My clients are looking for a Project Manager. This is a hybrid role, working 2 days a week on-site, based in Birmingham. They are looking for someone who can ensure the project produces the required products within the specified tolerances of time, costs, quality, scope, benefits and risk. You will also be responsible for the project producing a result capable of achieving the benefits defined in the business case.
The experience below is essential for this role:
- Local or Central Government experience
- Oracle Fusion/ERP experience
- Finance Project Manager experience
Key Responsibilities:
As the programme moves forward and there is a culmination of activities required to be completed simultaneously, a Project Manager is required to focus primarily on the Finance Workstream to ensure that critical activity is coordinated and completed within the required timeframes in accordance with the Programme's plan.
Critical activities include but are not limited to work associated with key integrations:
i.e. obtaining the correct information from suppliers to allow for the completion of UAT; assist with Cutover planning so that the Finance Workstream is able to prioritise correctly, manage capacity and resources to maximum efficiency and ensure that data Migration related activities such as validation, reconciliation and data cleansing are centralised.
A clear tracker for Finance for current and future plans - using a plan created by another PM
as a framework and to include, by module: DM, Data Cleanse, Training, UAT, OAT, Cutover, CoE, JIRA, Integrations, Live Service, Change & engagement, Anything else I've missed, anything ad hoc
Daily start ups with Jan
Assistance with my diary management
Producing comm's/presentations for the team, particularly at weekly meetings, and notes from meetings via co-pilot etc.
The role will involve providing direct Project Management expertise to a number of the programme workstreams.
Ensure that the core elements of project management are being deployed consistently including project planning, resource management, risk and issue management, assumptions are documented, stage ends are adhered too.
Support project management best practice across the Oracle Programme - through the implementation of best practice programme and project management methodologies and ensuring consistency and adherence to the governance structures.
The role includes designing and producing the plans, including the high level plan, detailed project plan and stage plans.
Facilitate project planning workshops in conjunction with the workstream team and wider BCC stakeholders, as appropriate.
Take corrective action when plans are at risk of being off track and ensure corrective action is taken. Prepare exception reports and change control requests.
Support workstream delivery teams through mentoring and coaching techniques. Ensure an effective risk and issue management and analysis process is deployed.
Working with workstream leads to develop strategies to ensure risks and issues are identified, managed before they magnify and are escalated through the governance structures.
Ensure that programme data is being captured accurately and consistently to produce programme reporting.
Report on project status consistently and effectively. Provide feedback on project status and progress (budget, % completion, progress against target/KPIs) for your assigned workstream as well as across the programme. Produce workstream highlight reports in a timely manner, with responsibility for gathering key performance data and status reports from workstream leads and team members.
Ensure that best practice standards are embedded across projects.
Ensure the PMO promotes a culture of team work, collaboration and provides all appropriate support to workstream colleagues in the delivery of this complex programme.
Ensure that key programme documents to support sustaining the business change and building an enduring organisation.
Support the Head of Project Office in the development of a 'centre of excellence' resource for programme and project management
What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.
Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at (url removed)