Role Title: Senior Project Manager Reporting

Business: Risk

New or Existing Role: Replacement

Grade: GCB4

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Global Risk is a thriving and expert risk management function supporting HSBC globally with all aspects of risk management. The team actively manages a varied and dynamic range of risk types, including security, fraud, information security, contingency, geopolitical, operational, credit, pension, insurance, financial crime and regulatory compliance, market and reputation risks. All parts of the Global Risk team use their skills, insight and integrity to handle established threats and those they see emerging, acting to protect and enable HSBC to deliver sustainable growth.

We are currently seeking an ambitious individual to join our team as a Senior Project Manager Reporting, working together with colleagues to define, manage and achieve divisional business targets.

Role Purpose

Global Risk Transformation Senior Project Managers plan, mobilise and direct projects of high complexity and scale from project definition to closure. They are responsible for the end to end planning and delivery of one or more projects proactively balancing scope, schedule, budget, risks, team, outcomes and benefits. Projects can be standalone or form part of a programme.  They are responsible for deploying Transformation Project Management Framework and other Transformation Business Transformation Frameworks (BTF) within their project. They work closely with the Programme Manager and Global Portfolio Management Office to ensure alignment of their project with the wider change portfolio and the Group Strategy, Values and Behaviours.

Senior Project Managers will often play a people / team management role within the projects / programmes they work on.  As members of the Risk Transformation management team, they will also have line management responsibility for a group of more junior resources within their resource pool (as related to their job family).

In this role, you will:

• Plan effectively around delivery constraints and optimises the plan to maximise benefits and minimise risk.  Develops the plan within constraints, considering the delivery approach, key milestones and dependencies within the plan, requirements and scope, effort and resources, budgets and quality.
• Ensure the baselined scope, requirements, benefits, schedule and budget are managed as outlined in Business Transformation Frameworks. Identifies and intervenes where there is slippage and variance from plan.
• Plan and analyse costs, tracking operating and capital spend, and tracks reporting to financial business case commitments.
• Oversee the tracking of project/s risks/issues/dependencies, assesses the impact on the benefit realisation for the project/s and takes action to minimise impact, actively challenging and removing obstacles.
• Influence and collaborate with stakeholder and business partners to drive the right project outcomes. Represents the project team at discussions regarding project prioritisation and to create buy-in for risk mitigation and contingency plans.
• Obtain sponsor and stakeholder buy in to plans, key commitments and changes against baseline as they arise.
• Obtain sponsor and stakeholder sign-off for deliverables, formally closes project, assesses stakeholder satisfaction and captures feedback. Captures key learns from each project and feeds back into Global Risk Transformation methodologies and best practice.

Qualifications

To be successful in the role, you should meet the following requirements:

• Excellent understanding of the project lifecycle.
• Excellent understanding of Global Risk Transformation Business Transformation Frameworks and best practice techniques.
• Extensive project management skills and experience of managing large and complex projects.
• Strong people manager and broad experience in managing large teams of different work streams.
• Multiple strong examples of the delivery of on time and on budget projects that achieve business case stated outcomes – a driver with bias towards delivery at pace and controlling project outcomes.
• PMP certification.

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