Project Manager

at  DEMICA

In your new role as a Project Manager at Demica, you will be responsible for ensuring the accurate, timely, and on-budget delivery of Demica’s client projects. You will be working primarily with on implementations driven by client acquisition for both our Corporate and Bank Platform clients.
You will be a great fit for our Project Management Team if you are a hands-on Project Manager who has experience project managing SaaS implementations. You will have strong communication & governance skills and will be a great facilitator, acting the glue for both the internal teams at Demica and key project teams within our clients

What you’ll do

• Take overall accountability for the accurate, timely, and on-budget delivery of assigned client onboardings and projects, acting as the key client-facing liaison from completion of the sales process through to Go-Live and Hypercare
• Proactively track, manage, and report on project timelines, risks, resource usage, and budget throughout the project lifecycle
• Ensure project plans, RAID logs, deliverables trackers, and status boards are created, updated, and maintained throughout the project lifecycle
• Own and manage all project related documentation and artefacts, ensuring that Demica’s standards are followed, and information can be easily found
• Own and chair internal & external project meetings and steering committees
• Proactively identify and highlight delivery concerns to internal and external stakeholders to drive issues to resolution, ensuring successful end-to-end project deliveries
• Build a strong-cross functional support network across the business, particularly with Technology, Product, and Origination functions, and leverage these relationships to quickly understand, analyse, and resolve delivery issues
• Lead project retrospective processes and present outcomes from these retrospectives to Demica’s executive team
• Ensure that lessons identified during project retrospectives are captured and actioned to drive continuous improvement
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of Demica’s project management framework, processes, and tools
• Conduct on-going professional development to stay abreast of best practices and trends within project management, and share knowledge within the team

Who you are

• 3+ years of Project Management experience, ideally within a SaaS business or the broader technology sector.
• Proven client-facing project management skills to influence and impact both internal & external stakeholders, while meeting client deadlines
• Previous experience with common software delivery methodologies – including Waterfall & Agile
• Experience on a variety of different software delivery projects with a good understanding of the delivery lifecycle including Initiation, Scoping, Development, SIT, UAT, Training, and Go-Live through to post-implementation support
• Able to independently lead project teams to develop solutions to novel issues, supporting self-sufficiency in dealing with delivery challenges
• Good awareness of fundamental technical concepts such as cloud computing, containerisation, APIs, SFTP, etc.

About Demica
We are a market-leading fintech, powering the trade finance programmes of the world’s largest trade banks and corporations.
Demica’s proposition is simple: our intuitive, cloud-based platform enables financial institutions and corporates to automate and scale their working capital solutions.

Today, we have over US$27bn of Assets under Administration (AUA)* on our platform, across the full spectrum of working capital products. Funded by a diverse range of banks and institutional investors, these programmes enable companies to strengthen their supply chains and redeploy capital to drive growth.

• Assets under Administration is the total value of the receivables on the Demica platform across receivables and payables programmes as at 31st December 2022.

• Take overall accountability for the accurate, timely, and on-budget delivery of assigned client onboardings and projects, acting as the key client-facing liaison from completion of the sales process through to Go-Live and Hypercare
• Proactively track, manage, and report on project timelines, risks, resource usage, and budget throughout the project lifecycle
• Ensure project plans, RAID logs, deliverables trackers, and status boards are created, updated, and maintained throughout the project lifecycle
• Own and manage all project related documentation and artefacts, ensuring that Demica’s standards are followed, and information can be easily found
• Own and chair internal & external project meetings and steering committees
• Proactively identify and highlight delivery concerns to internal and external stakeholders to drive issues to resolution, ensuring successful end-to-end project deliveries
• Build a strong-cross functional support network across the business, particularly with Technology, Product, and Origination functions, and leverage these relationships to quickly understand, analyse, and resolve delivery issues
• Lead project retrospective processes and present outcomes from these retrospectives to Demica’s executive team
• Ensure that lessons identified during project retrospectives are captured and actioned to drive continuous improvement
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of Demica’s project management framework, processes, and tools
• Conduct on-going professional development to stay abreast of best practices and trends within project management, and share knowledge within the tea