Vice President - PMO - Financial Services

Detailed Role & Responsibilities :

- Engage with Project Managers & Subject Matter Experts to gather requirements.

- Acquire an understanding of current state processes and business context

- Apply a structured project management approach and methodology

- Participate in the projects prioritization process

- Develop key program artifacts, reporting & communication plans

- Full service project management - leading & engaging in all project lifecycle phases

- Work with IT in developing & implementing appropriate technical solutions

- Develop a set of actionable and targeted change management plans, including communication plan, change implementation plan and training plan

- Manage cross functional relationships (including at the Senior Executive level) across the group

About You :

- To be successful, you will be Project Management certified or actively working towards this accreditation. You will have experience working on Projects in the financial services industry.

Technical skills and business knowledge :

- Extensive project management experience, across varied projects preferably independent handling of large projects

- Proven experience to deliver System based projects and change initiatives

- Ability to coordinate multiple assignments and work independently

- Motivate, lead and influence a project team of indirect reports

- Strong documentation skills with the ability to develop complete, accurate and unambiguous documentation of business processes

- Can do- attitude, with a proven record of delivering project outcomes

- Flexible skill set and confident approach to tackling issues

Communication skills :

- Demonstrated ability to motivate, influence and gain commitment at all levels of the organization

- Strong facilitation, oral and written communication skills. Effective presentation skills

- Strong Power Point /Process/Systems/Data Mapping skills - well developed ability to define and document processes and capture process/system/data requirements end-to-end, MS Visio skills

Client Orientation :

- Ability to build strong relationship and influence clients and stakeholders.

- Proactive approach to anticipating client needs, issues and challenges, and initiating solutions that carries through to resolution.

- Possess a strong appreciation of key business drivers and an understanding of the impact of - change- upon the business.

- Inspires loyalty and trust in others and commitment to a common vision

Leadership :

- Coach & mentor junior project team members on project management skills as well as project management practices

- Acts as promoter to create a project culture that facilitates Accelerated Project Performance.

- Manage consistent metrics for measuring project success and team performance.

- Ensures knowledge is shared with resources and promote team learning across projects.

- Further opportunities to improve processes - detect and highlight any control gaps in the process.

Experience/Certifications required :

- CA preferred. Alternately, B.Com with CPA / ICWA/ MBA Finance.

- Peer bank experience essential with good background & understanding of BFSI/Investment Banking Operations in India

- Comfortable in working with virtual teams spread across the globe

- Project Management Professional (PMP) or Prince 2 certification desirable

- Overall post-qualification experience of around 14-16 years with about 8-10 years of relevant experience in Program/Project management, regulatory projects, business process re-engineering and process transitions, preferably in the Financial Services industry