Project Control Officer

Key Accountabilities / Activities:

As a member of the team, you will be involved in a variety of projects. You will be an active participant in all phases of the project life cycle and will be required to work closely with internal and external business partners to ensure that projects are reported and controlled. Our Group is a progressive project delivery group providing project management, project control, business analysis and testing resources to deliver technology solutions for our clients. Our technology initiatives cover a wide variety of business processes and technology platforms, from new products to customer service to operations, from the mainframe to the Internet. You'll be involved in cross-functional project teams in a fast-paced environment and will need to deal effectively with a variety of clients, project team members and vendors.

Purpose of job:

The Project Control Officer works closely with/in support of a team of Project Managers, Business Analysts and Testing Analysts within the project team, providing coordination, communication and control functions in delivery of varying strategies.


Requirements:

  • Working independently, responsible for control and coordination of all projects' plans, taking initiative to identify obvious conflicts. Create, update and maintain project schedules with new and changed work packages and tasks/assignments received from PMs and Team Leaders. Ensure that dependencies and links within and with other schedules are established correctly. Follow-up on outstanding work packages, tasks and their integration into the project schedules.
  • Set up and maintain a project library. Develop and/or maintain an electronic source for all business/technology documents related to the initiatives/projects. Maintain the filing system of all Project related documents. Track and set up deliverable process (sign-off, documentation).
  • Log and control change request. Maintain and track change logs.
  • Monitor and reconcile allocation of resources to project with resource effort actually spent working on project tasks.
  • Coordinate the program level reporting. Reporting formats will be consistent with varying target audiences. Program and Project reporting to be delivered, sometimes under tight deadlines.
  • Responsible for documenting and tracking all risks and issues, action items.
  • Assist in facilitating all status meetings, responsible for coordination, booking, monitoring attendance, distributing materials, taking meeting minutes etc.
  • Facilitate/assist in ensuring all project start up and close off administrative tasks are completed, including filing of project documentation in repository.
  • Manage financial tracking process, monitoring and maintaining records & updating monthly spreadsheets to track and forecast all project expenses, including capital. Monitor, reconcile and process vendor expenses and other invoices. Ensure tracking and measurement to budget and schedule, coordinating the preparation of latest estimates for financial reporting. Prepare monthly management project reporting (financial and other), and reconcile this to monthly financial records, often under tight deadlines.
  • Assist Project Managers, Team Leaders on medium/large projects with the development of new work packages, plans and schedules. Ensure project plan is updated to enable tracking and reporting of project progress.
  • Assist in the development of materials for presentations to various stake-holder groups, including Steering Committee.
  • Provide day to day support for the Project Directors and Managers of the identified teams.

Responsibilities:

  • -Proven knowledge of project management procedures.
  • -Strong interpersonal skills.
  • -Able to work independently with minimal supervision.
  • -Proven relationship and team building skills.
  • -Excellent project coordination skills.
  • -Strong organization, follow-up and priority setting skills.
  • -Financial management skills.
  • -Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • -Proven computer skills, MS Office Suite, MS Project.

Skills:

  • Microsoft Project
  • Agile/Adaptable
  • Analytic/Systematic Thinking
  • Confident
  • Teamwork & Partnering
  • Project Management
  • Communication
  • Building Trust

How to apply for this position:

  • Please forward your resume in text format to adnans AT above domain
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