Allegis Global Solutions is the exclusive Contingent HR services provider for one of the world’s leading banks.
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Our Client is one of the world's most international banks with over 1,100 branches, offices and outlets in 67 countries. They operate in some of the world's most dynamic markets and have been for over 150 years. More than 90 per cent of their income and profits are derived from Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Their brand promise, Here for good, underlines their distinctive approach.
Job Summary
The individual will have responsibility for supporting the management of a large project under a regulatory program of initiatives in the Corporate and Investment Bank (CIB), Digital Channels and Data Analytics (DCDA) for the digital transformation of the bank and ensure successful delivery across the program and project lifecycle.
- Manage the project across the multiple workstreams to ensure timely delivery of commitments.
- Oversee the co-ordination of project level milestones and adherence to standards and governance mechanisms and align to program dates and commitments.
- Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies (“RAID”) and how these components are managed will be part of the Project Management Plan and these processes will be managed by the Project Manager with input from relevant stakeholders.
- Structured and critical thinking to ensure that the project is set up professionally, operating efficiently and driven to manage outcomes.
- Drive proactive management of issues and risks – working closely with the Product Owners and recognising the overall Program and Project level risks and identifying mitigation action plans.
- Drive and manage resourcing / capacity demand and supply working closely with the Technology and Business stakeholders to ensure optimal model and drive productivity metrics.
- Oversee the dependency across product execution plans in close collaboration with leads across multi-functional teams. Maintain momentum across the team to keep projects on track.
- Support prioritisation when projects, issues are deemed ‘urgent’ by assessing what will have the most positive impact on the business/ clients and drive ‘trade off’ decision making.
- Proactively engaging with project teams, technology partners to ensure accurate and transparent management of financials, escalating to management if needed.
- Quantitative and qualitative analysis of product and process performance for regular and responsive management reporting.
- Manage financials/budgeting across the project.
- Establish engagement cadence with stakeholders to ensure that they are informed and part of the decision-making process, as required.
- Effective and timely communication both across the project and program team members and stakeholders
- Be willing to roll up the sleeves and have a ‘no job is too small’ mentality
Experience
- 7+ years of experience in large scale program or project management in financial services, corporate or investment banking.
- PMI, Agile, PMO credentials is a plus.
- Ability to quickly ramp up on new concepts to keep up with the changing environment, deal with uncertainty.
- Track record of managing large scale & complex global roll outs
- Highly experienced in Project management
- Demonstrates good understanding of a wide range of elements of the Bank’s business and the customers, industries, and partners with which the Bank is involved.
- Strong commercial acumen, as well as demonstrable experience of understanding relationships between key financial and non-financial business drivers
- Analytical, critical, and creative problem-solving skills with an in-depth understanding of utilizing electronic delivery channels to meet business goals and client needs.
- Effective and persuasive communication both written and spoken, with strong presentation skills.
- Collaboration skills: ability to drive understanding and information exchange across all stakeholders.
- Highly experienced on synthesizing data and providing analytics driven insights.
- Highly experienced in financial/budget management
- Attention to detail, ability to articulate without ambiguity.
- Strong time management and organizational skills
- Experience in Agile implementation
