T&DS - Senior IT Project Manager - Immediate Availability

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About Technology & digital solutions

The Technology & digital solutions (T&DS) is leading Forvis Mazars digital transformation. We aim at providing Forvis Mazars professionals with a seamless digital experience allowing greater collaboration worldwide in a safe environment. As a result, they’ll be empowered to deliver more value to clients every day.  

To reach these goals, T&DS transformation programme aims at consolidating the IT operations from a multi-local model spread across 100+ countries into a global model. This includes the infrastructure and the operating model needed to support the business, people and clients now and in the future. 

The success of this change relies on the great expertise and relentless engagement of every member of the team. This is a great moment to join the Technology & digital solutions organisation and be part of the delivery of this major transformation over the coming years!

The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for a range of different IT-related projects.

They will be in charge of the entire life cycle of this project, from the initial design phase through to delivery, ensuring that deadlines, budgets and quality requirements are met. To achieve this, Senior Project Manager will work with a multidisciplinary international T&DS team as well as a panel of partners and subcontractors.

Key responsibilities of the role:

• Project Planning: Define project scope, objectives, budget and deliverables. Develop detailed project plans, including but not limited to key activities, tasks, timelines and resource allocation.
• Project Leadership: Ensure the project deliverables are satisfied, monitoring progress.
• Communication: Manage clear and effective open communication channels with the project, sponsor, stakeholders, and senior leadership. Provide regular project status updates and reports.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure that project deliverables meet quality standards and user requirement specifications. Work with Finance to ensure budget follow up and control.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure timely decision making, effective buy in for requirements definition, manage risks and issue resolution / escalation.
• Vendors management: Lead the advisory resources on defining the requirements for the RFP. Manage calls for tenders. Represent Forvis Mazars towards providers transition management. Coordinate with ITSM team for a synchronised delivery of ITSM and transition of services to the external provider.

• A minimum of 10-year experience as a Project Manager, with a successful track record of managing complex and transversal IT projects from initiation to completion in international environment
• PM certification (PMP, …) and knowledge of IT services excellence (ITIL)
• Flexibility for a project management in a waterfall, agile mode or hybrid
• Expertise in external providers management for a project integration / delivery
• Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities and work in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent problem-solving and decision-making abilities
• Fluent in English and French
• International travel 15-20%.

Hybrid work 50%