Banking Operations Transformation Lead

SGS Société Générale de Surveillance SA; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Societe Generale is seeking a Project Manager in its Transformation, Project and Organization team. You will lead end-to-end transformations, engage stakeholders across functions, and define governance for timely, within-budget delivery.

The role focuses on delivering measurable outcomes, managing risks, and driving standardization and automation across the project lifecycle in a global setting.

Qualifications

• Graduate degree in technology, finance, business administration or economics.
• PMP or equivalent project management qualification is a plus.
• Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification with project experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end transformations from scoping through delivery and post mortem.
• Engage stakeholders across Management, Business, IT, Operations, Compliance, Legal and Risk.
• Define project methodology and governance for effective execution.
• Document objectives and requirements—functional, technical, operational.
• Balance client satisfaction, risk, value creation and speed to delivery.
• Establish execution strategy including delivery approach, testing and migration.
• Own delivery and proactively manage uncertainties, dependencies and risks.
• Ensure on-time, on-budget delivery of all workstreams.
• Collaborate with Global Teams to align regional with global roadmap.
• Interface with Security, Data, and Infrastructure SMEs to meet SG standards.
• Provide clear reporting on progress, blockers and decisions.
• Continuously assess health and refine ways of working.
• Identify opportunities for process simplification, standardization and automation.
• Lead process improvement initiatives (Lean Six Sigma where applicable).
• Monitor KPIs: risk, cost, timeline across lifecycle.
• Oversee post-rollout stabilization and sustainable adoption.

Skills

Client Orientation

Proactive mindset

Big picture thinking

Result orientation

Can-do mindset

Documentation discipline

Execution momentum

Change management

Clear communication

Project lifecycle

Planning and organization

Risk and issue management

Conflict resolution

Trade lifecycle knowledge

Process re-engineering (6-Sigma)

Data analysis (Excel, SQL)

Power BI familiarity

Visio / MS Project / Jira

Education

Graduate degree in technology, finance, business administration or economics

Tools

Excel

SQL

Power BI

Visio

MS Project

Jira

Job description

Societe Generale is seeking a Project Manager in its Transformation, Project and Organization team. You will lead end-to-end transformations, engage stakeholders across functions, and define governance for timely, within-budget delivery.

The role focuses on delivering measurable outcomes, managing risks, and driving standardization and automation across the project lifecycle in a global setting.