EY DPS Project Manager 

India, Kerala, Kochi 

884639924

Information Security Project Manager

Project Manager is responsible for delivering Information Security IT projects to schedule, budget and quality. The role requires technical knowledge of project management inter-related process stages i.e. initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control and close, and the supporting processes e.g. scope, cost, time, issue, risk, resource, communication, stakeholder management. Experience in related processes such as portfolio management, program management, methods and tools and quality assurance is preferred. The Project Manager should have stakeholder relationship management experience to successfully support the project team and project stakeholders, and have expertise recognized and requested by customers.

Your key responsibilities

The Project Manager may work under the guidance of a Senior Project Manager (or Service Delivery Manager) in the following areas:

Project Planning and Control

• Maintain very close visibility into and active control over projects to agreed schedule, budget and scope
• Conduct stage gates at least at the end of plan and before deployment to production

Resource Management

• Demonstrate control over the project resource plan
• Ensure actual work matches the planned effort
• Actively maintain resource requests and allocations

Forecasting and Financial Control

Maintain accurate project financial forecasts

Deliverable Quality

Ensure project deliverables are fit for purpose

Risk and Issue Management

• Proactively recognize risks or issues, and do not wait to respond to them
• Regularly maintain RAID logs so they can be referenced by any stakeholder
• Ensure projects are 100% compliant with EY and Information Security delivery standards

Skills and attributes for success

• Experience with project management methodology, tools and templates (includes project planning, schedule development, scope management and cost management)
• Track record of customer focus, based on openness, trust, and delivering on promises
• IT background with experience across the systems development life cycle with experience in all project phases – plan, initiate, elaborate, design, build, test, implement.
• Strong team working skills across matrixed client, supplier and globally dispersed virtual teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills – must be able to communicate fluently in English both verbally and in writing

To qualify for the role, you must have

• 3 to 5 years in a corporate IT environment
• 3 to 5 years of experience in project management
• 3 to 5 years of experience with Security Technologies

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Project management certification is highly preferred (PMI/CAPM or PMP, PRINCE2)
• Familiarity with ITIL v2 or 3 would be advantageous
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC) certifications or other Information Security related a plus
• Experience in EY IT Infrastructure deployments
• Specific experience in EY Information Security Service Delivery (and specifically IAM domain) highly preferred

What we look for

• Acting with a sense of ownership and urgency
• Assuming personal accountability for success
• Always looking for solutions to getting things done, rather than reasons why they can’t be done