AVP - Project Management - Financial Services Domain

Role Overview

Responsible for the overall management control and delivery of Business Critical projects within the SWIFT Change Delivery Programme, including scheduled systems releases, and other key Projects (including mandatory/regulatory).

Your Role

- Overall responsibility for the successful delivery of the project to plan, budget and agreed quality and governance standards.

- Manage suppliers in line with agreed contractual obligations, milestones and quality standards.

- Provide effective communications and relationship building with key senior stakeholders within technology, operations and product and provide Project status reporting that is accurate, informative and timely.

- Own and drive the effective governance of the Project.

- Own and drive the Project planning framework, ensuring that plans are developed and tracked to appropriate standards.

- Control the Project scope, ensuring that rigorous change control is exercised.

- Ensure the project meets the expected requirements and that acceptance and handover to business as usual are managed against agreed acceptance criteria and to a defined plan.

- Define project budgets, obtain funding and track actual expenditure to ensure the project remains on track from a financial perspective.

Essential Skills

- Must have a track record of managing business or technical Projects in the financial services.

- Strong Project mobilization / initiation / planning experience in addition to management of established Projects.

- Must be able to demonstrate excellent stakeholder management, communication and presentation skills at Senior Management/Director level, with strong and influential personal credibility.

- Leadership skills with evidence of managing medium-large teams across a range of disciplines and locations.

- Demonstrable record of managing Project budgets effectively, and delivering within budgetary constraints.

Desirable Skills

- Knowledge of SWIFT and SWIFT infrastructures.

- Has operated in roles facing off directly to senior Stakeholders. A track record of successfully managing stakeholder relationships is definitely preferred.

- Previous experience of managing payments related projects.

- Ability to manage and deliver Projects in a business that is undergoing a high degree of organizational and strategic change.

- Formal external qualification/accreditation to Prince II or PMI methodologies, or at least experience of Prince II/PMI in a project environment.

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