AVP Project Manager with Premium Investment Bank

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Role:

• Responsible for the successful delivery of project, plan, budget and agreed quality and governance standards. The role typically requires managing small- to medium-scale projects or small to medium scale work streams within larger projects or programmes typically < 1.5m
• Manages project team engaged throughout the full delivery lifecycle. Delivery of project(s) supporting the business strategy from business case through to initiation, requirement analysis, design, build, testing, implementation and closure
• Managing the project end to end, this includes the IT elements of delivery (where applicable

What will you be doing?
Vision, Strategy and Direction:

• Demonstrates an understanding of strategy set by leadership team
• Support the decision making in the team.

RAIDS:

• Identifies, assesses and manages project risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies, escalating as appropriate via the agreed governance framework.

Change Control:

• Controls the scope of projects and ensure that rigorous change controls are exercised.

Planning:

• Ensures that realistic detailed project plans are prepared and maintained, providing regular and accurate reports on progress against plan to stakeholders as appropriate
• Ensure project dependencies and assumptions are factored into the planning process.

Financial Management:

• Works within the constraints of the resources and budget provided
• Reporting any variances to the parent initiative
• Support in set up of the business case for the programme taking into account information on benefits, costs, risks and timescales, concluding on whether it is desirable, viable and achievable.

Benefits Management:

• Support identification, definition & tracking of the realization of the project benefits in line with the expectation set out in the Business Case
• Ensuring any risks, issues or assumptions related to benefit realization are outlined.

Resource Management:

• Creating and maintaining a resource demand profile for their project/work stream as part of planning and monitoring activities
• Escalating any resource shortfall to superiors in a timely manner
• Reviewing and reporting actual performance against project/work stream plan
• Engaging with HR & CRES for on boarding of new resources (with VP oversight/review).

Governance and Reporting:

• Define and implement governance and reporting structure appropriate for the project
• Establish and run Working Group or SteerCo meetings (as appropriate)
• Ensures projects meet the desired requirements of Accountable Executives and that acceptance and handover to business as usual are managed against agreed acceptance criteria and to a defined plan
• Ensures that all project status reporting is accurate, informative and timely, and directly provides progress reports as agreed as part of the governance framework at agreed intervals.

Change Management:

• Definition of business perspective on how the project deliverables will be delivered to the business, including planning around key business cycles, selecting appropriate customers for migration, etc. (for small/medium projects, with VP oversight/review)
• Initiates and manages the business implementation plan, including all the activities that the business needs to do to prepare for new technical components and technologies or process/organization changes (with VP oversight/review)
• Tracks and reports against these activities to ensure progress
• Handover: Manages the hand-over of products and services delivered by projects being managed to the relevant operational functions
• Create Training Needs analysis and oversee implementation (incl. creation of training/scheduling/conduct training sessions as necessary)
• Create appropriate communication plan to support Business plan & execute on it.

Change standards:

• Ensures projects being managed are compliant with relevant governance methodologies (e.g. iCompass / SDLC / Agile and Navigator)
• Ensures projects being managed are compliant with the central ePMO function’s directives, initiatives and change handbook
• Ensures compliance to QA per Change Framework and initiates other assurance activities where required.
• Typical Support Required:
• Some Programme Manager or VP Project Manager oversight required to ensure project structure, governance and scope are set up to acceptable standards
• Needs support from immediate managers in the design of areas of communication with challenging or more senior stakeholders
• Immediate manager is likely to provide quality control oversight on key deliverables.

What we’re looking for?
Skills

• Strong Business Analysis and Project Management skills (e.g. Planning, RAIDs, Stakeholder Management) in Regulatory Reporting projects
• Understanding of Agile, Kanban, Waterfall methodologies
• Ability to drive and facilitate workshops, Working groups and senior forums with cross-functional people across the board.
• Basic understanding of finance and technology in banking domain.
• Should have experience in managing UAT Cycles, performing Pre-UAT or functional testing.
• Proven experience of operating in a matrix management framework

Qualifications

• MBA (Finance), CA
• Formal project management certification (Agile, PMP, Prince2).

Skills that will help you in the role

• Prince2 Practitioner, PMP Certified, Scrum Master