Assurance - Digital Trust - IT Project Manager

Job description / Role

Line of Service
Assurance

Specialism
Assurance

Management Level
Manager

Job Description & Summary
A career in Business Intelligence within our Digital Trust practice, will provide you with the opportunity to help organisations uncover enterprise insights and drive business results using smarter data analytics. We focus on a collection of organisational technology capabilities, including business intelligence, data management, and data assurance that help our clients drive innovation, growth, and change within their organisations in order to keep up with the changing nature of customers and technology. You'll make impactful decisions by mixing mind and machine to leverage data, understand and navigate risk, and help our clients gain a competitive edge.

Creating business intelligence from data requires an understanding of the business, the data, and the technology used to store and analyse that data. Using our Rapid Business Intelligence Solutions, data visualisation and integrated reporting dashboards, we can deliver agile, highly interactive reporting and analytics that help our clients to more effectively run their business and understand what business questions can be answered and how to unlock the answers.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Manager, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

- Develop new skills outside of comfort zone.
- Act to resolve issues which prevent the team working effectively.
- Coach others, recognise their strengths, and encourage them to take ownership of their personal development.
- Analyse complex ideas or proposals and build a range of meaningful recommendations.
- Use multiple sources of information including broader stakeholder views to develop solutions and recommendations.
- Address sub-standard work or work that does not meet firm's/client's expectations.
- Use data and insights to inform conclusions and support decision-making.
- Develop a point of view on key global trends, and how they impact clients.
- Manage a variety of viewpoints to build consensus and create positive outcomes for all parties.
- Simplify complex messages, highlighting and summarising key points.
- Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.
- Technical Project Manager is the lead subject matter expert regarding technology projects and is expected to use his/her practical industry expertise to improve all aspects of project planning and resource management on projects that will be assigned to him/her.

This position is a 1 year contract working on international banking and financial institution engagements, with a competitive compensation package.

Requirements

Candidate Requirements:

- Must have deep technical knowledge of the software development life cycle (SDLC)
- Demonstrable experience in Software Development and other types of Digital Transformation projects. 
- Data Warehouse project management experience is a must.
- Cloud Architecture knowledge/solutioning. Or a fair demonstrable experience of cloud deployments.
- Agile project Management ( using any of the known PM Frameworks) - important
- Extensive knowledge or aptitude of using MS Projects or similar Project Management Tools.
- Experience in implementing BI solutions and/or Data warehouse solutions.
- A good communicator ( the ability to communicate and collaborate with non-technical audience or members of the project ) with complete fluency in written and spoken English.
- Experience working in Financial Services Institution is desirable

Expected Qualifications:

- Either Project Management Professional (PMP) or PRINCE2 Practitioner
- CompTIA Project+ certification

About the Company

At PwC Middle East, we've set out an ambitious purpose and strive to live it everyday: to solve important problems and build trust in society.

We're a community of solvers that come together in unexpected ways to build trust and create sustained outcomes. We solve important problems, support one another as we grow, develop and build fulfilling careers.

PwC provides industry-focused services for public and private clients across Assurance and Audit, Deals, Consulting, Tax and Legal. We draw on our development legacy that brings together the collective experience of over 7,000 people in our region with offices across 12 countries to solve for tomorrow.

We're striving to consistently deliver innovative work that builds trust and delivers sustained outcomes. And we're proud of the strength that comes from all our different backgrounds and experiences and we value everyone's uniqueness. We thrive in uncertainty, operate with integrity and leverage the diverse perspectives of our teams.

If you're looking for a place that fuels your ambition to make a difference, that matches your curiosity with continuous learning opportunities and reimagines ways of working to enable you to lead a more balanced life, then you're a future PwCer.