Senior Manager - Development & Projects (Finance Systems)

Senior Manager for Development & Project (Finance Systems) team now available at leading global law firm.

This firm are one of very few law firms who have their own in-house Finance Systems Development team so this is a fantastic opportunity to join a firm that is so invested and technology and innovation.

As the Senior Manager for the Development and & Projects team, you will take a very hands-on role with the team management and their professional development, and will work very closely with the senior leadership team as a valued and respected member, often presenting at meetings with key decisions makers for the firm.

This role would suit someone who has experience managing teams of Developers or technical support staff within Finance staff who is wanting a new challenge in a large global organisation.

Whilst they need someone who has a good understanding on finance systems development, the key part of this role is the team management and leadership skills, as there will be less emphasis on this person getting involved in too much of the day to day as the team are highly skilled in this space.

Specific responsibilities in this role include:

• Manage the development team, building a consistently high performing team whilst developing each individual.
• Implement, participate in and manage effective technical project management.
• Provide effective leadership and direction to development team members when undertaking development and project duties.
• Clearly define roles and responsibilities for all those involved in projects you manage.
• Project management or project team mentoring to ensure successful global deployment of software solutions.
• Technical project management SME for the software release cycle for stock and custom code, including task and resource planning and organising and chairing relevant project meetings.
• Manage project deadlines, embrace creative approaches to overcome obstacles and escalate quickly and effectively when required.
• Managing change effectively whilst making things happen. Influence and persuade the relevant delivery teams to meet project deadlines, whilst resolving any disputes and managing difficult messages sensitively but forcefully.
• Project risk and issues management and escalation.
• Ensure projects follow the Group Finance project management methodologies, standards and processes and work closely with the Finance Programme manager to align on delivery priorities
• Documentation preparation - Review- technical/functional specifications, communications, project plans etc.
• Management of the 3e Development & Controlled Testing environments, ensuring the software versions are consistently applied, the database is refreshed and up to date as necessary and that performance is reviewed to meet the deployment and testing demands.
• Group Finance point of contact for performance test reviews and recommendations.
• Build strong working relationships with other support functions, ensuring that senior counterparts are aware of our service expectations and collaborate to deliver quality solutions.

Experience needed:

• Strong experience in leading, managing and motivating different sized development teams.
• Proven Project Management experience with a very good track record of delivering tech projects on time and to agreed quality standards.
• Project management experience, including strong people and task management skills
• Knowledge and experience of project management methodologies.
• Professional services or financial services background preferred.

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