Head of Business Testing & Assurance
This role has the option be based in Birmingham, Edinburgh or London.
UK Corporate Banking serves UK corporate and commercial customers from SMEs to UK based multi-nationals, providing them with everyday banking, innovative products and services, and specialist help. We work together with our customers to achieve their financial goals with local and sector expertise and access to the right products across the UK. By applying our product capabilities and intellectual capital, we have built strong relationships with many leading businesses and institutions.
Our Change professionals manage strategic projects delivering major change and mandatory programmes. Change also manages smaller change initiatives whilst ensuring appropriate business and technology operating models are designed, agreed and implemented. Our Change functions also have responsibility for creating and fostering a climate of continuous improvement in initiating and delivering projects, striving for excellence and contributing to the overall development of the RBS Group strategy.
As Head of Business Testing Assurance, you'll manage the SPM testing relationship with Technology Services (and other software providers), Group Operations and with other Business Change functions. You will represent CBD in all matters of testing on cross-divisional and Group change programmes. You will provide leadership of a key service function, including building a team of professionally accredited testers who are able to champion the bank’s internal standards through the Connect4Change framework, and best leverage offsite, near shore and offshore capability. You'll also create a capability benchmark through the industry TMMi framework and lead a series of action plans to enhance this accreditation.
For this Head of Business Testing Assurance role you'll need to have significant experience in a business (or technology) change delivery role coupled with experience as a Senior Test Manager or Senior Programme Manager. It's important that you've experience of driving complex change initiatives at a strategic level. And you'd need proven people leadership skills, managing multi-site teams, including offshore, totalling 50 staff members or more. You'll bring proven networking skills that can enable change and gain quick wins and show a flexible approach to work with the ability to accept and champion change. And you'll have extensive knowledge of programme management methodologies and frameworks with a thorough understanding of different strategies and approaches to testing.
In return, we offer an excellent employee salary and 30% cash and benefit funding programme which can be tailored to suit your individual needs. In addition to financial benefits, we offer a wide selection of exclusive lifestyle offers, development and learning programmes, services and support designed to help you manage and balance your own work-life priorities.
Please note as part of our referencing process credit checks will be undertaken.
If you'd like to discuss this role in confidence please contact David Liddell on 0131 626 2414.
Did you know that RBS won a number of awards as a top employer in the UK in 2012? Best Business Awards 'Best Employer', Business In The Community Top 10 'Ethnic Equality’ ‘Gender’, Working Families 'Top 10 Employer', Workingmums.co.uk Top Employer 'Employee Engagement’, The Times Top 50 ‘Where Women Want to Work’, The Times Top 100 'Graduate Employers’, and The Sunday Times 100 ‘Best Companies to Work For’.
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