Senior Project Portfolio Manager

Founded in 1856, Banque Internationale à Luxembourg (BIL) is the oldest multi-business bank in the Grand Duchy. It has always played an active role in the main stages of development of the Luxembourg economy. It currently operates in retail, private and corporate banking, as well as on financial markets. Employing more than 2,000 people, BIL is present in the financial centres of Luxembourg, Switzerland and China.

**RESPONSABILITÉS**

As a member of the Bank Project Portfolio Management Team, you will manage one or more portfolios of projects. This ranges the entire lifecycle from the project inflow, business case formulation, monitoring of its implementation and a follow-up of benefits realisation post implementation. You will strongly liaise with and act as a focal point for a wide variety of stakeholders such as project requestors, Compliance/Regulatory Affairs, the Delivery organisation, Finance, Strategy and ExCo members to guarantee up-to-date and qualitative Portfolio Management processes and deliverables (reporting).

**Main Duties**:

- Drive the Inflow process of project ideas through the existing governance process
- Pro-active follow-up of the project ideas pipeline in respect of the existing intake process while ensuring the organization of qualification sessions and providing a sound scoring of new project ideas based on Portfolio parameters. This may include taking the lead on studies and/or coordinating the estimation.
- Ensure the continuity by monitoring the subsequent implementation projects and their benefits realization once project has been delivered
- Partnering closely with business and strategy partners to analyze new projects and readiness for governance decisions and providing transparency of portfolio investments
- Monitoring the Program/Project Portfolio, tracking its evolution and anticipating risks and issues for mitigation and resolution
- Identifying project/program interdependencies and ensuring a close follow-up to enable efficient and effective delivery
- Ensuring the follow-up of Portfolio, Program and Project budget/expenditure in liaison with the Finance Department
- Performing scenario analysis to quantify the impact of decisions on projects/programs on the overall Portfolio
- Monitoring the change capacity (availability), its allocation and proposing preventive/corrective actions on capacity issues
- Producing reports on the status of Project Idea and Program/Project Portfolios and providing qualitative and quantitative assessments related to these statuses. Distribution of these reports to the different Governance bodies and other stakeholders within the bank for informed decisions and governance.
- Managing portfolio management artifacts, decisions, communications, metrics, and reporting.
- Contribute to the operational set-up of the bank wide project portfolio function and help implement a business case culture
- Contribute to the continuous improvement Portfolio Management processes and deliverables

**COMPÉTENCES REQUISES**

**Profile**:

- 10+ years’ experience working or consulting in at least one of the following fields of expertise, largely gained in the financial services environment: IT, Delivery, Finance and/or Strategy
- Experience with assessment and delivery of regulatory projects
- Ideally track record in delivery of large scale IT delivery projects
- Show in depth knowledge of standard banking processes
- Demonstrable project portfolio management skills and experience (project intake, resource demand planning, budget management) and strong project management skills
- A confident, resilient and self-motivated strong team player with focus on collaboration and able to cope with multiple deadlines and changing scopes/priorities
- Strong analysis, problem resolution, judgment and decision-making skills as well as financial acumen
- Demonstrated skill running effective meetings and getting buy-in and participation from stakeholders at all levels of the organisation (incl. executive leaders)
- Excellent interpersonal and communication (oral and written) skills at all levels. Ability to communicate succinctly
- Ability to produce and present project portfolio reports, proposals and other related portfolio information in a succinct manner and adapted to the target audience
- Fluent (reading, writing, speaking) in English and French, any other language constituting an advantage

**Specific Skills and competencies**:

- A certification in one of the following disciplines is a plus: Project/Programme Management (Prince 2, Agile PM, PMP, MSP, etc.), Project Portfolio Management (MoP, P3M3, MoV) and/or PMO (P3O)
- Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, MS Project), MS SharePoint proficient; Experience with Clarity or any another Project & Portfolio Management tool is a plus
- Strong knowledge/know-how of Core Banking Systems in general and Temenos T24 in particular considered an advantage
- Business Case development and writing
- Benefits managem