Senior Project Manager

Overview

The role of Senior Project Manager is to lead and inspire our delivery teams to achieve exceptional customer outcomes. You will form relationships with key stakeholders, provide great decision making and effectively lead a delivery team. This role involves planning, directing and leading the development and implementation of projects to satisfy business strategies and objectives

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.

Operational Management

• 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

People Leadership

• 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.

Governance & Risk

• 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.

The above list of key accountabilities is not an exhaustive list and may change from time-to-time based on business needs.

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

Personal Attributes

• 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

MUFG Pension & Market Services is a global, digitally enabled business that empowers a brighter future by connecting millions of people with their assets – safely, securely and responsibly.

Through our two businesses MUFG Retirement Solutions and MUFG Corporate Markets, we partner with a diversified portfolio of global clients to provide robust, efficient and scalable services, purpose-built solutions and modern technology platforms that deliver world class outcomes and experiences.

A member of MUFG, a global financial group, we help manage regulatory complexity, improve data management and connect people with their assets, through exceptional user experience that leverages the expertise of our people combined with scalable technology, digital connectivity and data insights.

Our MUFG Retirement Solutions division combines its proprietary technology, process and people to deliver a comprehensive financial data solution to its superannuation clients. We support clients across all superannuation fund sectors including government, industry, retail and corporate.

By accompanying our core member and employer administration with a full range of value-added services, we offer the most comprehensive superannuation administration solution on the market. The scale, adaptability and ease of use of our proprietary systems, in conjunction with our integrated analytics offering, allow us to innovate and grow with the needs of our clients.

MUFG Pension & Market Services is building a dynamic, client focused, caring and inclusive culture that is built on the foundations of an entrepreneurial spirit, effective risk management, empathy and trust, and underpinned by its core values.

We are an inclusive employer whose people work collaboratively. We encourage, support and value the various talents and perspectives of our people and promote a flexible and blended work environment where our people can thrive and their wellbeing is supported. We know that diversity drives better client outcomes, continuous improvement, and growth. Be part of the MUFG Pension & Market Services journey and together we will achieve our full potential.

We treat all individuals fairly and equitably and do not discriminate on the basis of diverse characteristics including, but not limited to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity, cultural background, physical abilities/disabilities, religious or political belief, marital or family status or carers responsibilities.

Candidates must have the relevant work rights to be considered for an opportunity at MUFG Pension & Market Services. Successful applicants will be required to complete background screening prior to commencement of employment.