AVP/VP - Project Management - Retail & Wholesale Banking Domain

Role:

Produce a well-defined project plan, identifying the key milestones and assigning responsibilities/resources

Develops the plan in line with Project Management Framework.

Develops and/or reviews estimates and estimating assumptions for the project's schedule, effort, and cost using established Global Change Delivery estimating models, best practices, and past experience

Mobilises the project team and allocates tasks and roles

Provides timely reports on project status, risks and issues, evaluating project performance based on management information

Manages and reports on the project budget, acting on any variance

Manages and reports project risks, issues and dependencies

Drives a culture of achievement and ensure pace by identifying and removing barriers to project success

Maintains project change control, ensuring any changes to baseline are managed through change request and all impacts are considered

Promotes and takes accountability for project quality; identifies opportunities to improve delivery and oversees the governance process to reduce risk and ensure effective and timely decisions are taken

Ensures project team follow quality assurance processes, frameworks and methodologies to ensure the common high performance approach across.

Ensures governance processes and decisions are applied consistently, including:

Engaging the project sponsor and stakeholders effectively

Creation and running of effective Steering Committee, who make focused decisions, based upon accurate and timely status, performance reports. Using the committee as the first point of escalation.

Use Management Services team for standardised project metrics and reporting driven out of Clarity. Management by exception of budget and schedule variance. Ensuing accurate and responsible status reporting. Escalating, co-ordinating any mitigants or remedial action.

Plans and executes regular tollgates in line with BTF.

Skills:

8+ years of relevant experience into Functional Project Management.

Should be from Retail and Wholesale banking domain only.