Senior Project Manager, Operational Readiness

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The ASX team brings together talented people from a diverse range of disciplines.

We run critical market infrastructure, with 1 in 3 people employed within technology. Yet we have a unique complexity of roles across a range of disciplines such as operations, program delivery, financial products, investor engagement, risk and compliance.

We're proud of the diversity of our organisation and the culture of inclusion that all our people help to build every day. Our employee-led groups are known for celebrating cultural and religious events, championing LGBTIQ+ inclusion (recently achieving AWEI Bronze), inspiring giving and volunteering, promoting gender equality, and wellbeing. We are an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality (WGEA) and a member of the Champions of Change Coalition for the advancement of gender equality in Australia.

Key Purpose Of The Role
The Senior Project Manager for Operational Readiness in the CHESS project is responsible for leading delivery activities such as UAT planning, operational testing oversight, procedure reviews, business resiliency initiatives, and Product Incremental planning. The role requires close collaboration across the project to ensure close alignment and governance across workstreams.

Your Responsibilities

• Leads and delivers program/project experience specialising in delivery of operational initiatives, to actively plan and manage the end-to-end delivery of complex workstreams, initiatives and projects.
• Lead development and implement both predictive and adaptive project management plans to ensure the success of the delivery.
• Lead the planning, execution, and monitoring of Operational UAT and readiness activities to ensure a smooth transition to operational support of the new Clearing and Settlement system.
• Manage the delivery of required operational deliverables, including oversight and alignment across the project and necessary change management activities to ensure smooth project release and transition to BAU and the target operating model.
• Lead project workstream budgets and ongoing financial forecasts, risk, issue, resource planning and reporting.
• Active contributor to the program/project governance (including strategic guidance group, joint steering committees and working groups) and interface with portfolio governance groups, vendors, delivery managers and other internal stakeholders with executive level standards of language.
• Prepare project updates for Operational Readiness, utilising program/project performance metrics and reporting for Board, C-Suite and Regulatory audiences.
• Use your leadership and soft skills to drive strong engagement of a broad set of stakeholders, develop high-performing cross-functional teams and achieve a 'one team' culture that empowers and embeds accountability.
• Being an active member of the PM Community of Practice (CoP).

Must Have Skills

• Successfully delivered large complex financial projects initiatives spanning technology and business, with interdependencies across other projects/delivery teams.
• Successfully driven solutions and accountability across teams in a hybrid/agile environment and across multiple key vendors.
• Proven strong communication, facilitation, influencing and negotiation skills that show you are able to collaborate and build trusted relationships with stakeholders and vendors across all levels.
• Demonstrated excellent written and verbal communication skills with both individuals and executive level steering groups.
• Worked both independently and as part of a team, with effective problem-solving skills and a good eye for detail.
• Demonstrated self-awareness, emotional intelligence and a willingness to continuously improve both yourself and your teams

Nice To Have

• Tertiary education or other relevant industry certification.
• Experience managing the delivery of regulatory model accreditation projects.
• Be comfortable working within a matrix structure.
• Worked on Agile, Lean and Waterfall projects.
• Experience working with Business Operations
• Prior test management experience

We make hiring decisions based on your skills, capabilities and experience, and how you'll help us to live our values. We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet all the criteria of this role. If you need any adjustments during the application or interview process to help you present your best self, please let us know.

At ASX Group, our diverse workforce is essential to build and maintain a fair and dynamic marketplace. We support flexible working and offer hybrid working options. Even if our roles are advertised as full-time, we encourage you to apply if you are interested in part-time or other flexible working arrangements.

We will arrange for successful candidates to have background checks, including reference and police checks completed as part of the on-boarding process.