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Key Skills: Investment Banking Operations, Project Manager, Clarity Ppm, Project Management, Retail Banking Operations, Jira, Ms Project, Agile, Confluence. Roles and Responsibilities: Produce a well-defined project plan, identifying key milestones, assigning responsibilities, and allocating resources effectively. Create and maintain a detailed project plan capturing low-level activities, assigning owners, and tracking progress closely. Provide timely reports on project status; identify risks, issues, and dependencies throughout the project lifecycle and escalate with appropriate mitigation strategies. Maintain project change control, ensuring all changes to the baseline are managed through proper change requests. Collaborate and build strong stakeholder relationships by providing regular updates and securing buy-in for key project activities. Promote and take accountability for project quality; continuously identify opportunities for improvement in delivery. Manage change adoption to ensure smooth implementation and realization of benefits. Analyze management reports and derive actionable insights to support informed decision-making. Lead project discussions independently, driving them to logical conclusions. Drive project governance and assurance activities, including non-financial risk assessments, data control, and product approvals in coordination with relevant stakeholders such as legal, compliance, and financial crime risk teams. Coordinate with internal and external third-party vendors to ensure flawless project execution. Escalate risks related to project delivery, budget, and resourcing in appropriate governance forums along with a mitigation plan. Experience Requirements: Minimum of 12 years of experience in project management within banking and financial institutions. Deep understanding of the complete project lifecycle. Proficient in change adoption methodologies and techniques. Extensive hands-on experience with project execution in an agile framework, using tools such as Clarity, JIRA, MS Project, and Confluence. Strong understanding of retail banking, particularly lending products, and how change initiatives can deliver measurable benefits for banks and customers. In-depth knowledge of banking products and propositions, including rewards and partnerships. Proven experience managing complex, multi-country retail banking projects. Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior decision-makers. Strong problem-solving ability with a proven track record of working under stringent timelines in a fast-paced environment. Experience in setting up project plans, managing risks and issues, and tracking project governance and reporting activities. Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills. Proficient in financial and budget management. Ability to drive consistency and lead teams by sharing best practices in managing complex, multi-market projects. Education: B.Tech M.Tech (Dual), B.Tech, M. Tech.
