SVP Senior Project Manager-Business Analyst

Our client operates in the Financial sector, with its headquarters rooted strongly in the United States. It has its branches spread to more than 160 countries, providing employment to more than 200k people all over the world. They fall in the Top 15 largest Banks in the United States. Its core business is to provide various Banking and Financial services to its clients. It is known to have one of the biggest balance sheet banks in the world (among others) aiding it to offer 360-degree financial services to its clients.

Responsibilities:

• The individual will have responsibility for one or more regulatory / business mandatory / strategic initiatives:
• Set-up and manage multiple projects
• Ensure terms of references are agreed with all stakeholders and appropriate governance & control structures are in place
• Establish roles & responsibilities (RACI) outlined as part of the terms of reference
• Develop, track and maintain project plans, including the provision of regular and accurate status reports
• Estimates budget, timescales and resource requirements for the successful completion of each project to agreed scope and constraints.
• Act as the key point of contact for all project matters leveraging Legal SMEs, and lawyers as appropriate.
• Manage & coach a direct (or matrix) team of business analysts/project managers providing direction and guidance to achieve project objectives.
• Manage business analysts, project managers, consultants, contractors and vendor teams as required, liaising with internal and external stakeholders to ensure success
• Manage project team conflicts, build collaborative partnerships with stakeholders as well as make timely decisions.
• Manage project risk, issues, assumptions and dependencies with a strong focus on ensuring there are clear owners and resolution dates
• Perform necessary review & challenge sessions regularly across the project portfolio to ensure key business objectives are met.
• Managing scope creep, conduct impact analysis for changes and communicate changes, enhancements, and modification of deliverables verbally or through written documentation – to project managers, vendor teams, sponsors, central regulatory coordination team and other stakeholders so that impact of change, issues and solutions are understood
• Participate in vendor/technology selections, demonstrations, testing, quality reviews.
• Mapping ‘as-is’ and ‘to-be’ business states, identifying opportunities for improvement, options for change, modelling different scenarios, analysing impacts of change, analyse solutions and summarise options & recommendations
• Support in development of test plans, coordinate/lead user acceptance testing (UAT) by creating test plans, test scripts, providing training, track progress and coordinate with relevant teams on the necessary fixes/enhancements prior to sign-off and implementation

Requirements:

• At least 10 years of project management/business analysis experience
• At least 15 years work experience in Banking & Capital Markets (or consultancy)
• Experience of client outreach and/or legal projects highly beneficial
• Significant people/team management experience.
• Significant experience of managing large scale, complex and projects
• Deep experience of financial markets in at least one domain e.g., Loans, Derivatives, Securities
• Exposure to any of the following would be beneficial i) client outreach projects ii) LIBOR remediation iii) benchmarking iv) MIFID2 v) UMR.
• Experience in developing comprehensive project plans ideally in MS-Project
• Managing vendor staff, consultants as well as non-direct reports (influencing wider stakeholders to deliver to project goals)