Project Leader (m/f)
Description
The Project Leader is responsible for organising software installation and implementation for our customers. As the first point of contact and representative for FERNBACH, it must be his/her aim to wind up our projects in accordance with the pre-defined schedules, targets and budgets. He/she accompanies a customer's project team throughout the entire project, while co-ordinating personnel deployment, managing tasks, prioritising and monitoring deadlines to ensure project success.
Area of Responsibility
The Project Leader is responsible for delivering and implementing his/her projects correctly. He/she works mainly on one project and ensures that communication and work distribution in the project proceeds efficiently with regard to technical and functional matters. In addition, the Project Leader manages the correct delivery and complete implementation of a project. Moreover his/her technical and functional skills make him/her a competent contact for all those involved in a project. The Project Leader is capable of requesting a specific amount of support from Product Managers and experts outside of his/her team. He/she quickly becomes aware of bottlenecks and milestones in a project. Discrepancies in a project schedule and budget are passed on by the Project Leader to the Program Manager who is provided with all the details in order to communicate with the customer in question. The Project Leader assists the Program Manager with the PSC, status reports as well as change notifications and change requests.
Requirements
Languages
- fluent written and spoken German
- English (very good to good written and spoken)
- any other foreign language would be an asset.
Qualification: University degree in Economics, Computer Science or a similar discipline
Experience:
- several years' experience in implementing banking applications or
- in financial consulting or
- project experience in a bank (business unit or IT) or
- references showing project management experience
Skills
- good IT skills
- SQL
- structured, well-organised and transparent working procedure
- good organisational and planning skills
- high degree of willingness to travel abroad
- ability to deal with people openly, high degree of self-initiative
Task and Level of Authority
In addition to the tasks described above, the Project Leader is responsible for:
- he/she organises project implementation and defines the project environment (contacts, employees, premises, software and hardware)
- he/she becomes actively involved in the projects
- he/she is responsible for communication with the implementation partner or customer and the project team
- he/she has authority over the team members as regards projects (disciplinary action remains the right of the Program Manager)
- he/she reports on the project status to the Program Manager and the customers and helps to bring about decisions on project procedure
- he/she works out alternatives if there are discrepancies in project procedure
- he/she effectively co-ordinates and optimises the deployment of experts (product management, technicians, tuners) who are not in the project team
- he/she monitors a project's progress and works specifically on having the project accepted as well as on the UAT
- he/she manages the budget and the SOW and documents discrepancies in the change notification which are then checked with the Program Manager.
- he/she works out change requests with the Program Manager, if necessary
- he/she co-ordinates the routine tasks of all project staff and is responsible for schedule and resource planning in projects
- he/she provides detailed, clear and transparent information on time to the Program Manager who can then efficiently organise the communication with the customer at management level and/or when a situation escalates.
- he/she is aware of additional customer requirements which are then checked with the Program Manager
Successful projects and satisfied customers
FERNBACH is a group of medium-sized companies operating worldwide in software and consulting. For the past thirty years, FERNBACH has enjoyed considerable success in the financial technology sector. A broad customer base, ranging from international financial institutions to regional private banks, relies on FERNBACH's solutions.
