SSBI IT Change The Bank (CTB) Project Manager

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Purpose of Role

• In order for SSBI IT Technology Services to manage and oversee its multiple commitments to improving the Delivery and Change environment, the role of GTS SSBI IT Project Manager at VP grade exists.
• The GTS SSBI IT Project Manager will be responsible for coordinating, managing, and delivering a suite of projects within the SSBI IT portfolio, and developing a controlled and coordinated overall project management environment.

This will include oversight and reporting of various internal and external projects, ensuring fit for purpose IT developments, detailed analysis, planning and managing of the projects’ risk profile.

A key element of the role will be managing multiple dependencies across various SSBI IT teams in order to ensure delivery of requirements ·

Key to the role will be the development of clear plans, defined ownership and accountability of actions and deliverables, managed to aggressive and immovable timelines.

Critical interfaces (typically at Steering Committee-level) will be with State Street business SMEs, internal SSBI IT dependencies, and State Street FLOD / SLOD and Compliance.

This will require thorough MI, pertinent analysis, precise status reporting, and frequent, comprehensive management briefing presentations covering the projects .

Summary description of the role :

Manage the SSBI IT Projects. Manage the IT Change in SSBI IT projects; oversee execution, analyse requirements and impact, and the validation of deliverables.

Management of projects including capacity and budget management

Perform day-to-day business control and oversight functions for SSBI IT projects.

Collate, define, and analyse the multiple IT demand pipelines end-to-end. Condense this into clear, actionable remediation tasks, reconcile, and ensure comprehensive plans are produced to execute against for the projects

Oversee the various individual initiatives and projects, identify, track and manage risks and issues, ensure dependencies are clearly captured, and ensure ownership and actions are clearly defined and not duplicated across projects or workstreams

Manage budget and staffing forecasting, tracking and reporting requirements, produce clear Dashboard reporting including Project Reporting of overall deliverables, interdependencies, and critical path analysis

Ensure governance of the projects adheres to corporate standards, including Change Management Framework

Own reporting requirements to program manager and program sponsors, including frequent ad hoc, short notice, and tailored reporting demands for GTS-related change projects

Liaise between various SSBI IT PMs, and coordinate consensus on all project plans, status, and risk tracking

Responsibilities will include :

Ensure appropriate oversight and management of SSBI IT projects, with particular emphasis on the governance of regulatory projects.

Develop, refine and manage appropriate Management Information reporting for projects

Chair multiple project workstream-level oversight and execution calls. Communicate project to management, on a regular basis, and at short notice / ad hoc as required

Report issues, identify risks and challenges, manage and mitigate delays with the business, work closely with regional project managers and business leads to deliver accurate and timely project reporting, financial forecasting, tracking and reporting, produce clear Dashboard reporting

Actively manage the delivery of target dates and project milestones so that deadlines are met and projects remain on target

Resolve issues, decision-making and ownership of remediation / path to green. Generate creative and innovative solutions to complex problems

Serve as an escalation point, and point of contact for business teams in their engagements with assigned projects and SSBI IT book of work overall

Skill Set

Influencing skills across a number of 3rd party dependencies

Excellent initiative, planning and decision-making skills

Developed communication and presentation skills

Project Management, incl. multiple dependencies

Collaboration across multiple stakeholders to achieve a common goal

Solid communication, analytical, and organizational skills

Excellent influencing skills required

Strong reporting, and presentation skills

Ability to work under pressure, high attention to detail

Qualifications

Solid (6 years +) experience in project management

Solid (6 years +) experience managing change across multiple business units

Previous IT, or business change experience background preferable

Knowledge and proven experience of managing multi-workstream improvement or remediation project.

Relevant qualifications preferable (i.e. PRINCE 2, PMP etc.) or in-process of retaining certifications