Project Manager - Investment banking products

##### Project description

Our client (leading investment bank) is investing significantly in digital transformation to improve our productivity, client and employee experience and creating capacity to reinvest in incremental growth activities. The Digital Channel Solutions Business is part of Transaction Banking supporting digital channels and data solutions for Corporate, Institutional and SME Clients. The Project Manager reports to the Senior Product Lead in India and has a matrix reporting line to Head, Straight2Bank Access. This role will be working closely with the Chief Product Owners, Product Owners, Hive Delivery Leads and Risk teams to ensure timely and effective delivery of a Data Quality Risk Remediation initiative. This initiative is key to meeting the Bank’s regulatory commitments. The Project Manager will play a pivotal role in managing the full project lifecycle, ensuring delivery aligns with both regulatory obligations and strategic business priorities.

##### Responsibilities

• Project Management and Governance
• Manage the full project lifecycle of the project and coordinate with all relevant stakeholders across business and technology (as well as relevant support functions) ensuring milestones are met
• Partner with relevant stakeholders, to ensure adherence to Bank standards and governance framework
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project artefacts including Project plans, RAID logs, Delivery plans and general updates to stakeholders
• Prepare materials and facilitate the weekly meetings including Working Group and Steerco meetings, ensuring timeliness, accuracy and relevance of data
• Identify and proactively manage project risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies, escalating as required
• Coordinate with risk and issue owners to regularly reassess residual risks and mitigation plans
• Ensure Clarity (the Enterprise tool for program/project monitoring and reporting) is up to date including RAG status, key milestones, financials, risks, issues
• Encourage and enforce high standards of quality, accuracy and consistency in all project and programme logs, trackers and reporting materials.
• Drive formal handover to BAU including the formal programme closure when required
• Financial Management
• Collaborate with PMO and other relevant teams to ensure accurate project forecasting and actuals
• Track and validate recharges, third party spend and internal resource allocations
• Support financial governance by ensuring variances are monitored and reported
• Support the Project Initiative owner in meeting the programme’s financial commitments in each year and over the life of the programme.
• Stakeholder Management
• Build and maintain strong, positive relationships with stakeholders across functions
• Ensure regular and transparent communication of project progress, risks and key decisions
• Engage stakeholders to align on priorities and resolve issues collaboratively
• Drives team members toward delivering on their commitments
• Effectively manage difficult interpersonal situations and drive consensus where needed
• Regulatory & Business Conduct
• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

##### Skills

Must have

• 10+ years of experience in Capital Market as Project Manager
• Change Management Certifications: Prosci, Kotter, ADKAR etc
• Project management: SAFe, Agile, Waterfall, PMP, PRINCE2 etc
• Tools: Clarity, ADO, Confluence, ServiceNow
• Ability to manage geographically dispersed and highly varied client and stakeholder base
• Interpersonal skills in networking, influencing and decision taking
• Analytic, problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Good presentation, time management, negotiation and influencing skills
• Excellent written & oral communication skills
• Can work independently to strict timeframes
• Focused, organised and results-oriented
• Experience of working with senior stakeholders. Ability to influence senior staff and offshore shared services teams and drive change agenda
• Assertive, tenacious, and willing to challenge when required
• Ability to interpret regulatory commitments and risk action plans
• Demonstrates good technical and/or business understanding to manage project effectively

Nice to have

• Exposure to risk-related initiatives is a plus

##### Other

• Languages

English: C2 Proficient

• Seniority

Senior