Strategic Operations Project Lead
1 month ago
We are seeking a highly skilled Project Manager to join our Operations Centre of Excellence. As a key member of our team, you will play a crucial role in delivering our five-year strategic vision for Operations and transforming the operational capability across the bank.
Your primary responsibility will be to lead a work initiative, preparing, managing, and providing reporting on all project plans, controls, and resource plans. You will ensure that activities are in place to adequately prepare the business and engage all the appropriate stakeholders effectively to enable change to be implemented and handed over.
Additionally, you will be responsible for building and maintaining a positive working relationship with senior stakeholders across multiple franchises, domains, and functions. You will also be required to produce executive-level presentations and may lead a team of external suppliers.
Key responsibilities include:
- Empowering and leading a team, often in multiple geographies, through the project lifecycle.
- Identifying, tracking, managing, and mitigating any project risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.
- Leading and defining project documentation and ensuring that the solution clearly supports and is aligned to our strategic goals.
- Tracking and reporting project costs and ensuring that the project is completed within allotted budgets.
- Making sure that all project deliverables satisfy the requirements and adhere to the agreed governance framework.
- Shaping business cases or benefits realization and securing funding via investment processes.
- Addressing policy and control shortfalls and audit findings and implementing strategic solutions in response.
Requirements include:
- Appropriate project management qualification and experience in change management.
- Experience of delivering change within a banking Operations team driving measurable business outcomes.
- Ability to work with ambiguity and pay keen attention to detail.
- Experience of Agile processes and ceremonies and familiarity with Model Risk governance.
- Experience of driving large-scale automation or AI and analyzing a broad range of data to support problem-solving and decision-making.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to produce executive-level presentations.
- Excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills with the ability to engage and communicate with multiple stakeholders at senior level across the bank.
- Critical thinking skills enabling you to cut through complexity and make sound decisions and recommendations that are carefully balanced against risk.
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