[ref. l5082321] Offshoring Senior Project Manager - Michael Page

About Our Client

A large international bank based in London.

Job Description

Offshoring Senior Project Manager role:

• This role is to manage a project focusing on offshoring / outsourcing, and will in particular be focused on managing the transition of services identified in scope through the offshoring process in a controlled manner.
• Provides the appropriate Programme, Change and Project Management technical expertise.
• Responsible for bringing the organisation into compliance by driving and delivering the required regulatory change objectives and goals across the EMEA entities to the required standards, within the specified timeframe and to the agreed budget with minimal impact on the business.
• Ensures that any change project has appropriate governance, transparency and oversight. Must make sure that the rationale, progress, controls and decision-making are robustly documented and evidenced to withstand review by external Regulatory Authorities.

Responsibilities:

• Lead cross-functional EMEA-wide programme and/or project teams, managing all project lifecycle activities associated with change that is regulatory or business driven, frequently long-term, business-wide and high in risk, scope and complexity.
• Accountable for managing the programme or project lifecycle and budget in line with the banks Methodology, consistently demonstrating ownership of the entire process from beginning to end and ensuring that all benefits and deliverables are aligned with the banks objectives and commensurate with our business profile.
• Influence, motivate and manage diverse teams across the EMEA organization, including representatives from a wide variety of departments across a range of corporate grades to ensure timely delivery of required results with least possible impact on the bank's business and customers.
• Plan and drive completion of all outcomes and/or deliverables including the business case, regulatory requirements, programme/project roadmap, benefits baseline, budget, testing, deliverables implementation and handover into business as usual
• Identify and then judge when to escalate risks and issues and their associated mitigation plans to the C-level Sponsors and appropriate committees (SteerCo/ExCo) in order to prevent impact or additional risk.
• Accountable for achieving appropriate governance and transparency, liaising with multiple members of senior management and external parties so that the appropriate oversight is achieved.
• Ensure that all deliverables achieve compliance for the organisation, are firmly within current market practise and can with stand formal regulatory scrutiny.
• Recognize, address and rapidly adapt to ongoing change during the lifecycle. Document internal and external impacts including impact on existing policies and associated procedures, formulate and present suitable mitigation plans and ensure all updates are completed to impacted areas.

The Successful Applicant

Offshoring Senior Project Manager Experience and Qualifications:

• Educated to degree level and professional BA qualifications desirable
• Able to successfully manage multiple tasks at any given point, strong relationship building skills &communication skills (both written and verbal)
• Knowledge of front to back office business processes and products
• knowledge and experience of financial services, markets and banking activities and the surrounding regulatory framework.
• prior experience of successfully delivering projects within financial services
• experience of regulatory change impacting banking systems, processes, and procedures.
• Knowledge of banking operational and trade flows
• Experience of participating in deadline driven and/or systems project teams.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively to gain agreement and resolve conflict
• Must be able to take own initiative but also willing to support and take direction when working with a Projector Programme Manager
• Resilient to work under pressure to meet deadlines.
• Must be able to demonstrate flexibility to move between "big picture" thinking and handling detailed tactical information.
• Able to work collaboratively in teams, ask good questions to rapidly understand complex systems and processes, analyse data and make recommendations based on evidence from the data.

• Able to produce gap analysis/requirements, workflows and high-quality business requirement documents covering current and future state proposals.
• Expertise in banking products, prior experience of providing regulatory analysis and business requirements documentation
• Expertise in interpreting regulatory requirements is helpful
• Proven ability to analyse current and future regulatory or business requirements and translate them into practical implications for specific processes and systems.

What's on Offer

This is a competitive day rate contract inside IR35 on an umbrella basis.