Senior IT Project Manager - FinTech

About us
flatexDEGIRO is the leading and fastest-growing European online broker, executing millions of transactions annually. Over 2 million customers in 18 countries use our platform, offering a wide range of market-leading features and benefits at competitive pricing, based on a modern, in-house state-of-the-art technology. With offices in Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, and Bulgaria, our presence is truly European!
Our passion for investing and information technology has been the driving force of our success since day one. Our vision: a world in which investing is fully realized and accessible to everyone.
The Senior IT Project Manager is a seasoned IT professional with sharp business acumen, superb people management skills and extensive experience of orchestrating challenging IT projects.
Your role
• Develop effective communications for affected stakeholders to ensure all parties are informed of project progress, issues and status against agreed project plan and business KPI’s.
• Facilitate discussions within the organization to clarify the project scope challenges and project approach of IT initiatives. Work closely together with business stakeholders, IT teams and product development to help co-innovate the best product solution
• Drive the projects from the initiation until closure including undertaking ultimate responsibility for the project success:
o scope and WBS definition
o planning of project phases and milestones
o create project plan
o task assignment
o project monitoring and control
o change management
o risk and issue management
o resource assignment
o project estimates and delivery forecasting
o dependency management
o lessons learned
o metric collection and reporting
• Build cohesion within the teams and motivate teams to produce quality project deliverables
• Interfaces with various organizational departments to collect project related information and to build consensus regarding project direction, resourcing, and timeline.
• Resolve conflicts and keep the teams focused and motivated. Suggest creative solutions to resolve impediments.
Qualifications
• Minimum of 7 years of successful project management experience
• Project management experience in the software development projects of 10+ members size
• Experience in transformation and post-merger project and program assignments
• Prior banking or FinTech experience, as well as experience in complex IT architectural, infrastructure or support transformation projects is a strong advantage
• Excellent people management, negotiations as well as verbal and communication skills that can adapt to various audiences including executives and customers
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to successfully troubleshoot and problem solve
• Full SDLC exposure and prior experience in Agile environment would be considered as an advantage
• Result driven person willing to take on challenges in a very intense and dynamic environment, create structure and understanding to help bring new IT solutions to life
• PMP or similar project management certification
• Proven success working in multi-cultural teams cross-functionally and bringing together diverse team members and perspectives to find solutions
• Willingness to travel depending on the project (30%). Business teams and stakeholders are based in Bulgarian, Dutch and German offices
What we offer
• Attractive salary;
• Performance-based bonus;
• Personal development focus and support;
• Career development opportunities in a fast-growing FinTech company, education and training opportunities;
• Home-office policy / hybrid model of work;
• Premium healthcare package for the employee and kids;
• MultiSport card for access to many different sport facilities;
• 30 paid leave days;
• Fresh fruits in the office every day;
• A modern and friendly work environment in a top location (Millennium Center).