Vice President - HR Optimization - Investment Banking

VP HR Optimization

We have an excellent opportunity with renowned IB organization.

Introduction :

- HR Optimisation team offer a range of services delivering change within the HR function, and supporting business transformation more broadly.

- As a Project Manager this role will lead across a variety of HR projects, partnering with stakeholders across multiple parts of HR, and across the Group more broadly.

What will you be doing?

- The role holder will be responsible for managing a range of HR strategic programmes, working with multiple HR areas (transaction cycles).

- Input to and set out the business case for the programme taking into account information on benefits, costs, risks, resources and timescales.

- Ensures that sufficient level of detail project and quality plans are prepared and maintained for complex projects, providing regular and accurate reports on progress against plan to stakeholders, as appropriate.

- Identifies, assesses and manages project risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies, escalating as appropriate via the agreed governance framework.

- Controls the scope of projects, ensuring that rigorous change control is exercised.

- Responsible for managing the project financials (budget, forecast, actuals) where appropriate.

- Providing detailed and robust reporting to key stakeholders and Project Forums and in additional, where required, writing programme updates to be delivered to the HR Leadership Team and Group ExCo.

- Identify, define & track the realisation of the project benefits in line with the Business Case. Track benefits covering Financial (revenue/cost) and Non-Financial (regulatory, customer/employee satisfaction, reputation).

- Monitor actual performance against overall project and take remedial actions.

- Establish and run Working Groups or Programme Forum (as appropriate).

- Ensures project meet the desired requirements of Accountable Executives and that acceptance and handover to business as usual are managed (as appropriate).

- Ensures that all project status reporting is accurate, informative and timely.

- Oversee impacts assessment, training/communication activities to ensure it is fit for purpose.

- Ensures projects being managed are compliant with relevant HR Optimisation framework governance methodologies.

- Ensure sufficient level of flexibility and tolerance provided to tackle complex nature of project. Maintaining control of exceptions outside tolerance.

What we're looking for :

- Excellent communication, interpersonal and stakeholder management skills. Able to work with and present to senior stakeholders up to and including Group ExCo.

- Excellent PC skills, including Excel, PowerPoint and Word, MS Project and Visio skills.

- Project Management - Practitioner level accreditation (eg Prince 2, PMI, APM) and Agile preferred

Skills that will help you in the role :

- VP level demonstrable Project experience, working on business-driven initiatives with cross functional delivery impact in Financial Services

- Experience on large scale HR transformation programmes

Where will you be working : Chennai, Noida, Pune