Implementation Manager I 6 months contract plus potential extensions

Are you an experienced Implementation Manager looking for your next challenge? We have an incredible opportunity for you to join a leading financial institution in Australia, known for its strategic growth and commitment to excellence in personal banking.

As part of a major acquisition, this role will involve leading and coordinating resources to deliver small to medium-sized projects with medium to high complexity. Your responsibilities will include:

• Project Integration Management: Ensure that project planning, execution and control are properly integrated.
• Project Execution: Manage implementation of the solution; Monitor scope, resource, schedule and financials to ensure delivery of change within agreed time and budget constraints.
• Project Time Management: Develop and maintain project resource and work plans. Monitor project plans to reflect project progress, change and issues resolutions.
• Project Quality Management: Monitor the implementation, measurement and maintenance of project quality and control processes and standards to satisfy stakeholder expectations.
• Project Risk Management: Project level risk and issue management and resolution including escalation as required. Manage overall risk and issue assessment, planning and impact analysis for the project; Produce project risk status reports.
• Vendor Management: Build effective and efficient relationships to define and implement agreed solution.
• Project Acceptance: Gain and secure participation in testing according to the project plan. Conduct post implementation/verification reviews. Gain acceptance of deliverables into production

Key Competencies:

• Experience with both waterfall and Agile project delivery methodologies.
• Looking for candidates with Advanced Microsoft skills due to scheduling aspect
• Candidates with deployment background or environments background
• Experience working in complex corporate / program environments.
• Managing small or medium projects (up to $1m) of low to medium complexity or managing a stream within a larger project or program.
• Banking and financial services experience, particularly in wealth management and superannuation.

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