Project Manager (Finance Change) recruitment

Position Description: Summary: Plans, leads, organize and delivers the project. Education/Experience: University degree in business management, finance or relevant education/experience required. Previous analyst experience required. Related technical content and banking knowledge. Skills and Competencies: Proven track record of managing projects (e.g. Ledger, Regulatory Reporting etc) within an investment banking environment. An understanding of investment banking products and how an Investment Bank operates. MS Office applications including Visio and MS Project. Understand full life cycle of more than one business area transactions from trade to settlement, accounting and reporting for the products transacted by the business area, has knowledge of some basic valuation techniques. Understands accounting for more complex products in more than one business. Has a good awareness of the regulatory, statutory and VAT reporting requirements for that business. Major Job Duties and Responsibilities: Developing and maintaining a detailed project plan. Securing project resources, managing and leading the project team. Managing each stage in the project lifecycle effectively. Managing project deliverables in line with the project plan. Estimating, planning, agreeing and managing a project's budget. Managing project risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies. Managing project scope and change control, escalating issues where necessary. Monitoring and reporting on project progress and performance. Managing key stakeholder relationships e.g. sponsor, working groups, steering committee. Managing cross functional relationship effectively. Managing the impact of project on the operating model. Ensuring the project satisfies the business requirements. Identifying user training needs and devising and managing user training programmes. Input to post implementation reviews. Additional Position Details:

Purpose of the role

We are recruiting for a Change focussed Project Manager to work in the Programme team within the Data Consistency Programme. We are seeking an experienced, high calibre person to be responsible for all the aspects of coordination and administration for a complex multi-year programme. They will be required to manage programme milestones and ensure regular MIS communications are sent out.

Activities:

This role will require thorough understanding of issues and on-going steams of work both internal and external to this programme to allow successful and timely delivery of each work stream. This role involves high level of interaction with multiple stakeholders in business and technology across key functions to gather and share information, update relevant dashboards, project planners, secure commitments and dependency handshakes and track the various deliveries until completion. This role may involve administrative aspects of managing projects such as resource and budget forecast. Generation of regular updates for programme managers and stakeholders, activities will include:

Competencies:

Deliverables: criteria/results by which success can be measured

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