Your new company

Beginning with servicing UK banking operations, the company has grown to be a comprehensive business services hub supporting customers from 39 markets across Asia Pacific, Europe, North America, Latin America and the Middle East and in 4 languages: English, Cantonese, Mandarin and Bahasa Malaysia.

Your new role

Plans, mobilises and directs projects of medium to high complexity scale from definition to closure
Responsible for the end to end delivery of a single project or workstream of a larger project or programme, proactively balancing scope, schedule, budget, risks, outcomes and benefits
Work closely with Programme Managers, Senior Project Managers and Global PMO to ensure alignment of their project with the wider change portfolio and the Group Strategy, Values and Behaviours
Plans effectively around delivery constraints and optimises the plan to maximise benefits and minimise risk. Develops the plan within constraints, considering the delivery approach, key milestones and dependencies within the plan, requirements and scope, effort and resources, budgets and quality
Ensures the baselined scope, requirements, benefits, schedule and budget are managed as outlined in Business Transformation Frameworks. Identifies and intervenes where there is slippage and variance from plan
Proactively monitors project execution to effectively identify risks/issues/dependencies as they arise throughout the project lifecycle. Takes ownership of critical issues and ensures resolution within agreed timescales and implements mitigating plans against identified risks and issues
Collaborates with stakeholders to define the project strategy and develops a roadmap ensuring all constraints of time / resources are met
Provides timely reports on project status, risks and issues, evaluating project performance based on management information
Manages and reports on the project budget, acting on any variance
Manages and reports project risks, issues and dependencies
Maintains project change control ensuring any changes to baseline is manged through change request and all impact are considered
Promotes and takes accountability for project quality; identifies opportunities to improve delivery and oversees the governance process to reduce risk and ensure effective and timely decisions are taken
Ensures project team follow quality assurance processes, Global Transformation frameworks and methodologies for high performance approach across Global Transformation
Ensures governance processes and decision are applied consistently including running Project Steering Committee
Manages project closure and handover to the business and/or function

What you'll need to succeed

Project management skills and experience
People manager and broad experience in managing teams of different work streams
Examples of the delivery of on time and on budget projects that achieve business case stated outcomes – a driver with bias towards delivery at pace and controlling project outcomes
In depth experience of working in a banking environment and change projects
Stakeholder management experience, especially impactful communication, influencing and running project governance Implementation, change management and benefits realisation
Implementation, change management and benefits realisation

What you need to do now

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