Senior Project Manager

Location: Sydney (Australia)

Ready to embark on an exhilarating career journey? Join our diverse team and ignite your potential in a growing, innovative environment! Inclusion is the beating heart of Alfa so whoever you are, you can show up as your best self every day - be that from home, from our office, or a little bit of both. We are a diverse group of dedicated individuals, working with some of the biggest names in our industries to support them through major transformational change; all we are missing is you.

Alfa is looking to recruit a Project Manager / Senior Project Manager to join our team.

Key responsibilities

You will lead a team of Alfa consultants supporting a client implementation of Alfa Systems. You will be accountable for the successful completion of Alfa deliverables within the required timescales of the overall program, and you will have responsibility for supervising and supporting members of your team. You will work closely with the client, your team, and the broader Alfa company to ensure success.

The Project Manager will

Lead a workstream within a larger implementation project, reporting into the Senior Project Manager

Act as the overall Alfa lead for a smaller active implementation, or a customer already live with Alfa Systems upgrading to a newer version, reporting into the Client Account Director

The Senior Project Manager will

Act as the overall Alfa lead for a larger and more complex implementation of Alfa Systems, overseeing multiple work-streams and teams, and reporting into the Client Account Director

Both roles will include the following responsibilities

• Manage Alfa deliverables and lead the Alfa project team within a broader enterprise software implementation program, including:
• Working with the customer to plan the program, ensuring delivery methodologies are applied in a way that works for the customer’s needs
• Tracking progress of Alfa deliverables against the plan, monitoring and managing scope, budget and timeline
• Communicating project status internally and to the customer, proactively taking course-correcting actions when necessary
• Working closely with the customer and software engineering teams to ensure new Alfa Systems features are delivered within the required timescales of the broader program
• Managing risks, issues & dependencies; creating and actioning mitigation plans

Manage resources, including

• Estimating resourcing required to ensure successful completion of deliverables within required timescales
• Requesting sufficient and appropriate resources to support customer needs
• Supporting, developing & evaluating team members
• Building and maintaining an engaged and motivated team, prioritizing a healthy work-life balance

Relationship management, including

• Developing strong and trusting relationships with key client stakeholders, working in partnership with them to ensure they realize the full potential of Alfa Systems
• Identifying opportunities where additional Alfa professional services and features will better enable our customers to succeed
• Developing a strong internal network at Alfa, working with key team members to ensure knowledge and experience is incorporated into delivery methodologies and Alfa Learning & Development programs
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of delivery methodologies, incorporating industry best practices, prior work experience, and learnings from your Alfa customer engagements

We would love you to have

• Experience leading major deliverables within an enterprise software implementation program
• Detailed knowledge of software development life cycles (SDLC) and enterprise software implementation
• Proven people management skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Preferred

Prior experience working on an Alfa implementation

Experience in the auto finance/equipment finance field

What we’ll do for you

Support you in flexible hybrid or remote working

24 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays and flexible cultural days

Superannuation

• Provide private health insurance
• Support you with enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave with family-friendly policies
• Provide Income protection
• Provide Life, disability and worldwide travel insurance
• Expense up to $90 per month on home broadband

About Alfa

We bring our industry-leading software platform to the likes of Mercedes-Benz and CarMax, so they can do business globally. Supporting all types of auto, equipment and wholesale finance business, our software platform uses a modern technology stack to deliver proven functionality and performance. Our customers use Alfa Systems for the full lifecycle, from point of sale, through originations, to contract management and remarketing. Alfa Systems manages complex leases and loans, in any region, language and currency in a highly available, high-throughput system.

Culture

Our culture is vibrant, innovative and diverse, and we are proud of it. Ours is a close-knit community. Alfa employees are an eclectic mix and all are creative, talented and hardworking. We think it is important to build close working relationships within our company, so we hold numerous team events and conferences that bring us together for socialising and team building. We all enjoy the work-life balance and the great culture, with plenty of social activities organised by the company.