Vice President - PMO - Financial Services Domain

Salary : 35.00 - 40.00 LPA

Job Description:

Detailed Role & Responsibilities:

Project Management - including Business Analysis & Execution:

- Apply a structured project management approach and methodology

- Define Project charter including project success measures

- Support and engage senior leaders and manage stakeholders

- Participates in the projects prioritization process

- Identifies and establishes key objectives and milestones for new projects

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

- Identify, analyze and prepare mitigation tactics for risk Identifies and establishes key objectives and milestones

- Process - mapping, documentation, process data analytics. Ability to quickly understand complex processes and create process/data-flow/systems maps

- Systems - architecture mapping, requirements documentation, Functional specification documentation, system testing and support throughout subsequent parallel runs

- Ability to anticipate and identify potential problems and demonstrate a proven track record in doing RCA and solving complex and ambiguous issues

- Conduct readiness assessments, evaluate results and present findings in a logical and easy-to-understand manner

- Identify resistance and performance gaps, and work to develop and implement corrective actions

- Test Manager - Finance and Regulatory projects :

- Responsible and accountable for the development of the project Test Strategy

- Delivery of all test phases and testing outcomes across the project

- Facilitate regular project testing progress status reviews

- Ensure that all test resource requirements (people, infrastructure and environments) are planned and managed

- Ensure appropriate controls are placed around the test environments i.e. in support of security, supportability and recovery

- Ensure that all estimates for resources / effort / timelines are supported with robust assumptions and metrics

- Develop and manage testing schedule, critical path, contentions and inter-dependencies

- Leadership & Process improvements:

- Responsible for defining program strategies and developing goals.

- Coaches 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.

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

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

- Drive time-bound Process Excellence(PEx)/deep-dive projects, that will get identified

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

- Implements quality assurance practices to ensure accuracy, quality and timeliness of his/her output.

Skills & competency required:

Mandatory Skills (People management/technical skills) :

- Prior experience of handling teams, including direct responsibility for their appraisal, performance management and work allocation

- Competence in leading by example, working cooperatively and communicating openly to create a positive, cohesive team

- Be a self-starter who can work well both independently with minimal supervision and as a team, and is capable of utilizing the GFS management team as a sounding board for ideas related to application of various aspects of the role

- Previous experience in the Financial Services industry is essential; background in accounting / banking or Finance Processes would be ideal

- Sound understanding of the business and products space of investment banks including derivatives/equities/fixed instruments/infrastructure/funds, etc.

- Good knowledge of banking applications such as TM1/Axiom/ICE, etc., experience in handling/leading large banking implementation/change projects impacting multiple teams

Technical skills and business knowledge:

- Program/Project management skills

- Experienced in leading and implementing operational and- business changes.

- Proven track record of financial results from the application of process improvement methodologies, and effective change management.

- Highly developed analytical, quantitative and data analysis aptitude.

- Skilled in methodologies such as workout, kaizen, Lean, DMAIC, DMADV, ACFC & DFSS

- Tenacity and Problem solving

- High attention to detail.

- Ability to anticipate and identify potential problems and demonstrate a proven track record in solving complex and ambiguous issues.

- Flexibility, tenacity and the ability to maintain enthusiasm on long-running or difficult process re-design initiatives.

- Flexible skillset and confident approach to tackling issues.

- Can do- attitude, with a proven record of delivering within a project team.

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

Team Orientation

- Competence in leading by example, working cooperatively and communicating openly to create a positive, cohesive team

- Committed to employee engagement and a passion for operational excellence

- Be a self starter who can work well both independently with minimal supervision and as a team, and is capable of utilizing the GFS management team as a sounding board for ideas related to application of various aspects of the role

Good to have :

- Prior experience of working in large multinational banks with globally spread teams will be preferred

- Degree qualification in Information Technology (IT) or Data Management Certification (CDP/CDMP) would be good to have though not mandatory

Experience/Certifications required:

- CA is preferred. Alternate could be B Com with CPA / ICWA/ MBA Finance.

- Peer bank experience must with good understanding of BFSI / iBank Ops space in India

- Sound knowledge of the Financial/Banking Services industry - BFSI / iBank Ops space in India

- Good Business Analysis and Test management experience especially in the context of finance projects

- Working knowledge of Six Sigma tools and methodologies including DMAIC, Lean, Kaizen, and Workout tools, problem solving / root cause analysis and process management

- Some amount of Project Management experience with stakeholder management skills

- Excellent communication experience

- Migrations, Six sigma project experience a bonus

- Transition management experience is a good to have

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

- Overall post-qualification experience of around 14-16 years with about - 7-8 years of relevant experience in Program/Project management, transformation initiatives (e.g. operating model/process architecture design), business process reengineering, quality/process improvement initiatives and process transitions, preferably in the Financial Services industry,

- Possesses decent levels of comfort in dealing with information technology.

- Possesses high degree of comfort working in high paced ambiguous environment.

- Very strong MS Office, MS project & Visio skills

- Willingness for travel and work in different time zones to support clients