Senior Project Manager - Lending

Job Description

In this critical role, you will collaborate and partner with stakeholders to deliver large and complex projects. You will establish and manage scope, schedule, financials, risks, quality and resources across multiple interdependent projects to ensure their completion to agreed quality, schedules, scopes and budgets. This is a senior role across our Project Management function so you will lead the implementation and embedding of Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO) frameworks by sharing and cascading information and mentoring other members of your team.

Your success in this role will hinge on your ability to develop strong stakeholder relationships whilst directing cross functional project teams to deliver against realistic and robust project schedules.

Specifically, you will:

• Follow Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO) frameworks relating to the preparation of core project artefacts
• Collaborate with the project team and business stakeholders to ensure tasks are completed on time and to the right quality
• Raise and manage all project risks and issues, ensuring appropriate mitigation and controls are in place
• Maintain regular engagement with the business owner and executive sponsor on project progress, blockers
• Maintain regular project working groups or forums to keep the project team and stakeholders up -to-date on project progress, risks and issues
• Develop and maintain strong and close working relationships with operational and support colleagues to facilitate effective resource allocation and risk/issue mitigation and resolution
• Manage the project financials within approved budgets, ensuring accurate forecast and actual spend is captured
• Provide mentoring, support, guidance and assistance to junior or new members to the team
• Share project updates to the broader project delivery and EPMO team
• Ensure successful project closure, handover and business adoption at the completion of project activities

About you

You are a well-experienced and collaborative Senior Project Manager delivering lending products. You have a proven track record of successfully delivering multiple complex projects and associated interdependencies using Agile, Waterfall or hybrid mythologies within a dynamic and rapidly changing environment. Over your career you have had significant experience in the Financial Services Industry and experience in large Integrations.

Specifically we seek:

• Previous experience as a Scrum Master would be advantageous
• Significant experience in project implementation including project schedules, resource allocation, status reporting, risk and issue management and project budgets
• Experience managing end-to-end project life cycle process from project identification and scoping through development of business cases and project plans to executing and closing projects
• Proven capacity to develop and implement large, complex strategic initiatives, including the capability to plan, manage change, improve performance and manage large project
• Experience successfully engaging, collaborating and influencing key stakeholders and customers

Who are we?

It's an exciting time to join our organisation! On 1 March 2023, two of Australia's most successful member-owned banking organisations merged, to form Heritage and People's Choice - Australia's leading mutual banking organisation and a genuine, member-owned alternative to the major banks.

We exist to create a better future for our members and the communities in which they live.

We are 100% member owned, with approximately 720,000 members and 1,900 employees. We have dual head offices in Adelaide and Toowoomba, and 95 branches across South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and the Northern Territory, trading under two brands, Heritage Bank and People's Choice.

When you come to work at Heritage and People's Choice, you'll be joining a team of inclusive, friendly, and motivated employees who value making a difference every day for our members, community, and the planet. We are committed to creating an outstanding working environment where you feel supported, can continue to develop and are proud advocates of our members and our business.

Benefits of working for us

We believe the little extras can make a big difference in supporting your success. That's why we offer great incentives and benefits including:

Extensive range of financial and lifestyle benefits, including (but not limited to):

• paid parental leave and special leave provisions

• flexibility and hybrid working arrangements

• employee banking benefits and discounted insurances

• Work from anywhere philosophy with the flexibility to work from home or in the office

• Career development opportunities, and ongoing training, coaching and support

• A dedicated Employee Assistance Program for you and your family to access in times of need

• Paid volunteering days and access to a diverse range of community and charitable initiatives

If you like what you've read and we sound like a good fit, we'd love to hear from you - click on the apply button now.

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We are committed to diversity and inclusion and support candidate requests for adjustments to accommodate disability, illness or injury, to enable everyone to equitably participate in our selection process.