Associate Vice President - Project Manager - Retail Banking

Experience: 10-17 Years

Positions open: AVP PM (7+ years relevant in PM Role is a must)

Location: Pune

Hiring for leading Investment Bank!

Responsibilities:

- Produce a well-defined project plan, identifying the key milestones by assigning responsibilities & resources.

- Create a detailed project plan capturing low level activities and assigning owners, tracking the progress closely.

- Provides timely reports on project status. Identify risks/issues/dependencies as they arise throughout the project lifecycle and escalate them in the appropriate governance forums with proper mitigation plan.

- Maintains project change control, ensuring any changes to baseline are managed through change request.

- Collaborates and builds positive stakeholder relationships providing regular updates, obtains buy-in from all project stakeholders encompassing key project activities.

- Promotes and takes accountability for project quality; identifies opportunities to improve delivery. Manages Change Adoption to ensure the change lands well and sticks, contributing to benefits realization.

- Analyses management reports and derives insights from it to drive the right business decisions. Drive project discussions autonomously towards logical conclusion.

- Drives project governance / assurance activities (e.g. Non-Financial Risk assessment, Data control, product approvals etc.) with business, legal, regulatory compliance, financial crime risk teams etc.

- Coordinate with internal and external third-party vendors for flawless execution of project. Escalate the risks to project delivery, budget, resourcing gaps with mitigation plan in relevant governance forums

Qualifications:

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:

- 10+ years of experience in project management in the banking and financial institutions. In depth understanding of the project lifecycle.

- Proficient in change adoption techniques. In depth knowledge and experience of project execution in agile framework with extensive hands-on experience in tools such as Clarity/ JIRA/ MS Project/ confluence etc.

- Strong understanding of Retail banking & how change drives benefits for bank, customers, and other stakeholders.

- Ability to interact and influence senior stakeholders to drive decisions in achieving desired project outcome.

- Problem solving ability with adherence to stringent timelines in fast paced environment.

- Experience in project tracking (setting up project plan, managing risk and issue log, tollgates, reporting and governance)

- Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills.

- Proficient in financial and budget management. Driving consistency & lead team/s by sharing best practices around how complex & multi market projects are defined, managed, and monitored.

Mandatory Skills:

- Total min 10 years of experience

- 7+ years in PM role

Note: Candidates without 7+ years in PM role is a direct reject for this role. Must have 4+ years in Retail banking domain