Senior IT Project Manager

Division: Group Digital Capabilities (GDC) - Client Onboarding and Interactions Tribe 

The Client Onboarding and Interaction Tribe focuses on improving the customer onboarding journey for businesses. We empower our teams to take ownership of their services, driving them towards greater efficiency and automation.   

Our responsibilities include managing Identity Access Management, Service Subscription Management, and finally handling corporate packages for client relationship management (KYC).  

We recently started an ambitious roadmap aimed at bringing our assets to the next level in order to make them relevant to our new D-FMI (Digital Financial Market Infrastructure) corporate strategy. 

The Role:

• Ensuring on-time delivery of IT projects, within the committed budget and with the expected quality.
• Integrating contributions from various teams into a globally consistent plan, in alignment with our Agile Operating Model.
• Writing comprehensive project memos to enable informed decision-making by Business Sponsors and IT management.
• Providing regular status reports to senior management and various stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, manage, and maintain project plans and forecasts, including resource requirements, costs, dependencies, risks, and their mitigations.
• Manage virtual teams across various divisions and entities, including third-party suppliers.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and customers, providing advice, guidance, and options regarding IT investments.
• Define project governance (deliverables, processes, and ceremonies) and supervise the progress and quality of its execution.
• Lead the risk, issue, and change control processes for assigned projects, and build action plans to mitigate risks, resolve issues, and track action items.
• Control and supervise the progress of projects, reporting to senior management and the Sponsorship Committee.
• Manage projects in accordance with internal standards (methodology & tools) and our Agile Operating Model.

Profile:

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in a project management role, with a mastery of Agile methodology.
• Strong leadership skills to adapt your style according to the situation and different stakeholders.
• A good technical and business understanding.
• Interpersonal skills to influence decisions made with the project sponsor/client.
• Excellent communication skills (listening, writing, and presenting) at all levels, from staff members to senior management.
• The ability to learn quickly in a complex environment and to synthesize the situation.
• Strong negotiation skills, conflict management, and influencing skills at different levels of management.
• Effective delegation of tasks and responsibilities while maintaining overall control.
• Assertiveness to drive tasks to completion.
• Proficiency in English.

Assets:

• Certification in PRINCE2 and/or PMI (or similar IT frameworks).
• Agile Certified Practitioner

About Us

Why join us

Embark on your new adventure at Euroclear, and work at the heart of the global capital markets. We connect over 2,000 financial institutions across the globe. As an open and resilient infrastructure, we contribute to the stability of the financial markets. We help clients cut through complexity, lower costs, and mitigate risks of financial transactions. At Euroclear, we have the clear ambition to use our key role to facilitate and accelerate a sustainable global financial system. 

What We Offer:

• Work closely with inspiring, supportive and engaged colleagues from more than 80 different countries. 
• Practice your talents in a highly professional international environment. 
• Join a learning and development environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing and training.
• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits.

New ways of working

Find your own optimal balance within our hybrid working model, where you can connect at the office and also benefit from remote working. 

Great Place to Work for All

We are committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates diversity and strives to be a Great Place to Work for All. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment, regardless of any aspect that makes them unique (including race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, pregnancy, disability, ...). If you need any specific accommodation due to disability or any other reason, you can let the recruiter know during your application process.

About the Team

The Group Digital Capabilities (GDC) division contributes to Euroclear’s competitiveness by delivering reliable and sustainable IT solutions for the financial securities markets. Our teams deliver new IT solutions and improve existing applications for both our internal and external clients. We deploy changes into the production environment in a controlled and structured way that does not compromise production stability and we ensure applicative production support.