IT Project Management with LPS System

Job title: IT Project Management with LPS System 

Job location: 1000 Main Street, Houston, Tx

Job Type: Contract

Job description:

What is the LPS system?

Lease Purchase System (LPS) is a core, legacy trading system used primarily in US Products / Crude contexts to manage lease based purchases and related financial processing.

From the enterprise documentation:

LPS is the system of record for managing the companies US lease purchases, handling commercial, contractual, and financial aspects of leased supply

What LPS actually does (business wise):

•LPS supports high value, high volume commercial activity, including:

•Deal and contract entry for lease based purchases

•Contract generation and maintenance

•Pricing and run ticket processing

•Division of interest (DOI) master data management

•Payments and reporting, including 1099 tax reporting

•SOX critical controls around contract and payment data

LPS is:

• A large IBM mainframe application (z/OS)

• Written mainly in COBOL/TELON, with DB2 and VSAM

• ~5 million lines of code

• Integrated with Endur, MCC, and other downstream systems

• Costly to run and increasingly constrained by:

• Mainframe capacity limits

• Emulator and license costs

• Integration complexity

• Difficulty evolving logic (some logic has already "escaped" into Access / spreadsheets)

Roles and Responsibilities:

Agree and deliver programmes, projects and workstreams to agreed time, cost, quality, risk and benefit, within company standards and controls framework. Proactively analyze variances against plan and trends threatening agreed scope, time, cost, and quality commitments. Identify where a project may be at risk and take appropriate action. Engage internal and external stakeholders e.g. users/customers/suppliers to benefit from the delivered products, services and changes. Develop and execute appropriate change and engagement plans to achieve necessary behavior changes and maximize benefits. Align expectations and ensure that stakeholders’ decisions are a timely and effective. Mobilise and lead teams with a mixture of staff and suppliers across organizational boundaries and the natural team. Ensure they have the necessary skills, capacity and experience to achieve the required outcomes. Develop the skills of team members through coaching, delegation and providing stretching assignments. Understand, assess and embed the right delivery methodologies, considering project and business constraints. Assess programme risks and evaluate trade-offs between cost, time, quality, risk and benefit, managing the business cases of your projects and workstreams. Ensure all deliverables are fit for purpose, meet all relevant requirements and are effectively transitioned to support and business-as-usual. Ensure that the business value intended by the work is explicit, agreed and delivered.

Mandatory skills:

Program and project delivery up to $10m budget & Teams up to 50. Agile & waterfall methodology. Domain knowledge e.g. Chemicals, Deepwater, Retail, Finance, Legal, HR. Cloud, mobile, SAS, and digital. leadership, communication and resilience. stakeholder management and enabling value creation.

Optional skills:

• Business-value mindset

• Critical thinking

• Storytelling