Resource Manager

Resource Manager

Posted 1 week ago by Pontoon Solutions

Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
London Area, United Kingdom

Summary: The Resource Manager role in London involves overseeing IT team activities, managing resource allocation, and ensuring project delivery through effective communication with stakeholders. The position requires forecasting resource needs, tracking project budgets, and mentoring team members to adhere to administrative procedures. The Resource Manager will also coordinate relationships between various teams and handle audit-related activities to maintain operational integrity. This role is pivotal in aligning team efforts with business objectives and ensuring transparency in processes.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Understand and assist management with IT team activities and administrative control requirements.
  • Create and monitor resource forecasts, gathering estimations and schedule requirements.
  • Forecast the need for new employees for upcoming projects.
  • Ensure resource allocation by reviewing project status and timelines.
  • Meet stakeholders to report on project progress and address blockers.
  • Address resource demands for successful project delivery.
  • Implement risk management strategies to prevent losses and inactivity.
  • Track project budget and costing requirements.
  • Streamline documentation processes for transparency.
  • Coordinate relationships between teams and departments regarding resource assignment and budgeting.
  • Handle application development processes and audit-related activities.
  • Mentor team members to ensure good working practices.
  • Communicate with business sections on behalf of the team.
  • Manage enquiries from auditors and maintain communication with team members.
  • Participate in system support and operational activities.
  • Act on behalf of senior management in their absence.

Key Skills:

  • Strong understanding of IT team activities and administrative control.
  • Experience in resource forecasting and project management.
  • Ability to track budgets and manage costing requirements.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
  • Knowledge of risk management strategies.
  • Experience in mentoring and team management.
  • Familiarity with audit processes and application development.
  • Ability to streamline documentation and ensure transparency.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: London

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other

Detailed Description From Employer:

Resource Manager London 6 Months initially Tasks range from understanding quite broad areas of IT Team activities such as those noted below to assist management level people with their tasks and responsibilities in both technical and team focused administrative control requirements. Creating or monitor a creation of resource forecast, gathering estimation and schedule requirement from relevant business stakeholders and development team. Forecasting the need for new employees for upcoming projects. Ensure allocation of resources by reviewing up-to-date project status and timeline. Meeting stakeholders to report on project progress and tackle any blockers. Addressing resource demands of all departments for the project's successful delivery Preventing losses and inactivity by setting risk management strategies Tracking project budget and costing requirements Streamlining documentation processes to ensure transparency. JRIE team focused tasks throughout the company organisation across JRIE. Following JRIE management concepts and methods. Coordinating the relationships between the team and BI IT Department from resource assignment and budgeting point. Coordinating the relationships between the recruiting team, development team and individual Business sections. Handling procedures and control methods of application development processes. Handling external/internal audit related activities. Mentoring team members to ensure good team working practices. Ensuring that the team members are following correctly the various administrative procedures such as daily timesheets, absence requests, holiday planning, the planning of team training agendas and performance monitoring cycle processes. Communicating with different business sections on behalf of the team to represent their interests with regard to system construction/operations. Developing a better understanding between the business and the team as a whole. Handling enquiries from external and internal Auditors on behalf of the team to better manage their inspections by maintaining communications between the team members and the auditors. Ensuring that the team members are following correctly the various procedures on application construction/maintenance such as Security template changes, Change management requests, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Service Requests (as instructed to other IT sections), Peer Code Reviews (PCR) and System access permission set ups. Participating in system support/operation activities to monitor and respond to operational issues in audit/security perspective to have an understanding of what happens on the actual operation floors. Acting on behalf of senior management and management level, in their absence, to ensure that team members carry out their tasks and responsibilities as management requires