Senior Project Manager - Front Office/Middle Office/Product Control/Risk/Basel/RWA

Role:

Senior Project Managers plan, mobilize and direct projects of high complexity and scale from project definition to closure. They are responsible for the end to end planning and delivery of one or more projects proactively balancing scope, schedule, budget, risks, team, outcomes and benefits. Projects can be standalone or form part of a program. They are responsible for deploying Project Management Framework and other Business Transformation Frameworks (BTF) within their project. They work closely with the Program Manager and Global Portfolio Management Office to ensure alignment of their project with the wider change portfolio and the Group Strategy, Values and Behaviors.

Senior Project Managers will often play a people / team management role within the projects / programs they work on. As members of the management team, they will also have line management responsibility for a group of more junior resources within their resource pool (as related to their job family).

i.e., Alongside project delivery responsibilities, the Senior Project Manager may have a line responsibility for a pool of Project Managers (people management, performance management, resource management and professional development).

Accountabilities:

Plans effectively around delivery constraints and optimises the plan to maximise benefits and minimise risk. Develops the plan within constraints, considering the delivery approach, key milestones and dependencies within the plan, requirements and scope, effort and resources, budgets and quality.

Ensures the baselined scope, requirements, benefits, schedule and budget are managed as outlined in Business Transformation Frameworks. Identifies and intervenes where there is slippage and variance from plan.

Plans and analyses costs, tracking operating and capital spend, and tracks reporting to financial business case commitments

Oversees the tracking of project/s risks/issues/dependencies, assesses the impact on the benefit realisation for the project/s and takes action to minimise impact, actively challenging and removing obstacles