Project Manager Lead

7 days ago

Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Fnz Full time

Job Overview

The role of a Delivery Manager at FNZ is crucial in ensuring the successful completion of assigned delivery projects within one of our Solution Centres. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for leading all aspects of project delivery, actively driving projects to meet agreed time and quality commitments.

This role requires an uncompromising focus on delivering to project milestones and the ability to motivate teams to achieve those milestones. You will be responsible for managing the day-to-day activities of Analyst Testers, Analyst Developers, and other assigned team members for the project.

You will liaise regularly with client engagement Project Managers and report directly to the Head of Delivery. This role may include other duties as required by the Head of Delivery and the Head of Solution Centre from time to time.

Specific Role Responsibilities

  • Maintaining an accurate understanding of project scope, deliverables, and schedule and delivery expectations from Solution Consultants, Project Managers, and Client Directors.
  • To be ruthless in managing change to agreed scope.
  • Understanding broader business context of the Client and business case for the project.
  • Creating, owning, and maintaining accurate and detailed estimates of project activities and determining the most efficient project approach and resource utilisation.
  • Ability to dissect and challenge all delivery estimates.
  • Maintaining resource allocations in the required tool(s) with the appropriate Resource Manager.
  • Planning and scheduling: Creating, owning, and maintaining project schedules/plans, detailing all activities to be completed by the Solution Centre on a project.
  • Assigning responsibilities for project activities and their delivery milestones to ensure the most efficient use of resources and skill sets.
  • Identifying upfront and securing the resources (people, services, infrastructure, 3rd party) required to deliver the project and to forward plan with efficient capacity planning.
  • Project tracking: Daily monitoring of progress against project milestones and expected daily throughput, promptly reporting any deviation from plan to the Head of Delivery.
  • Quality assurance: Monitoring the quality of deliverables and working with the functional heads to manage quality.
  • Delivery focus: Ensuring the project team tracks and delivers against the milestones in the project schedule and being ultimately accountable for the success or failure of the work the team is responsible for delivering.
  • Ensuring sprints are managed meticulously and all analysis/build/test activities are managed in line with sprint dates and exit criteria.
  • Risk management: Identifying and managing project delivery issues, risks, and dependencies, promptly reporting any variation to the Head of Delivery.
  • Continuous Improvement: Contributing to post-implementation reviews, when required, to identify learning and improvement opportunities for future projects.

Reporting and Communication

  • Providing clear, concise, and accurate reports on project status, progress against milestones, daily velocity and burn down, issues, and risks in the agreed format and within the agreed timeframes.
  • Create, manage, and track project artefacts, including but not limited to: Project development schedules, Detailed build project plans, Build scope statements, Build estimates.
  • Maintain visibility across the team and group by encouraging communication and organising regular project team meetings.
  • Proactively communicate project status and issues and provide timely escalation where appropriate.
  • Liaising with internal departments such as IT Infrastructure, Investment Operations, and engaging in client meetings; liaising directly with the client to facilitate information exchange or remove dependencies.
  • Help to facilitate efficient communication between the client engagement and Solution Centre teams.

SDLC

  • Understand and adhere to FNZ's SDLC, ensuring that all controls and relevant processes are completed satisfactorily by the project delivery team.
  • Specifically, the agile user stories are well defined in business language and testing is prioritised by the developers.
  • Ensure that at all times the project is compliant with all PMO reporting requirements and standards.

Leadership

  • Familiar with daily scrum sessions and the role of a scrum master and employ that to help with day-to-day management of project teams of Solution Consultants, Analyst Developers, Analyst Testers, and other assigned team members.
  • Be an innovative leader by planning and delivering the project in the most efficient way.
  • If required, support and manage other delivery managers within the solution centre (only required for Lead Delivery Manager).
  • Ability to elicit and interpret risks/ issues/ roadblocks from the team and help/co-ordinate ways to mitigate/fix these.
  • Ensuring all team members are motivated, productive, and focused on completing their assigned work activities as quickly and efficiently as possible and to agreed quality standards.
  • Actively tracks team velocity and quality as an objective measure of performance and takes proactive action to correct where appropriate.
  • Providing feedback on performance, managing poor performance promptly, and escalating to Solution Centre management as appropriate.
  • Proactively raising any potential personnel issues or delivery risk with the Project Manager and Head of Delivery.

About Us

FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone, everywhere can invest in their future on their terms.

We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry, but complexity holds firms back.

We created wealth's growth platform to help.

We provide a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations.

All in a regulated financial institution.

We partner with over 650 financial institutions and 12,000 wealth managers, with US$1.5 trillion in assets under administration (AUA).

Together with our customers, we help over 20 million people from all wealth segments to invest in their future.

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