About the role
Key Accountabilities and main responsibilities Strategic Focus
- Developing and implementing a project schedule to meet project objectives within an agreed time frame.
- Gain agreement to and monitoring of project schedules.
- Ensure change control mechanisms are put in place to manage project schedules.
- Defining project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
- Evaluating trade-offs between project size and complexity, cost, urgency, risk, and stakeholder value.
- Facilitating informed engagement and sound decision making grounded in facts.
- Proactively manages project budget variance, scope and change requests. Enforces Link project governance & compliance, Delegation of Authority and the consistent application of Link's project methodology.
- Determining, monitoring, analysing and controlling project costs and outcomes to ensure they meet financial objectives.
- Seek to control costs by using cost management techniques/methods coupled with change control
- Demonstrating appropriate ways of working.
- Build strong relationships and actively collaborate across functions to support the achievement of objectives.
- Role model transparent and trustworthy communication – Display effective communication concepts, tools and techniques, accurately interpret ideas, information and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviours.
- Implementing effective governance for project tracking and reporting to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, dissemination, storage, tracking reports and financial information.
- Creating risk mitigation strategies to anticipate, assess and resolve project risks as they are encountered.
- Promoting a culture of risk and compliance awareness.
- Implementing quality assurance processes that drive the continuous improvement of quality.
- Determine and achieve quality objectives, standards and levels to be included in the project plan.
Experience & Personal Attributes Experience
- 10+ years’ experience in successful project management.
- 4+ years’ experience in project management within financial services, preferably with experience in superannuation and/or risk insurance knowledge.
- Preferred experience in Financial Services preferably with experience in Capital Markets, Superannuation and/or risk insurance knowledge.
- Strong PM capabilities in time, cost, scope, quality reporting and governance.
- Exceptional leadership skills and capability - Enthusiastic, engaging and inspiring.
- Commercially savvy.
- Strong experience in management of risk.
- Ability to lead multiple teams across diverse platforms
- Excellent organisational skills - Can quickly and effectively mobilise both time and resources (clients and project team members) to get things done
- Great stakeholder management skills including regular up-to date and accurate written and verbal updates to key stakeholders.
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with colleagues and clients at all levels
- Strategic thinker with a pragmatic, execution focused mindset
- High emotional intelligence and cultural awareness in dealing with global teams
- Self-driven, adaptable, and able to work with ambiguity
- Strong attention to detail while maintaining a big picture view
- Comfortable balancing multiple responsibilities and shifting priorities