Program Planner
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Job Summary
As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue SS&C is headquartered in Windsor Connecticut and has 27000 employees in 35 countries. Some 20000 financial services and healthcare organizations from the worlds largest companies to small and mid-market firms rely on SS&C for expertise scale and technology.
Job Description
Title: Program Planner
Location: Australia Preferably Melbourne Hybrid
Type: Full Time II 12 Months Fixed Term Contract
Job Description
Get To Know Us:
SS&C GIDS provides information processing and computer software services and products. The Companys operating segments include financial markets customer management professional services and output solutions. SS&C GIDS serves the alternative investments asset and wealth management banking and lending insurance and real estate industries.
Why You Will Love It Here!
- Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model
- Your Future: Income Protection Insurance & Salary Continuance
- Work/Life Balance: Generous Bereavement & Compassionate leave
- Your Wellbeing: Private Health Insurance discount Primary & Secondary Paid Parental leave Death & TPD Insurance
- Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
- Training: Hands-On Team-Customized including SS&C University
- Extra Perks: Discounts on fitness clubs travel and more!
Please note that this role can be based in Melbourne Sydney or Newcastle.
What You Will Get To Do:
As a Program Planner you will work alongside Program Managers Project Managers and Delivery Teams to build and manage program schedule providing expertise and advice on planning scheduling and dependency management alongside producing reporting and progress tracking summaries to ensure the successful delivery of the program.
In this role you will be responsible for producing and maintaining the overall program schedule including the following key responsibilities.
- Create and maintain the schedules for a large multi-year program.
- Establish and maintain an operating rhythm to enable progress in line with the critical path and to report on variances.
- Manage the baseline and variances working with stakeholders to ensure appropriate change governance is followed identifying flow-on impacts on changes.
- Identify major milestones artefacts/deliverables decision points and other key events.
- Identify the critical path for initiatives and understand the connection to other work within the portfolio overall critical path.
- Facilitate planning and dependency workshops to ensure programs are well sequenced dependencies elicited and management plans in place.
- Provide expertise and advice on planning and scheduling to ensure the optimum delivery of programs/projects.
- Provide recommendations for alternative options or raise concerns based on assessments of schedules and sequence.
- Track monitor and report on the status of the project schedule recommending appropriate governance and remediation.
- Identify Risk and Issues based on schedule performance and upcoming activities.
- Communicate effectively and build strong relationships with all key stakeholders both internal and external.
What You Will Bring:
- Expert knowledge of Microsoft Project.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills confidence in liaising with people at all levels.
- Strong Excel PowerPoint Word and JIRA skills.
- Effective communication and collaboration fostering positive engagement.
- Able to identify and prioritise stakeholders needs and expectations and incorporate them into plans.
- Capable of adjusting project plans and strategies while maintaining focus on project objectives and deliverables
- Previous experience on large multi-stream transition and large-scale transformation programs is an advantage.
- Previous experience within financial services is an advantage.
We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. Its important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.
Thank you for your interest in SS&C! If applicable to further explore this opportunity please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website @ explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies Inc. or any of its affiliated companies the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters recruitment agencies or fee-based recruitment services.
SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race color religious creed gender age marital status sexual orientation national origin disability veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.
Key Skills
- GIS
- JAWS
- Military Experience
- Business Management
- Emergency Management
- Joint Operations
- Production Planning
- Relationship Management
- Strategic Planning
- ERP Systems
- Exercise Planning
- MRP
About Company
Leading cloud-based provider of financial services technology solutions. SS&C Technologies owns and maintains the best financial technology in the industry
