Project Portfolio Management – Vice President (London) recruitment
The successful candidate will join a highly valued, senior team of ambitious managers. They will gain exposure to multiple areas of the bank and will be well positioned to build a complete understanding of the front-to-back operations of a global investment bank. They will work on high profile and strategically important projects and will be in a position to develop a broad network of contacts across the bank. Many staff go on from their time in Project Services to take on influential roles elsewhere in the bank (for example as COOs in the Front Office).
Responsibilities:
- Developing optimal investment allocation across the IB Project Portfolio
- Carry out ad hoc cost analysis on elements of the current IB Portfolio / Organization
- Supporting financial reporting of the IB Portfolio
- Supporting Change Management Director on various strategic projects
- Developing business cases and supporting program sponsors in business case development
- Aggregating financial data from all programs, projects and activities within various portfolios to develop a comprehensive plan which can be represented in a digestible way to stakeholders at all levels
- Project / program benefits development
- Coordinating inputs from multiple departments
- Driving the development of the change management function
Skills required:
- Knowledge of project management methods, standards and processes
- Program Portfolio Financial Reporting experience within either a Finance Function or IT Portfolio Management Function
- Strong technical finance expertise e.g. capitalization, global allocation methodologies
- Significant project management / delivery experience within a leading consulting firm within financial services or within an international investment bank
- Strong knowledge of investment banking business processes - front to back
- Experience working in close collaboration with Finance, IT and Operations departments
- Strong presentation skills - written and verbal
- Ease in dealing with senior management
- Strong relationship building and stakeholder management skills
- Experience in achieving results in a project context using resources that do not report directly to them
- Ability to multi task / manage multiple projects in parallel
- Strong knowledge of MS Office suite
May 13, 2012
• Tags: Operations careers in the UK, Project Portfolio Management, Vice President (London) recruitment • Posted in: Financial