Total 3 it specialist job vacancies in Business Management / Project / Planning category in The Philippines

Reporting Line

• Senior LMS Engagement Manager

Primary Responsibilities    

• Works with the global training team and business IT team in rolling out global training products across the affiliates
• Assists with the ad-hoc projects from the business IT team
• Collaborates with other teams including external vendors to ensure quick resolution of the user problems
• Provides end to end solution for cases raised by the affiliates
• Provides knowledge and expertise (Subject Matter Expert) about the process and functionality of the business application.
• Trains and gives support to end users of the business application
• Conducts incident evaluation, replication of issue, gather essential information and include checking and trouble-shooting steps when escalating to other teams.
• Prepares weekly and/or monthly reports to Management and/or Stakeholders on summary of application activities, highlights and statistics

Specific Responsibilities   

• Performs the tasks in rolling out global training product in the business application
• Recommends solutions in implementing training products and ad-hoc projects
• Review of ticket life cycle, follow up to end-users or technical team whenever necessary
• Monitoring and tracking of cases for appropriate escalation and follow-up and update end-users
• Keep track of known solutions, establish and develop application knowledge database and use findings to reply to end-users
• Keep track of business operations documentations to ensure clear identification of business issues
• Provides assistance to team member’s questions and problems, and reviews team member’s work for quality and guideline compliance
• Documents resolutions, create work instructions and identify feature improvement on the application or on the process to improve customer satisfaction
• Participates on business application’s meetings and trainings

Octal Philippines Inc. is looking for an experienced and dynamic IT Project Manager to lead our IT project initiatives. The ideal candidate will be responsible for overseeing the planning, execution, and completion of projects within the IT department. This role requires strong leadership skills, the ability to manage multiple tasks, and a proven track record of delivering projects on time and within budget. If you have a passion for technology and a commitment to driving excellence, we want to hear from you!

QUALIFICATIONS:

 Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

 3+ years of experience in IT project management, with a focus on software development projects.

 Proven experience in managing banking-related software projects is a plus.

 Strong understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC), including requirements analysis, development, testing, and deployment.

 Experience with Agile/Scrum project management methodologies.

 Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work closely with both technical teams and banking clients.  Experience using project management tools (e.g., Jira, Microsoft Project, Redmine).

 PMP, PRINCE2, or ScrumMaster certification is a plus.

 Experience with API integration and/or data migration projects is an advantage.

• Lead and manage multiple software development projects for clients, ensuring that all deliverables meet project timelines, quality, and budget.
• Collaborate with business analysts, developers, QA teams, and other stakeholders to define project scope, goals, and deliverables.
• Develop and manage detailed project plans, resource allocation, timelines, risk management, and communication plans.
• Continuously assess and monitor project risks, identifying potential issues early and proactively developing mitigation strategies.
• Maintain continuous alignment of project scope with business objectives and make recommendations for changes where necessary.
• Ensure clear communication with clients, providing regular updates on project status, risks, and issues.
• Coordinate and facilitate client meetings, including requirements gathering, testing updates, and project status reviews.
• Track and monitor project progress and performance metrics.
• Ensure proper adherence to change management processes.
• Ensure that projects follow industry standards and established methodologies

The role is responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining cost controls and/or planning and scheduling functions. The role is expected to have broad knowledge and sufficient experience to analyze and apply technical solutions to challenging project controls issues.

Responsibilities & Duties

Opportunity phase

• Support Go/No Go preparations, forms, and gathering information and process, as directed by the Project Manager.
• Review project controls requirements of RFP/opportunity. Provide or obtain project controls support for proposal deliverables, as appropriate for project complexity.
• Understand proposal pricing approach and support as appropriate. Proficiency with company standard pricing tools and support as required.

Planning phase

• Develop customized Cost/schedule control plans/solutions to provide Project Management and other project team and management with appropriate tools for project cost and schedule control.
• Support PM/Project team/contract administration in managing the contract review process for new contracts, modifications, and job closures. Understand and support or coordinate the insurance verification process as necessary.
• Review contract risk types and deploy methods to identify and develop risk management approaches for projects.
• Manage and oversee financial project issues such as segmentation, work at risk, and revenue recognition during project setup.
• Review scope definition documents and support PM with development of complex Work breakdown structure development (and maintenance during execution), interfacing with Procurement, Engineering, Subcontractors and Finance to support proper job setup for cost and schedule development, progress tracking, risk analysis, client billing.
• Manage the development, updating, and monitoring of schedules and preparing status reports and staffing curves, in alignment with scope of work and resource, including subcontractors and consultants, planned to execute scope.
• Support other Project team/procurement in managing documentation to support procurement of required sub-consultants and vendors
• Develop and review of project cost and revenue baseline, based on above element, on behalf of PM.
• Develop and implement performance measurement and earned value plan and updates during execution. Elevate for review by PM, Project team and other Management staff.
• Understand contractual invoicing requirements. Understand project/organizational and client interfaces. Review invoice support requirements, during execution, with Project Manager.

Execution phase

• Integrate cost and schedule data/baseline with company’s enterprise system, to facilitate Projects financial goals, or oversee this effort.
• Develop key deliverables in preparation for project reviews.
• Review actual costs and commitments, coordinate cost adjustments, and review coding accuracy.
• Identify cost (and schedule as needed) variances, investigate root cause, and develop/execute a correction action plan, as discussed with PM and Project team.
• Lead effort for tracking budget, project costs, labor hours, schedule updates, installed quantities and progress measurements for work to include direct hire and subcontracted work.
• Maintain the planning/scheduling updates, applying engineering, procurement, and construction terminology, concepts, and relationships. Develop and maintain critical path logic networks and bar charts.
• Analyze, evaluate, and forecast current status against an established baseline schedule. Assess the impacts of design or construction changes and schedule slippages. Report schedule status to all levels of project and company management as well as to the Client.
• Accumulate and access historical data, such as performance experience, for use in maintaining a realistic basis for future planning, forecasting, and Estimate at complete development.
• Measure progress and review performance trends. Exposure to progressive performance data and associated concepts and principals.
• Prepare reports, graphs, and charts, to communicate project status.
• Proficiency with company’s financial systems, processes and procedures such as segmentation, work at risk and revenue recognition requirements and processes and be able to align with project status and assist in analyzing and using financial data to identify key project issues.
• May coordinate/review invoices for consistency with contract requirements and rates. May interface with Billing and accounting staff.
• Assist the Project Manager with reporting on accounts receivables and unbilled issues as assigned.
• Support Project team, with the change control management process and gain insight into rational and importance of change events. Support project with pricing and determining schedule impact of change orders.
• Assist PM with support on gathering information to develop trending, forecasting and estimate to complete process. May assist PM with WAR (work at risk) and RAR (Revenue at Risk) forms.
• May provide guidance, direction and specialized assistance to others in the resolution of project controls problems.

Closeout phase

• Review project scope and determine all contractual deliverables have been met, discuss with PM.
• Coordinate with PM/procurement for closeout of sub-agreements
• Support PM with input of final EAC
• Support with coordination of final invoice as directed.