Senior Project Manager
Job Summary
GCB 4
We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as a Senior Project Manager.
Inthis role you will:
- Propose innovative ideas test and refine with colleagues and stakeholders
- Identify opportunities to bring new and efficient ways of working in the project
- Bring innovative ideas to the business solutions / engagements by keeping updated on industry trends
- Shape project direction & approach by having good comprehension of the HSBCs strategies & priorities
- Thinking commercially to identify opportunities to develop business from new/existing internal customers
- Consider impact and dependencies of the group priorities for the project and its deliverables
- Identify and quantify investment case opportunities
- Challenge business decisions based on domain knowledge and prior experience
- Articulate and design business models operating models and business case
- Manage the whole project / program independently by leading the change initiative and taking strategic decisions
- Manage senior stakeholder and sponsor relationships via effective written and verbal communications with customized approach tailored to different audience
- Design establish and maintain project governance including clear sponsorship tollgates and steering committee in accordance to Change Framework
- Manage efficient utilization of resources and project costs within allocated budget
- Independently and proactively overcome obstacles to success deal with uncertainty and changing circumstances such as interdependencies opportunities or risks
- Track & manage project progress comprehensively including scope budget timeline risks issues dependencies assumptions and benefits / outcome realization
- Proactively provide comprehensive updates taking ownership of any assigned plan for the entire team
- Design problem solving approaches and frameworks (incl. target operating models process and system transformation)
- Analyze current state design the future state validate assumptions with stakeholders to align with business requirements
- Elicit requirements refine and obtain sign off from stakeholders including managing potentially conflicting requirements
- Apply financial modelling (e.g. business case projections project financial health assessment)
- Lead design refinement to ensure compliance with requirements design & execute testing to ensure comprehensive coverage of requirements design and business scenarios Maintain requirements traceability
- Plan & execute deployment activities including ensuring completion of business readiness deployment pre-requisites post-deployment health check and sign offs
- Perform effective gap analysis to the required level of granularity based on different stakeholder needs / views. Develop and execute action plan to close the gaps assessed
- Build and maintain a reputation for reliable efficient and effective delivery of business solutions
- Manage own & teams time via workload prioritization to achieve project/program objectives in the most efficient manner
- Monitor & manage any off-track activities and bottlenecks and highlighting/escalating as required and providing solution options with cost benefit analysis
- Accelerate delivery of projects by identifying & executing simplification opportunities
- Ensure sustainable delivery at pace by maintaining teams morale energy and monitoring work velocity
To be successful you will need:
- At least 8 years of experience working in change environments across strategy design (consulting)initiation and delivery
- Industry experience in large complex organizations implementing major organisational change and business transformation projects for banking industry
- Demonstrable experience of independent stakeholder management at a senior level especially impactful communication influencing and running project governance
- Demonstrated ability to independently build maintain and navigate the organization using formal / informal networking skills
- In depth experience of working in a banking environment for operations system transformation Organization Design (incl. potentially M&A) projects
- Experienced in supporting the definition of a business problem and solutions based on data
- Excellent problem solving & analysis skills including extensive PowerPoint and Excel know-how
- Experienced in leading & executing end to end project lifecycle from initiation till closure at pace and with clear examples that project outcomes were achieved.
- Proficiency in knowledge of consulting and Change Frameworks Agile methodologies Waterfall methodologies and best practices
- Strong understanding of banking / HSBC and how change drives benefits for HSBC its customers and other stakeholders
- Extensive project management & business analysis skills and experience of managing large and complex projects
- Strong people manager and broad experience in managing large teams of different work streams
- All-rounder expert in Implementation change management and benefits realization
- Cantonese/Mandarin language skills is highly beneficial
- Plus point if certified in one or more of the following; Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) Project Management Professional (PMP) Prince2 Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or any relevant qualifications
About Company
HSBC Holdings plc is a British multinational investment bank and financial services holding company. It was the 7th largest bank in the world by 2018, and the largest in Europe, with total assets of US$2.558 trillion.