Agile Delivery Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Job purpose

At Emirates, we believe in connecting the world, to and through, our global hub in Dubai; and in constantly innovating to ensure our customers 'Fly Better'.

Embark on a journey with the world's largest international airline and become a vital part of our cutting-edge information and technology team as Agile Delivery Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis.

The Agile Delivery Manager may be responsible for managing several concurrent high visibility initiatives using agile/hybrid (for Package Acquisition) methods in a fast paced environment that may involve multiple business units.

Delivery expert who has worked on large projects in the finance domain and has a good exposure to vendor product implementation. Any exposure to financial planning & analysis area or enterprise performance management product implementation (like Anaplan, Board, Oracle Hyperion or other industry solutions) would be an advantage.

In this role, you will:

• Facilitate key ceremonies such as PI planning and review, and play a consultative role to help put in place the appropriate people, process, and tools supporting the Agile framework and coaching members of the team as needed to optimize the efficiency of the Release Train team.
• Act as a champion in blending traditional project management principles and practices with an Agile development approach in the right proportions to fit initiatives of all sizes with the appropriate level of planning and provide the right balance of agility and predictability based on PMI-ACP principles.
• Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame or retribution, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving. Protect and provide all support to the teams using a servant leadership style whenever possible and lead by example. Facilitate getting the work done practicing servant leadership and encourage discussion, decision making and conflict resolution.
• Lead the integrated programme planning (Lean Start Up). Working with portfolio teams and supporting the Technical Product Manager, drive and facilitate decomposition of Epic Roadmaps into integrated program backlog/plans (Features), ready for hand off into team level backlogs.
• Drive quality and ensure the definition of done (DOD) is being followed; ensure each team member is fully engaged in the stories and making a meaningful contribution. Encourage a sustainable pace adhering to the agreed quality management plan with the team. Maintain an agile project management tool (e.g. ScrumDesk, JIRA, etc.).
• Assist in team development through holding teams accountable for their commitments, removing roadblocks to their work; leveraging cross functional team skills to improve product backlog throughput; and mentoring and developing team members. Attend regular stand-ups and scrum of scrums, in order to understand the team’s progress and issues, and to flag up to the team, where necessary, any important external issues of which they need to be aware.
• Support the Technical Product Manager in managing business expectations and transparency in both product backlog and schedule for all initiatives. Support IT Service Manager on service management, service performance and continuous improvements.
• Define and manage a well-defined process and champion ongoing process improvement initiatives to implement best practices for Agile Delivery Management. Implement an agile governance with key ceremonies, drive continuous improvement with constant assessments of velocity (team story point throughput), defect percentage improvements etc., and also ensure that required governance and ceremonies are in place to give visibility and transparency to business stakeholders.
• Assist with the cost estimation/sizing exercise for both near term and future initiatives and assist with preparing total cost of ownership with the product team, maintain the actuals within the allocated budget and also ensure that forecasting for all the demands are accurately done for the fiscal year.
• Together with the product team, support the RFx phases in the procurement process and the scheduling of such activities in relation to the product lifecycle.

Qualification

To be considered for this role, you must meet the below requirements:

• Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) and 8+ years of experience
• Proven leadership and project delivery experience in a matrix organisation with global teams for a large organisation.
• Experience in agile delivery within the context of large technology change programmes.
• Certified SAFe and PMI ACP (additional certifications such as PMI, Prince 2, CSM desirable) with 5+ years of practical application of the Scrum Management discipline.
• Well-versed in the use of tools of software delivery e.g. ServiceNow ITBM, MS Office suite, JIRA, Confluence etc.
• Good architectural knowledge of large scale systems.

Leadership role: Yes

Salary & benefits

That's on top of transport benefits, life insurance and more.

About the Company

A fast-growing international airline with one of the youngest fleets in the sky and more than 400 awards for excellence worldwide.

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