EDF IT (ex-Equity Finance & Collateral Trading IT) is responsible for the delivery and maintenance of technology solutions to the Equity Delta 1 & Financing Trading business- The EDF IT Change Management function takes on full project ownership (from initiation to completion) for all primarily-IT initiatives and contributes business analysis (requirements definition, design, testing, training and implementation support)- This includes a number of strategic projects demanding business transformation, covering all regions and trading applications, as well as smaller-scale incremental change- Closing Date: 15 th February 2010
Job Description
Co-ordination and delivery of principally-technology initiatives- Definition, planning, stakeholder management, communication, resource management, etc-
Requirements
Project definition: · Working with regional and product-owning trading heads to define project scope, objectives- · Solution design, including IT architecture definition- · Co-ordination with, and definition of, EF&CT IT programme- · Working with IT development manager(s) and other stakeholders to prepare project definition, including costs, timeframes and success criteria, for review by EF&CT IT Steering Committee- Project management: · Co-ordination of project contributors, including trading staff, IT development team(s), operations, risk management, finance- · Management of risks, issues, inter-project dependencies and design considerations- · Ownership of business analysis tasks- · Co-ordination of business process definition, risk assessments, approvals- · Project working group management and IT Steering Committee reporting- · Progress and cost tracking and reporting- · Risk and issue identification and resolution or escalation- · Status reporting- · Ownership of training, implementation and post-implementation support- · Project closure- **PLEASE ASK TO SEE ROLE PROFILE FOR EXTENSIVE LIST**
Responsibilities
The requirement of each project determines the assignment of people, with the group therefore needing a range of the following: · Project management versus business analysis skills- · Deep equity finance-specific knowledge versus broad understanding of products and asset classes- · Business versus technical attitude, knowledge and experience- · Organisationally, there is not a strict demarcation of roles between project managers and business analysts; it is a requirement that project managers have business analysis skills and vice versa- However, it is recognised that each candidate's primary skill likely lies with one or the other, and for this reason the two roles have been assigned separate specifications-
The Individual
· Ability to manage diverse project teams with numerous competing demands- · Motivated self starter, able to drive multiple projects and proactively manage change- · Good interpersonal skills, able to work with trading and technical staff from junior to business-leading senior levels- · Good communication skills (written and verbal)- · Free thinking individual demonstrating leadership and innovation, allied to a rigorous approach-
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