Vice President - Risk Transformation Project Management - BFS

Role Purpose

- Global Risk Transformation Senior Project Managers plan, mobilise and direct projects of highcomplexity 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 programme.

- Responsible for deploying Risk-Based Project Management Business Transformation Framework within their project.

- They work closely with the Programme Manager and Global Portfolio Management to ensure alignment of their project with the wider change portfolio and the Group Strategy, Values and Behaviours.

Impact on the Business

- Support the Delivery of key projects for Wholesale Credit Risk.

- Support the information gathering, analysis and documentation of the Current state where required

- Coordinate and manage the design and documentation of the project

- Plan and manage the implementation of the project

- Support each programme workstream and impacted user group in effecting the transition from implementation into Business-As-Usual.

- Value Creation

- 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 budgetary 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

- Influences and collaborates with stakeholder and business partners to drive the right project outcomes. Represents the project team at discussions regarding project prioritisation and to create buy-in for risk mitigation and contingency plans

- Obtains sponsor and stakeholder buy into plans, key commitments and changes against baseline as they arise

- Obtains sponsor and stakeholder sign-off for deliverables, formally closes project, assesses stakeholder satisfaction and captures feedback. Captures key learns from each project and feeds back into Global Risk Transformation methodologies and best practice

- Articulates to stakeholders the targeted benefits and takes joint responsibility for benefits realisation

- Manages the business sponsor, working with them to ensure project deliverables are met

- Plans and manages the implementation of the change, to ensure business benefits are realised and that the transition from current state to target state is smooth. Ensuring that the organisation and other change audiences are ready, willing and able to function in the new business environment

- Works closely with delivery partners on planning, design and estimating, bringing together delivery and business partner teams; actively managing dependencies between these teams and other projects and programmes

- Sets the pace and operating rhythm, driving a culture of achievement and ensures pace by identifying and removing barriers to project success.

Knowledge

- Excellent understanding of the project lifecycle

- Strong understanding of project management methodologies and best practice techniques

- Excellent knowledge of financial institutions, global markets, trading environments and traded risk

- Excellent knowledge of the different functions within a Traded Risk organisation

- Strong understanding of how change drives benefits for the bank, its customers and other stakeholders

- Ability to develop effective working relationships with stakeholders of different seniority, diverse cultures & geographical locations

Experience

- Extensive project management skills and experience of managing large and complex global projects

- Good stakeholder management experience, especially impactful communication, influencing and running project governance Implementation, change management and benefits realisation

- Multiple strong examples of the delivery of on time and on budget projects that achieve business case stated outcomes - a driver with bias towards delivery at pace and controlling project outcomes

- Strong people manager and broad experience in managing global virtual teams of different cultures

- Worked in a banking environment and change projects in a Risk function

- Implementation, change management and benefits realisation

- Experience defining and documenting organisations & business process models

- Strong attention to detail and being solution oriented.

Capabilities

- Planning and Plan Management

- Process Re-engineering

- Consultancy

- Business Case and Benefits Realisation

- Change and Implementation Management

- Risk and Issues Management

- Global Mindset

- Customer Empathy

- Decision Making

- Commerciality

- Lead Self and Others

- Business Analysis and Design

- Financial and Budget Management

- Tracking, Reporting and Governance

- Stakeholder Management

- Impactful communication

- Resource and Team Management

- Delivery at Pace

- Embracing change

- Achieving excellence

- Collaboration

- Problem solving and Critical Thinking

- Innovation and Idea Management