Senior PMO Manager

Stellenbeschreibung

Aufgaben

• Lead the planning, execution and delivery of strategic projects across functions
• Coordinate across functions and locations in relation to project, process, and systems implementation, looking to align wherever possible, leaving with stakeholders on achievable benefits, resource, and desired outcome
• Conduct analysis and reviews related to project work and project/system/implementation as required
• Provide project management support including planning, scoping and re-scoping, resource management, risk identification and management, ensuring appropriate standards of work, coordination of resource and work, and making sure that the project delivers the expected outcomes and benefits
• Implement and embed the Bank's Change Management Standard across assigned projects, ensuring that governance documentation and control requirements are consistently met
• Support other business areas in understanding and applying change management standards, even where the PMRA is not directly allocated to the project.
• Engage with key stakeholders (including Front Office, Compliance, Risk, IT, Operations and Group teams) to ensure alignment and support
• Prepare detailed business cases, PDCs; governance submissions and regular progress reports for senior leadership and Steering Committees
• Drive adoption of solutions across business lines and functions to ensure alignment with strategic objectives
• Manage and assess with stakeholders implementation of new systems/applications or developments to existing systems/applications
• Manage and assist with analysis and implementation of new processes or developments to existing processes
• Analyse and document existing processes, identifying opportunities for improvement, automation and operational efficiencies
• Define and manage the operating strategy for projects, including functional testing and User Acceptance testing (UAT)
• Facilitate workshops and stakeholder communications across regions
• Manage project risks, dependencies, budgets and resource planning, ensuring proactive mitigation strategies are in place and well socialised.
• Ensure compliance with UK and cross border banking regulations and Group GRCs
• Collaborate with IT teams to ensure integration of IT changes and solutions across IT platforms
• Assess the business lines organisational readiness for specific change, supporting the Business Owner and Accountable Executive in preliminary tasks and reporting output in line with change control procedures
• Coordinate ad-hoc improvement work as directed by line manager cross-departmentally, and Group-wide, liaising with stakeholders to active benefits realisation, resources, and desired outcome
• Ensure change is successfully embedded and support those impacted by change by ensuring teams have effective, measurable and owned change management plans.
• Support project closure activities, tracking to completion where appropriate
• Act as a hybrid PMO, managing project governance and timelines while also capturing business requirements and working with IT teams to instil their technical specification;
• Define and manage the operating strategy for projects, including functional testing and User Acceptance testing (UAT)
• Keep up to date with best practice developments in your field
• Contribute ideas and views to strengthen ongoing business and operational success.
• Adhere to policies regarding Conduct Rules and regulatory obligations.
• Adhere to policies and procedures regarding data protection and adhere to the Bank's values in all activities and support colleagues to do so.
• Follow the Bank's values and actively drive personal career and development plans to suit
• Stay aware of internal strategy and actively drive a 'one team' approach by respecting dependencies across departments and locations
• Support a 'tone from the top' approach to risk management

Anforderungen

• The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of private banking, a robust understanding of cross-border requirements and a proven track record of delivering high-impact transformational projects.

Verantwortung im Rahmen des Risikomanagements

• Carry out your job in line with the Bank's Risk Management Framework and associated Policies, Standards and Procedures, including the detailed responsibilities relevant to your function set in the Three Lines of Defence Standard
• Own, manage and mitigate the risks within your function, generated by the activities under your responsibility and those that report to you (when applicable)
• Maintaining and executing

Wir bieten

Projekte

• Strategic implementation
• TOM Optimisation
• Business process improvement
• Regulatory compliance
• Risk management