Senior Project Manager - 24 month FTC

Job Title: Senior Project Manager - 24 month FTC Company: KPMG Job Category: Salesforce Roles & Responsibilities: The Senior Project Manager leads complex business and technology initiatives from initiation through to delivery, ensuring outcomes are achieved within agreed scope, time, cost and quality expectations. Working across business and technical teams, the role provides strong delivery leadership, governance and stakeholder engagement, proactively manages risks and dependencies, and keeps projects aligned with organisational priorities and intended benefits. ### Day to day you will: * Lead projects from initiation and planning through to design, delivery, and closure. * Define project scope, objectives, delivery approach, plans, milestones, resourcing and success measures. * Establish effective governance, reporting, decision\-making and change control throughout the project lifecycle. * Coordinate cross\-functional project teams, vendors and delivery partners to maintain momentum and accountability. * Manage budgets, schedules, resources, risks, issues, dependencies and quality to support successful delivery. * Communicate progress, risks, decisions, financial performance and expectations clearly across stakeholder groups. * Partner with sponsors and business owners to support business cases, benefits realisation, organisational readiness and adoption. * Promote continuous improvement and strengthen project delivery practices. ### About you: * Seven or more years’ project management experience, including leading complex technology initiatives. * Demonstrated experience delivering projects within agreed scope, schedule, budget and quality expectations. * Strong capability in project planning, governance, financial management, reporting and delivery assurance. * Proven ability to anticipate and manage risks, issues, dependencies, competing priorities and delivery constraints. * Experience leading cross\-functional teams and working effectively with senior stakeholders, vendors and technical specialists. * Strong leadership, facilitation, problem\-solving, negotiation and stakeholder communication skills. * Experience in Agile, waterfall or hybrid delivery environments. * Experience delivering Salesforce or SAP S/4HANA implementation projects would be advantageous. * PRINCE2 or Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is desirable. * Comfortable working autonomously across multiple initiatives while navigating ambiguity, complexity and organisational change. Recruitment Agencies: The recruitment for this role is being managed directly by the KPMG Talent Acquisition team. We will contact our preferred agency partners if we require agency assistance. Thank you for your understanding.* KPMG values diversity in the workforce and we encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply for roles, including individuals with a disability, additional mental health needs, chronic health conditions or who identify as neurodivergent. For disabled and neurodiverse candidates, if you encounter accessibility barriers or if you have access needs and require support to participate equitably in the recruitment process, please email Emma at KPMGAccessibilityNetwork@kpmg.co.nz. For any general questions about the role or recruitment process, feel free to reach out to our Talent Acquisition team at Jobs@kpmg.co.nz. Work Location: Auckland City, N, New Zealand Availability: Full time

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