Project Manager

2 weeks ago

Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom KPMG-UnitedKingdom Full time
About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to join our team at KPMG-UnitedKingdom. As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for leading software implementation projects from start to finish, ensuring timely and within-budget delivery.

Key Responsibilities
  • Plan and manage assigned projects, keeping stakeholders informed about project progress.
  • Compile and agree project plans with clients, ensuring alignment with contractual arrangements.
  • Monitor progress against project plans and budgets, correcting and escalating abnormal situations as needed.
  • Track actual costs versus plan, maintaining awareness of ongoing non-trivial problems and their solutions.
  • Ensure project objectives are met, monitoring and controlling all individuals allocated to the project.
  • Manage third-party subcontractors, ensuring deliverables are produced on time, to required quality standards, and in line with agreed commercials.
  • Proactively predict and mitigate risks, ensuring risks and issues are correctly assessed and reported.
  • Maintain and publish project dashboards, preparing weekly reports for review by the Program Manager.
  • Participate in client reporting sessions, including weekly progress review meetings.
  • Track actual versus budgeted costs and effort on a weekly basis.
  • Plan and monitor validation activities with clients to ensure all requirements are met.
  • Plan and monitor internal verification activities, including reviews, walkthroughs, and testing.
  • Oversee the correction of non-conformities to ensure quality of all project deliverables.
  • Work closely with the Solution Architect to ensure overall quality of deliverables prior to release to clients.
  • Receive, analyze, and coordinate the implementation of project/system live changes requested by clients.
  • Address project customer satisfaction issues, escalating feedback as necessary for further action.
  • Participate in KPMG-UnitedKingdom resource management, utilization, and capacity planning processes.
  • Contribute to the continuous refinement and improvement of our best practice project delivery methodology.
About You

We are looking for an established Project Manager with a proven track record of delivering software implementation projects. You will have experience managing third-party subcontractors, ideally including independent software vendors (ISVs). You will also have a strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly with Microsoft Project, Excel, and SharePoint.

We prefer candidates with Prince 2 Practitioner certification or APM professional certification. Experience in Agile project management, ideally with direct experience and knowledge of tools including Jira, VSTS, TFS, and methodologies including Scrum and Kanban, is also desirable.

You will have excellent time management skills, with demonstrable experience of working under pressure to tight deadlines and managing a high workload with conflicting priorities. You will also have excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and manage a range of relationships in a complex environment.

We are looking for a flexible approach to work, with a focus on delivery to deadlines and high standards. You will be able to handle highly confidential information with tact and discretion.

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