IT Senior Project Manager

2023-01-10 | po-021293

Company description

One of the biggest consulting firms in the world provides Assurance, Consulting, Tax, Strategy & Transactions and with presence in more than 150 countries.

Responsibilities

1. Ensuring consistency with global strategy

2. Planning global systems deployment in Japan(preventing duplication of IT-related initiatives)

3. Final responsibility for strategy and planning for IT related Japan application

4. Cooperation with internal/external stakeholders

5. Business initiated projet proposal

6. Clarification of global tool, business case preparation

7. Business requirement gathering

8. Project Planning (Scoping, Scheduling and Budgeting)

9. Facilitate execution, testing and rollout

10. Monitors and manages project baseline to ensure activities are occurring as planned - scope, budget and schedule

11. Proactively identify risks and issues on projects - develop risk management and issues management plans

12. Identifies potential points of contention for missed deliverables; creates and implements strategy to mitigate shortfalls in timeline and budget

13. Anticipates problems before they occur; defines the problem or risk; identifies possible causes; works with business and IT to identify solutions; selects and implements most appropriate solution

14. Analytical skills and problem solving skills needed to manage multiple factors on a project simultaneously

15. Demonstrate business analytics to manage and meet sponsor and customer needs

16. Execute post release verification and closure reporting

Requirements

1. A degree in Computer Science or a related discipline; or equivalent work experience

2. 12 + years in a corporate IT environment

3. 5 years or more of experience managing projects as project manager

4. Other relevant experience in a related technical field (application development, ・deployment/implementation/transition or IT infrastructure)

5. Experience working with off-shore teams

6. Experience working on a virtual/global team

7. Strong team-working skills across Japanese client, local supplier and geographically dispersed IT virtual teams.

8. Proven experience managing low to moderately complex IT projects

9. Higly motivated professional with global mindset, to work with multi national team

10. Strong negotiation/coordination required

11. IT background with experience across the systems development experience in project phases – plan, initiate, elaborate, design, build, test, implement.

12. Knowledge and use of industry-standard project methods, tools and techniques(PMP Required)

13. Experience with status reporting, task oriented, tracking, folowing the process

14. Who can make decision, knowing where to escalate project risk and issues

15. Strong team working skills across enduser, local supplier and geographically dispersed it virtual teams

16. Strong communication and interpersonal skills (includes negotiation) and Organizational skills

17. Excellent written and verbal communication skills – must be able to communicate fluently in Japanese both verbally and in writing

18. Able to communicate fluently in English both verbally and in writing would be an advantage.

19. Independently delivers initiatives/projects, operate with minimal supervision

20. Direct supervision provided by a Service Delivery Manager/APAC Area Team Leader; frequency on a weekly or as needed basis

21. Project manager leads project teams consisting of cross functional, global, and virtual groups; supervises staff; assigns responsibility to members; monitors progress

22. A relevant project management qualification (PMP)

23. Familiarity with ITIL v2, v3 is advantageous