Manager - Project Management Office - Markets/Investment Banking Industry

The role holder will be responsible for establishing a project plan, working with project contributors (IT, OPS, FO, etc) to capture milestones and track progress using a project Dashboard. You will also have the responsibility of tracking Risks, Issues, assumptions and decisions.

Principal Accountabilities:

Key activities and decision making areas Typical KPIs and Targets

Impact on the Business:

- Work with analysts, IT developers and others to capture in a project plan all tasks, milestones and dependencies

- Track resource consumption both in terms of effort and budgets

- Help coordinate work across teams and functions

- Contribute to regulatory governances

- Interaction with key Markets support Functions including Operations, Compliance, Finance and Product Control, and Technology with regards to Management Office governance forums and associated information gathering

- Support the Head of Business and Global COO in Equities / GM initiatives & managing ad-hoc requests

- Ability to drive change through effective project planning and execution on regulatory driven projects and initiatives

- Positive collaboration with the COO, Reg. team, and other teams within the Equities functions & also beyond Equities with partners in other asset classes and support function

- Enhance & develop understanding of the Reg. topics to become Champions in Transformation programs

- Effective PLAs for all processes with strong governance and oversight

- Consistent and accurate checks on control reports, trade exceptions and escalations

- Timely updates on any actions due for the projects/ programmes

- Publishing accurate MIs and management pack

- Ensure timely information is produced on a routine and streamlined basis

- Feedback from the Global Management team

Customers / Stakeholders:

- Equities Business Management, COO Community, Desk Heads and other key Front Office resources Globally

- Equities Global support functions including Operations, Compliance, Finance and Product Control, and Technology

- Head of Markets, Bangalore

- Feedback from Key Markets stakeholders

- Effective communication networks used to maintain positive relationships and gather momentum on items as necessary

- Ability to drive change with COO Community & Business Managers

Knowledge & Experience / Qualifications (For the role - not the role holder. Minimum requirements of the role.)

- Exp required 4 to 6 years in the markets or investment banking industry. 

Qualification - Post Graduation or MBA with experience of Banking industry will be preferred.

- Experience in regulatory project management

- Analytical Skills - proven interpretation and utilisation of management information

- Ability to distil complex and varied data into information; good process analysis and problem solving skills

- Advanced level of MS Excel and PowerPoint skills

- Attention to detail and ability to ensure that information is captured in a timely manner

- Excellent written, verbal & presentation communication skills

- The ability to quickly understand business requirements and concerns and deliver a quality result to them