Summary: The Senior Project Manager role is focused on assisting an established Australian Financial Services organization with their PPM standardization efforts. The position requires extensive experience in project management, particularly within an agile environment, and expertise in Atlassian tools like JIRA. The role involves managing projects from inception to closure, ensuring stakeholder engagement, and adhering to governance frameworks. The position is based in Sydney, with remote working options and occasional office visits.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as the business owner, providing Atlassian subject matter expertise and representing organisation-wide business needs
• Manage projects from Business Case through to closure and operationalisation, to ensure that projects are appropriately structured to achieve the maximum chance of success (time, budget, scope, quality)
• Ensure efficient and timely monitoring and reporting to required stakeholders
• Manage the preparation of project cost estimates for gating submission/funding approval, and subsequently manage and report project delivery against agreed costs
• Monitor benefits against what was predicted in the business case and ensure all participants are informed and involved throughout the change programme
• Engage, inform and negotiate with stakeholders, particularly the sponsor, business owner, impacted business units, vendors and parties responsible for the services
• Adherence to the business’ delivery methodology and governance framework
• Manage vendors to deliver solutions for the project to ensure adherence to schedule, quality outcomes, cost effectiveness, appropriate risk management and seamless integration with other project delivery streams

Key Skills:

• 10+ years Project Management experience managing budgets of $2M plus and experience running projects in an agile environment
• Proven experience in implementing and managing JIRA within an enterprise environment
• Experience with JIRA administration, automation, including creating custom workflows, dashboards, and reports
• Expertise with the wider Atlassian product suite (Confluence and various plug ins)
• Strong business acumen with the ability to translate business needs into technical requirements and deliver solutions that drive business value
• Experience spearheading innovative solutions and navigating complex project landscapes
• Ability to align multiple third party organisations with the business’ objectives to deliver to agreed timelines
• Evidence of successful customer/stakeholder executive management, particularly as part of business transformation projects
• Excellent communication, facilitation, consultation, negotiation and reporting/presentation skills, including the ability to influence people at all levels, and foster and maintain collaborative working relationships both within and outside the organisation
• Experience in leading projects and/or delivery of solution planning, development and delivery of projects with multiple streams to budget, time and quality standards
• Leading, managing and motivating multi-disciplinary project delivery team, consisting of both internal and external (contractors and vendors) to achieve outstanding results
• Managing financial and performance analysis with project reporting
• Leading the development and application of best practice project management approaches and methodologies, as well as mentoring less experienced team members

Salary (Rate): 800

City: Sydney

Country: Australia

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: Senior

Industry: Finance