Program Planner

As a Program Planner at SS&C, you will be instrumental in building and managing program schedules for large, multi-year initiatives. This role involves providing expertise in planning, scheduling, and dependency management, alongside producing progress reports and tracking summaries. You will work closely with Program Managers, Project Managers, and Delivery Teams to ensure successful program delivery, manage baselines, identify critical paths, and facilitate planning workshops.

Must Have

• Create and maintain large multi-year program schedules.
• Establish and maintain operating rhythm for progress reporting.
• Manage schedule baselines and variances with change governance.
• Identify major milestones, deliverables, and critical path.
• Facilitate planning and dependency workshops.
• Provide planning and scheduling expertise and advice.
• Track, monitor, and report on project schedule status.
• Identify schedule-based risks and issues.
• Communicate effectively and build strong stakeholder relationships.
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Project.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and JIRA skills.
• Ability to identify and prioritise stakeholder needs.
• Capability to adjust project plans while maintaining objectives.

Good to Have

• Previous experience on large, multi-stream transition and large-scale transformation programs.
• Previous experience within financial services.

Perks & Benefits

• Hybrid Work Model
• Income Protection Insurance
• Salary Continuance
• Generous Bereavement & Compassionate leave
• Private Health Insurance discount
• Primary & Secondary Paid Parental leave
• Death & TPD Insurance
• Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Hands-On, Team-Customized Training
• SS&C University
• Discounts on fitness clubs
• Discounts on travel

Get To Know Us:

SS&C GIDS provides information processing and computer software services and products. The Company’s 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. It's 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 @ www.ssctech.com/careers.

Unless 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.