My longstanding financial services client are urgently seeking an experienced Program Manager to join a complex company wide IT Business Transformation program on an initial 6 month contract (extension highly likely).
The successful Program Manager will lead the completion of a complex IT and business transformation program current build stage to successful implementation/roll out, ensuring alignment with business objectives and timelines.
Key responsibilities are delivering efficient & improved business processes and managing the client’s project portfolio in cooperation with IT Services, 3 party suppliers and internal & external stakeholders.
- 6 month contract – Extensions highly likely
- Start ASAP
- Hybrid working – onsite in Amsterdam / 40% remote working
Responsibilities:
- Program Leadership & Team management – Manage the project within time, scope and budget
- Stakeholder & dependency management
- Program Risk Management
- Resource Allocation
- Quality Assurance
- Progress Monitoring & Reporting
- Change Management
- Continuous Improvement
- Project & Change governance
- Change Management
Skills & experience:
- The successful Senior Project manager will need a background of Management and Leadership from within complex large global organisations
- Ideally have a background of working within Financial Services / Insurance / Credit Risk / Banking
- Proven Leadership experience – Program Management within Business Transformation / Change management
- Proficiency in Program management methodologies & tools – Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, Jira, Trello
- Ideally have a background of managing System Integration and Software development delivered by 3rd parties / offshore teams
- Excellent communication & stakeholder management skills – C-suite, Internal / external stakeholders, 3rd parties, suppliers
- Excellent English & Dutch language skills
Our longstanding Financial Services client is urgently seeking an experienced Risk Manager to join a project team on an initial 12-month contract, based in Amsterdam. The successful Risk Manager will need to be fluent in Dutch and English and will ideally have a background of working in the financial services, banking, or insurance sector.
The contract Risk Manager will join a business transformation programme to harmonise business units across 12 European countries to gain efficiencies and accelerate growth. The project is in the second phase of deployment and the Risk Manager will need excellent stakeholder management sills, and be able to identify potential risks, devise possible solutions & countermeasures to bring the project home in the final phase. You will also be instrumental in ensuring the new platform & applications are adherent to policies, standards, and compliance.
- 12 month initial contract – extensions highly likely
- Full time hours – 40 hours per week
- Hybrid working – 2 days per week onsite in Amsterdam
Skills & experience needed:
- Demonstrable experience as a Risk Manager – ideally from within Global financial services organisations
- Excellent managerial & people skills, strong communication & stakeholder management skills
- Knowledge of company information infrastructure and needs, as well as its role towards company goals
- Expert knowledge of risk assessment and prevention
- Strategic thinking in service of business goals and company strategy
- Ability to communicate complex information to non-technical audiences throughout the company
- Ability to brief, train and direct staff in the application of new protocols
- Ability to formulate constructive feedback to a wide array of different stakeholders
- Ideally have good knowledge of Cyber security concepts – any certifications in this area would be advantageous (CISSP, CRMP, ICS2, CRISC, COSO or equivalent)
- Fluent English & Dutch language skills
