Job Description
Job Title: Project Manager
JDR No: JDR-39
Employment type – Regular, Full time
Employment Location – Bangalore (India)/Virtual Work from Home
Employment Entity – Planafin Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Expected travel: 35 - 40 %
Joining time frame – Immediate to 30 days from the release of offer (Only candidates
meeting with this criterion need to apply)
Overview
Planafin is a fast growing, best in class Enterprise performance management (EPM) consulting
company with offices in United Kingdom, India, United Arab Emirates and North America. We
have delivered some of the largest Enterprise planning and performance management
transformational projects in the region with leading global companies. Planafin is purely
focused, committed and passionate to demonstrate progress, measure results, and implement
practical solutions that produce transformational outcomes. Our company provides an
opportunity to work in a collaborative, stimulating, entrepreneurial environment, where
individuals are recognized, appreciated, allowed to move boundaries and take calculated risks
for greater success. We focus on ensuring that our team is constantly trained on cutting edge
platforms, as well as updated on latest domain know how in the space that we focus on.
For more details on Planafin, please visit www.planafin.com
Position Summary
This is a management role and this person will play a critical role in management of delivery,
change management and development of Enterprise planning, Financial consolidation,
reporting solutions leveraging EPM platforms like Anaplan, Pigment, Just Perform ,Jedox, SAP
BPC/SAC and Onestream (planned), that shall be deployed as per agreed customer statement
of work based engagements or as internal Planafin product development comprising of
Planafin’s IP products, functional solution accelerators, project management solutions etc.
In addition to performing a delivery and project management role, as required, this role shall
also have team management of India based consultants attributed to it and will also support the
expansion of Planafin’s MEA, India , Europe and North America EPM practice by assisting in
pre-sales and go to market initiatives.
Key Accountabilities:
Must have 5-8Yr of experience in Project Management role in IT Service Delivery /Consulting having implemented large scale IT projects
Lead and conduct daily stand-up/scrum meeting and monitor the team’s activities and timesheets on daily basis
Single point of contact for project team and responsible for communicating and lead/coordinating with client for all project related discussions and prioritize the requirement within agreed effort and timelines
Participate in and supervise the successful execution of each stage of the project, communicated with the project team members and stakeholders
Determine project roles, assign responsibilities, and deadlines for each team member, provide the necessary leadership and keep teams committed, motivated, and productive throughout the project
Facilitating the development of all elements of the project plans and schedule according to the project brief, i.e. plans for scope, schedule, budget, change management, issues, risk, testing, training, communication
Keep track of project scope and ensuring that the project goals and objectives are delivered on-time and within budget.
Managing proposed changes in scope, schedule or budget with key stakeholders relaying any impact to cost, schedule or scope and providing a recommended course of action. Facilitate change requests to ensure that all parties are informed, and re-baselining of the project plans as required.
Gather project requirements to develop and employ tactical, detail-oriented sprint plans. Detailed identification and scheduling of the project user stories, milestones, inclusive of all sub-activities and tasks.
Document detailed project findings for evaluation, strive for continual improvement.
Perform risk management, continuously assess and monitor project risks. Create and manage mitigation plans to minimize the project risks, ensuring that project team members are actively involved in the identification and where appropriate the ownership of risks, initiating corrective action where necessary
Managing, maintaining, and tracking the overall project plan, controls, budget and work assignments
Track and report project status and performance using appropriate KPIs, metrics, tools, and techniques.
Preparing weekly and monthly status reports by gathering, analyzing and summarizing relevant project information.
Establishing effective project communication plans and ensuring their execution.
Establish and drive effective project communication plans and channels with internal/external project resources, client and ensuring their execution
Coordinating the development of project documentations, user manuals, training materials and other projects documents as needed
Identifying and developing new opportunities with clients.
Managing customer satisfaction and expectation and obtaining customer acceptance of project deliverables and milestones
Conducting post project evaluation and identifying successful and unsuccessful project elements
Holding KPI ownership to ensure project is executed and delivered, as per agreed upon timelines and cost
Key Skills & Qualifications:
Primary Skills/Qualification Secondary Skills
Degree in Computer Science/Mathematics/Commerce/Finance/Accounting or Business equivalent
Professional Certification in EPM, Data Warehousing, Analytics, Business Intelligence
Certification/experience in Agile/scrum project management framework PMP or related certifications in project management
Demonstrated ability to have led customer project management, PMO discussions with customer PMO teams and key sponsors
Project experience working with CXO levels stakeholders of large enterprises
Minimum 3+ end-end ERP/EPM direct customer implementation project management experience. Ex. Oracle EPM, SAP SAC/BPC, OneStream, Workday Adaptive Planning, Anaplan,Justperform, Pigment, Board,Prophix etc ... Basic understanding of on-premises / Cloud Applications
Project experience/knowledge in implementation of - IT Solution in large enterprises, Anaplan, Jedox, SAP BPC/SAC, Etc.,.
Minimum 3+ successful on time and on cost, adherence to scope/ statement of work project management and project deliverable ownership experience, successfully executing and managing a hybrid onsite- offsite delivery model
Prior solution architect/functional business lead experience with important skill of understanding customer requirements and translating to internal team for development, providing quality assurance
Knowledge/Experience across industries FMCG, Manufacturing, Trading/Services, Banking & finance, Insurance, etc.,. In functional areas like Finance, sales & marketing, Supply chain & logistics, Inventory management, Manpower Management Etc.,.
Strong hands on proficiency in creating and managing project management templates and document deliverables, leveraging Microsoft PowerPoint, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project.
MS Visio
Understanding of project documents and deliverables. Collaboration and Negotiation with business and IT stakeholders. Create and deliver project status reports
Project Plan, Schedules, Budget, Scope, Risks. SOW, Design documents, Data/Integration guides and Testing documents
Excellent communication skills - Client communication including ability to articulate pointed reasoning with time bound action expected as outcome. Communications essentially must be personable,
Kick Off calls, Project Milestone tracking and communication.
knowledgeable, and well-articulated. Importantly where it has to be said No’, it has to be said then and there itself.
Steering Co deck, Weekly, Monthly Status reports, MOM's
Reporting and Reportees:
This role shall have EPM consultants (India based) reporting to this person as part of
delivery, project management. On a project (as a project manager), shall have
consultants reporting to this person for the project duration
This role shall report to Program Director as direct manager, with additional dotted line
reporting to Consulting Head and Director – India operations, as maybe the case.