Job Description

1.0  Assignment Description

This Senior Project Manager role reports into the Head of Risk & Resilience Change Management within the Risk & Resilience function in the Operations division of the client.

The Risk & Resilience Change Management team is focused on driving change on behalf of Risk & Resilience across the broader client organisation by implementing & embedding common frameworks, capabilities, tools, policies, and standards as well as putting in place metrics and reporting to track the progress and impact of the work being done.

The successful candidate for this role would:

  • Work on project managing and delivering various key initiatives concurrently.
  • Have strong Project Management Skills with experience working across a broad organisation co-ordinating initiative leveraging both agile and waterfall techniques.
  • Have Financial Services experience with an understanding of the functions performed in a Financial Services Organisation, especially Operations
  • Have awareness of Operational Resilience, Risk, Controls, 1LoD, 2LoD, 3LoD Framework, and/or

Data Management

 

2.0  Role Responsibilities & Key Accountabilities

The successful candidate will be expected to be responsible and accountable for:

  • Managing complex, large-scale and/or high-risk project that involves multiple senior internal and external stakeholders
  • Lead the development of project artifacts, integrated project plans, resource and contingency plans, ensuring they are scoped and documented and that risk management processes are in place
  • Partners with project sponsors/stakeholders to define project objectives, milestones and success criteria and develops status reports to update senior stakeholders on project progress, and gains commitments to ensure corrective actions take place if required
  • Anticipates issues and delays and evaluates trade-offs between project size, complexity, cost, risk etc. effectively assessing and resolving high-priority project risks
  • Leads multiple workstreams and large project teams throughout the project lifecycle delivering results that meet the success parameters stated in the business case
  • Manages the project budget request process and performs regular financial reviews, tracking and measuring financial performance and key metrics against plan and validating financial forecasts
  • Ensures all projects adhere to client Standards for project methodology, governance and risk management

 

3.0  Candidate Profile / Key Skills

Essential

  • Strong planning and organisation skills
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and the proven ability to work effectively with all organisational levels
  • Excellent at managing and influencing a wide network of stakeholders, including senior management, who can influence and build relationships
  • Willing and able to challenge customers and stakeholders to better understand their needs
  • Expert knowledge of financial management, risk, and project management methodologies
  • Excellent documentation skills; ability to create high quality steering committee materials
  • More than 5 years of project or programme experience
  • Educated to degree level or equivalent

 Preferred

  • Understanding of Risk & Controls, Controls, 1LoD, 2LoD, 3LoD Framework, Operational Resilience, Data Management and/or Data Governance
  • Global experience – working successfully with teams in multiple locations simultaneously
  • Experience and knowledge of large scale, global, change programmes and portfolio management
  • Experience in large investment banking or financial services organisations

 

 

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