Project Manager – (Mullingar/ Maynooth)

Job Title:
Project Manager

Department:
IT services

Location:
Mullingar Ireland

Reporting Line:

Full Time, Part Time or Job Share:
Contract for 8 mths, with possible extension
Internal / External Relationships:
• Operational Users within CAS Business
• IT Staff within
• external clients
• Third party suppliers (Sopra)

Main Purpose of the Job:

To act as the project manager for one or more projects within IT services.

Key Responsibilities:
Producing IT project plans, from project initiation through to delivery and handover to support.
Manage software development project teams to achieve delivery.
Applying business and IT monitoring and controls procedures to projects.
Reporting Project progress, Issues and Risks to business and IT managers.

The IT Project Managers role includes;
• Manage the IT project plan
• Update the project delivery plan
• Controlling stages
• Managing product delivery ( including Specifications, Software, Test plans etc)
• Manage stage boundaries

Obtaining authorisation to proceed from project board, where appropriate
· Manage software development project teams to achieve delivery.
• Managing project change control
• Managing project Quality
• Build a working relationship with project delivery project manager and offshore project manager

• Reporting project progress

Essential
Desirable
Knowledge:
· Project Management
· Project Planning
· Share Point and Microsoft products
· Financial Systems
· Oracle
· SQL
· Oracle Applications
· Database applications
· Good working knowledge of MS Project, Word, Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook
· IT Infrastructure
· Educated to degree level or with comparable experience.
· PRINCE2 Practitioner qualification or with comparable experience
· Experience of IT Portfolio management.
· Experience of Web development.
· Experience of Registration Systems, Collectives, Transfer Agency, Share Plan administration, Share registration or Equities market

Skills:
· Communicates IT and PM ideas to non-IT users and vice versa.
· Attention to detail, while being able to present the ‘bigger picture’.

· Managing stakeholder expectations.
· Good at multi-tasking
· Workflow
· Software integration
· Managing parallel development streams (merging code)
· Knowledge of relevant development languages for the programme (e.g. VB.NET)

Experience:
· IT Project Management experience – 3 years minimum
· The ability to implement new, or improve current Project Management processes and procedures.
· Proven track record of managing complex IT projects across multiple sites
· Managing bespoke software development projects
· Requirements gathering
· Testing
· Team Management
· Data Migration
· Report writing (progress reports & board reports)
· Experience of complex and fast-moving IT sys