Lead Project Manager - Regulatory Projects

Overview

Lead Project Manager for Regulatory Change Initiatives, responsible for managing the Business Solutions & Enablement team within the I&P CIB Front Office COO group, including team performance, deliveries and functional oversight.

What you'll do

• Independently manage and execute end-to-end delivery of key projects across the COO organization.
• Lead or participate in larger efforts to independently manage sub-program components of high complexity within change management, and contribute to project plans and budgets.
• Translate regulatory requirements into actionable business, process and technology changes.
• Translate business problems and regulatory requirements into requirements, process flows, current/future-state designs, acceptance criteria and implementation outcomes.
• Manage initiatives involving both technology and process change, working across Business, Operations, Technology, Compliance, Legal, Risk and other relevant functions.
• Drive plans, dependencies, risks, issues and decisions with a high degree of ownership and accountability.
• Work with multidisciplinary and geographically dispersed teams in a matrix environment, influencing stakeholders without direct reporting relationships.
• Review and analyze moderately complex business organizational systems to anticipate change impacts and set comprehensive engagement strategies.
• Analyze or resolve resource requirements, project dependencies, planning, financials management, status reporting, communications, risk adaptation, escalation and implementation.
• Collaborate and consult with project coordinators, business partners, project staff, stakeholders and project leads in times of highly unusual or complex ambiguity.
• Lead matrix management of other project managers and project coordinators.
• Actively participate in global team discussions, hiring activities, and projects/process enhancement plans, and encourage creative thinking amongst the team.
• Identify opportunities for increasing operational efficiencies, perform root cause analysis, and propose ideas that improve front-to-back processing across businesses.
• Partner with teams to operationalize regulatory adherence, implement process controls and solve key issues and needs.
• Assist in projects on data interfaces between systems, including defining project scope, data requirements and sources/resources; participate in data cleanups, process improvement analysis and reporting.
• Lead and partner with multiple senior stakeholders to execute transformational change initiatives with organization-wide impact, and provide guidance on risk management and change interventions.
• Measure the impact of change initiatives on the business to inform future change strategy.
• Ensure key risk governance is monitored efficiently per policies and procedures; lead analysis of monitoring and oversight data and recommend opportunities to strengthen risk and compliance monitoring.
• Ensure operational practices follow relevant risk standards, policies and regulations; partner with stakeholders to escalate risks and respond to issues of non-compliance.
• Collaborate with operational risk teams to log and monitor Issues and Corrective Actions, and implement changes to risk assessment processes, tools or technologies.

What you'll need

• 5+ years of Project Management and Methodologies, Strategic Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.
• 5+ years of experience in one or a combination of business analysis, project management, change management, implementation, business operations or strategic planning in financial services, demonstrated through work or military experience.
• 5+ years of CIB domain Regulatory Compliance Transformation experience.
• Strong understanding of CIB products and trade life cycle.
• Ability to work with stakeholders to interpret requirements, present options for meeting needs, and develop solutions to their satisfaction.
• Ability to convert business problem statements into cost effective, scalable, reliable and user-friendly solutions.
• Good understanding of external trends impacting the function, and ability to guide others to consider implications and adapt.
• Ability to lead meetings, drive agendas forward and empower decisions.
• Strong problem-solving ability.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with ability to tailor communications to the intended audience.
• Ability to lead multiple high-risk or high-impact global CIB projects, navigate critical challenges, maximize capacity, and provide oversight and guidance on complex initiatives.

Nice to have

• Prior experience as a Business Analyst and/or Project Manager within regulatory or transformation programs.
• Experience within Corporate & Investment Banking or another complex regulated financial-services environment.
• Demonstrable experience delivering initiatives requiring business, process, data and technology change.
• Experience working with global and cross-functional teams across multiple disciplines and geographies.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad
• Shift timing: 1:30 PM IST till 10:30 PM IST