Program Management
- Drive the overall end-to-end program management across data and finance from planning to execution and delivery.
- Partner with stakeholders across Finance, Data and Business units to align priorities, manage dependencies, and ensure successful outcomes
- Drive the data, design and solution discussions with vendor, technology team and user groups.
- Direct project team of internal and/or external resources to deliver results within agreed parameters.
Project Governance
- Ensure proper governance and impact assessment of scope creep and change requests.
- Organize and chair governance meetings, including preparation of meeting materials and minutes.
- Ensure work deliverables are in compliance with bank policies and regulatory requirements.
- Measure, monitor and report progress to stakeholders
Scope Management
- Manage all changes to the agreed scope of work
- Review and assess changes and impact to timeline & cost
- Ensure all changes are approved
Risk and Issue Management
- Identify and raise risks and issues affecting the project, including financial or operation and proactively managing them, with timely escalation to relevant parties where necessary.
- Drive the testing strategy and manage the testing cycles, ensuring all critical and high defects are resolved within the testing cycle.
Stakeholder Management
- Manage relationships across all business lines and with external parties, ensuring timely delivery of assigned activities.
Requirements
- Project Manager with over 10+ years of experience leading cross-functional teams and delivering complex projects
- End to End financial / Banking project implimentation
- Enterprise budgeting/ financial Consolidation
- Solid understanding of project management principles, with hands-on experience in both SDLC and Agile methodologies
- Skilled in data management and financial systems, with knowledge of system integration and reporting
- Familiar with accounting standards and regulatory requirements, especially in finance-related projects
- Proficient in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and Project for planning, tracking, and reporting
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with proven ability to build effective relationships across business and technical teams
- Highly organized with experience managing multiple stakeholders in large, matrixed environments
- Confident in presenting to senior leadership and diverse audiences
- Passionate, diligent, and resilient, with the ability to work through ambiguity and deliver under pressure
- PMP certification preferred