, responsibilities and accountabilities for delivery of change initiative activities and outputs, reporting on progress to relevant project board/governance forums that align with organisational practice gaining appropriate authorisation for revision to plan from sponsor and change practices.
Project Governance
* Ensure that portfolio tools are used effectively to support all Portfolio Management activities.
* Act as a role model to others, with behaviours that demonstrate the Corporate Mission & Values.
* Ensure appropriate levels of compliance to the internal standards laid down under ACDMs.
* Ensure all regulatory and compliance requirements are adhered to.
* Support the reporting of progress through the defined IT Management Reporting suite.
Skills
* Project Management skills including organisation, governance, estimation, planning, scheduling, tracking, reporting and risk/issue management.
* Proficient in Project Management & Office tools such as MS Office Suite, MS Project etc.
* Understanding of financial planning and budget management skills, including business cases.
* Able to provide clear communication packs, combining information sources for senior stakeholders.
Experience
Experience in 3 of the following:
Industries
* Some experience within Financial Services, preferable Insurance.
Type of Change
* Some experience within project and change delivery.
Budget
* Some experience of financial and budget management for small change initiatives.
Resource & Supplier Management
* Some experience of resource management.
Project support
* Previous experience in project support roles.
Techniques/Methodology
* Some experience of problem solving and facilitation and using delivery methodologies such as Waterfall or Agile.
Qualifications
* Professionally qualified within Project Management – Prince II Foundation, Agile or other.
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