Project Manager Senior-Professional Services

Are you curious, motivated, and forward-thinking? At FIS you'll have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and relevant issues in financial services and technology. Our talented people empower us, and we believe in being part of a team that is open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, passionate and above all committed to delivering great results for our clients.

About the team

The successful candidate will be taking on a portfolio of challenging but rewarding professional services projects for our Balance Sheet Management clients in Europe.  This involves being at the intersection of two teams: an established consultancy of subject matter experts who have over a decade of experience of delivering product implementations, upgrades, and consulting support to banks and other clients; and the relatively newly formed Project Management Office which applies standards and governance to all of FIS's professional services projects.  This is an amazing opportunity for an experienced senior project manager to be a key contributor to enterprise scaling of a very successful line of business.

What you will be doing:

• Taking full responsibility for all aspects of managing your portfolio of projects, including detailed budgeting and tracking, project administration and leading a diverse team of consultants and specialists day-to-day.

• Influencing client and FIS stakeholders at a high level by careful, confident factual presentation of relevant project statuses, using your ability to understand and articulate alternative approaches that drive meaningful governance of the projects.

• Applying quality standards and holding teams within and outside of FIS accountable for delivering according to contractual agreements; using change control procedures to reflect deviations from scope, timing or assumptions made in project definition.

• Mastering a complex ecosystem of enterprise project management tools such as Planview and to develop and maintain accurate project plans, analyse risks and issues, forecast resource usage levels and budget overruns or underruns, and generate invoices, status reports and other PM deliverables consistent with FIS best practice.

• Showing confident ownership and coordination even under pressure when running video conferences, team meetings or when visiting client sites as sometimes required to represent FIS onsite for key client projects.  You will develop your abilities as an intuitive communicator.

• Thinking beyond the obvious and actively working your network across all functions within FIS to identify possible process improvements, helping the company succeed and deliver even more value to our clients.

What you Bring:

• At least 5-10 years' experience of delivering professional service type projects in a vendor/client context for large and challenging organisations, with extensive knowledge of project management standards, processes, procedures and guidelines.

• Understanding of IT project methodologies and life cycles, e.g., conversions, incremental, rapid delivery, classic or traditional waterfall phases of analysis, design, development, testing, implementation.  You should be able to describe confidently the context in which agile methods can be applied, the advantages and disadvantages.

• Knowledge of financial services industry or willingness to use existing professional services experience in other bluechip industries to gain expertise in what fintech projects must deliver.

• Skill in the use of negotiation techniques to reach agreement when there are widely-differing viewpoints; excellent analysis, problem-solving, team, conflict management and time management skills.

• Energy, enthusiasm, confidentiality, discretion and patience to handle difficult situations and continue to drive important projects and programs forward over a long timescale when there are delays and setbacks.

• Professional level fluency in the German language is highly desirable for this role working with European clients where some meetings are conducted in German, some in English.

Added value if you have:

• Experience in Fintech or Banking Risk sector

• Formal project management qualifications

What we offer you:

• A multifaceted job with a high degree of responsibility and a broad spectrum of opportunities

• A modern, international work environment and a dedicated and motivated team

• An opportunity to shape the formation of a new team of project managers, part of FIS's Project Management Office, serving primarily the European region for FIS's Balance Sheet Management projects

• A broad range of professional education and personal development possibilities – FIS is your final career step

• A competitive salary and benefits

• A variety of career development tools, resources and opportunities

• The chance to work on some of the most challenging, relevant issues in financial services & technology

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Sourcing Model

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