Migration Project Manager - 12 Month FTC

• Apply best project management practice to our data migration workstream in the Transformation Programme

• Provide leadership to the project team by building and motivating team members to meet project goals, adhering to their responsibilities and project milestones

• Define and agree required level of project resource needed for successful project delivery

• Manage risks and issues, understanding a wider risk context associated with the business and the delivery

• Build a collaborative relationship with 3rd parties to maximise value

• Implement appropriate level of Governance in-line with Transformation Programme standards

Transformation is a large scale and complex programme of work, and already in flight so as a candidate you’ll need to be able to ‘hit the ground running’. This is an exciting and varied role and a great opportunity to play a part in the transformation of the Nucleus platform as we move towards becoming ‘best loved’ in the marketplace.

Key Accountabilities

You’ll spend your time:

• Formulating and updating project plans and maintaining schedules

• Tracking A&D and development build items with out third party supplier

• Reviewing and monitoring progress against project plans to ensure outputs are delivered to time, budget and quality specifications.

• Managing risks, issues, and resources to ensure milestone dates are achieved.

• Reporting project progress in line with stated policies and procedures within the organisation, including ensuring that any requests for information on your workstream from the delivery leads and other senior staff within the organisation are answered in a timely manner.

• Communicating regularly with stakeholders and sponsors.

• Setting and managing stakeholder and 3rd party expectations on timelines and ownership of outputs at various phases.

• Working with our 3rd party partners FNZ to ensure delivery of A&D activities.

• Coordinating activities and tasks among program teams, other internal departments and client or vendor/subcontractor organizations as needed to meet program goals.

• Establishing teams, in consultation with other parts of the organisation, to ensure efficient delivery

• Responsibility for the efficient running of these teams by setting project objectives and working within a matrix management environment.

A bit about you

Your friends might describe you as the ‘purposeful one’. You love taking responsibility and using your leadership skills to drive accurate, timely and positive project results.

You’ll enjoy working within a fast-paced environment that gives you the opportunity to flex your time management responsibilities and your skill for staying calm under pressure. Creative and motivated, you’ll take great pride in your ability to act on your own initiative and remain flexible in the face of changing circumstances and priorities.

You’ll thrive when working as part of a diverse and supportive team, collaborating with your colleagues to share ideas and knowledge, and displaying your knack for relationship building both with your peers and stakeholders.

• Proven working experience in project management delivering both business and technical change initiatives ideally in a Transformation Programme with a bias for data migration

• Experience of Agile and Waterfall delivery practices

• The ability to solve and unblock issues within teams or departments

• The skills to build consensus between organisations or highly independent and diverse stakeholders

• Interpersonal skills to influence and spur change, facilitate, and enhance performance within a cross – functional environment

• Experience of leading project teams, building and maintaining the trust, confidence, commitment and collaboration of others

• Experience in Project Planning, Cutover Planning, gathering requirements, and development of runbook, command-and-control frameworks

Technical Proficiency

• At a minimum data conversion experience in all major domains, preferably Finance data

• Strong understanding of Data Migration Methodologies including cleansing, collection, transformation, loading and validation activities

• Extensively versed in MS Excel, Power BI, MS Project, MS Visio, PowerPoint and other MS Office products for data Analysis, Project Schedules, Business process modelling, Requirements/issues documentation etc.

At Nucleus, we offer a generous blend of benefits for the things that really matter to our people, including a non-contributory pension, bonus, enhanced parental leave, paid time off for emergencies, health and wellbeing initiatives and flexible working options.