Project Manager/ Jira Administrator

Project Manager/ Jira Administrator

Sydney

12-month initial contract with potential extension

Large scale transformation project

This leading player in the financial industry is driving innovative solutions and delivering exceptional results across their sector. They are committed to transforming the finance functions of our clients through technologies and cutting-edge business strategies.

The Role: In this new pivotal position you will play a key role in delivering, coordinating, and monitoring Corporate Security Projects to deliver security solutions and uplift on time and within budget, which is required for our Risk priorities and aligns to our purpose.

Responsibilities and duties:  

• Monitoring and controlling the project delivery activities to keep on track of the project plan and/or delivery of commitments that have been made. This role frequently delivers via a hybrid methodology, combining both traditional and agile methodologies for delivery, so a knowledge of both delivery methodologies is required.
• Delivering to agreed timeframes as directed by the Project Manager. Providing support to the Senior PM by raising risks, issues and constraints early, and identifying dependencies, assumptions that may impact delivery.
• Providing support to the Senior Project Manager with any coordinating project activities that are required to help keep the project on track
• Running Scrum Ceremonies to ensure they occur effectively, eg Stand-Ups, Sprint Planning & Retros, Showcases. Taking ownership of obstacles and blockers, protecting sprint commitments and goals, use of continuous improvement techniques to remove bottlenecks in the delivery process.
• Tracking & reporting of Sprints goals and achievements, Epic and Milestone via JIRA Dashboards
• Manage dependencies within the project team, with BAU teams and other projects or program ensuring alignment and visibility across all stakeholders
• Developing and reporting the resourcing plan that supports the project delivery. Identifies upcoming shortfalls in either resources or demand for resources, to address risk with resourcing shortfalls and raise this to the Senior Project Manager
• Develop and manage project financials via traditional methods for governance and reporting back to the Senior Project Manager, to enable a portfolio view which gets tracked at executive level.

Skill and experience required for the role:

• Experience of project management and delivery utilising both traditional and agile methods. This role would suit someone who is currently a Delivery Manager or Project Manager, with a desire to develop into a Senior Project Manager role.
• Able to work unaided and focus on delivering outcomes as agreed by the plan provided by the Senior Project Manager.
• Good experience in Agile methods including knowledge of SAFe, and SCRUM and applying agile ceremonies in an IT infrastructure environment.
• Proven experience in identifying, owning and managing risks and issues including mitigation and remediation throughout the life of the project.
• Problem solving and project management experience working with multi-disciplinary teams and in a matrix management structure.
• Experience in cyber security, technology, or risk projects. Experience of delivery and implementation in the identity management and privileged access management projects beneficial.
• Excellent knowledge and experience working within an agile framework and having knowledge of core agile ceremonies using Jira.
• Excellent knowledge and hands on experience working with JIRA, confluence and SharePoint

How to Apply: Please submit your resume and a cover letter outlining your experience and how you meet the selection criteria to Include any relevant project examples demonstrating your expertise in Projects and Jira