🇮🇹 Milan, Italy · 1d ago
Senior Project Manager
Fiserv
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Calling all innovators – find your future at Fiserv.We’re Fiserv, a global leader in Fintech and payments, and we move money and information in a way that moves the world. We connect financial institutions, corporations, merchants, and consumers to one another millions of times a day – quickly, reliably, and securely. Any time you swipe your credit card, pay through a mobile app, or withdraw money from the bank, we’re involved. If you want to make an impact on a global scale, come make a difference at Fiserv.About your role:Reporting to the Program Director, the role of Senior Project Manager is to scope, plan and deliver projects and initiatives to meet specified business needs, controlling resources from several areas (and potentially third parties) to achieve agreed cost, time and quality objectives.The Senior Project Manager has the overall accountability and responsibility for the progress and successful delivery of the project effort.What you’ll do:Defining the project briefSetting client expectations in respect of deliverables, plans and management of the projectEstablishing an appropriate project governance structure, in line with the Fiserv programme/project methodology /governanceAssisting the Client and Sponsor to obtain authorisations and signoffs on the Business CaseDocumenting the overall project approach, including the phasing strategyDeveloping estimates of resources, costs and durations and based on these, creating a high-level project schedule and requesting appropriate resourcesFacilitating the development of all elements of the project plans and schedule according to the project brief, i.e. plans for scope, schedule, budget, change management, issues, risk, procurement, testing, training, communication and transition to BAU. Agree plans with all relevant stakeholdersEnsuring that any impacts of the project on business processes and business continuity are assessed and continually monitored as the project developsExecution & ControlsManaging, maintaining and tracking the overall project plan, controls, budget and work assignments according to established Fiserv governanceReporting project status (schedule, cost, benefit, risk, issues and scope) to all stakeholders on a regular basisOrganising and facilitating appropriate level of governance meetings, to discuss status reports, provide structured escalation path and determine corrective or preventive actionsManaging project risks and issues, ensuring that project team members are actively involved in the identification and where appropriate the ownership of risks, initiating corrective action where necessaryEnsuring that project team members are accurately recording their time spent on project tasks and thus tracking budget accuratelyBuilding and maintaining a cohesive cross organisation/company project team ethos and fostering productive working relationships, optimally assigning tasks to team membersEnsuring the development and approval of all deliverablesRefining resource, cost and duration estimate as the project progresses, ensuring that requests for resources for each phase are supplied sufficiently early to enable them to be secured when neededManaging proposed changes in scope, schedule or budget with key stakeholders relaying any impact to cost, schedule or scope and providing a recommended course of action.Scheduling, managing and participating in key quality reviews and developing action plans to resolve issues arisingOrganising, leading, and motivating a matrix team of Fiserv SME’s and potentially 3rd party resourcesMaintaining a dialogue with PMO to ensure that defined project processes are followed and that any issues are resolved in a timely mannerEnsuring a clean, structured and fully supported transition to BAUProviding out of hours cover over implementation weekends when Project goes liveProject administrationCloseout & TransitionObtaining approval from the sponsor that the acceptance criteria have been metConfirming that the project’s objectives have been achievedConfirming that all outstanding risks and issues have been accepted by the sponsorPerforming comparisons of estimated and actual costs and completing financial closeoutFacilitating the project evaluation and obtaining approval to close out the project, documented within end project reportPerforming contract and project closeout activities, and archiving project information. Where applicable conducting a formal Lessons Learned session and publishing results to all stakeholdersExperience you’ll need to have:Expert in MSOffice Products especially WORD, EXCEL, PowerPoint and MS-ProjectIn-depth understanding of business processes within Client portfolioAbility to plan and monitor an entire programme consisting of multiple endpointsEducated to degree-level in Computer Science, Business, Accounting, Marketing or equivalent work experienceExcellent verbal and written communications skills in Italian/English proficiencyHistory of matrix-managing others for the successful completion of a medium to large projects. Having managed full lifecycle projects with inter-dependent or direct resourcesExperience that would be great to have:Significant proven Project Management experience preferably gained within the Finance industrySalary starting at €67,500 - negotiable depending on experience.Thank you for considering employment with Fiserv. Please:Apply using your legal nameComplete the step-by-step profile and attach your resume (either is acceptable, both are preferable).Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:Fiserv is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by law. Note to agencies:Fiserv does not accept resume submissions from agencies outside of existing agreements. Please do not send resumes to Fiserv associates. Fiserv is not responsible for any fees associated with unsolicited resume submissions.Sourced from LinkedIn. Relocantly aggregates public job postings; apply on the original site.