Location: PAN India (Any Location), India
Job Location: Remote
Job Description:
Job Purpose:
The Project Manager is responsible for the end-to-end delivery of technology and transformation projects with business, operational, regulatory or customer impact.
The role ensures that assigned projects are established with clear outcomes, baselines,governance and accountabilities, and are delivered within approved scope, schedule,quality and budget. The Project Manager proactively manages risks, issues, dependencies, vendors, resources, change and stakeholder expectations, while ensuring compliance with Company project Methods and enabling realization of approved business benefits.
Key Result Areas:
A. Establish and Mobilize the Project
- Confirm project objectives, scope, success measures, approved business case and expected benefits.
- Establish the project organization, roles, responsibilities, governance forums, Terms of Reference, decision rights and escalation paths.
- Set up project repositories, controls, reporting standards, RAID logs, decision logs and change logs.
- Mobilize business, technology, operations, control-function, vendor and partner resources.
- Develop the integrated project management plan and formally baseline scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, dependencies, risks and benefits.
- Prepare and execute the formal project kick-off.
B. Manage Project Delivery
- Coordinate the project team and delivery across business, technology, operations, architecture, risk, security, compliance, procurement, finance, testing and vendors.
- Run governance forums and provide clear, accurate and timely reporting to sponsors and stakeholders.
- Monitor and control scope and requirements and execute the approved change-control process.
- Maintain and control the integrated schedule, critical path, milestones and cross-project dependencies.
- Manage architecture and design governance, including Design Authority decisions where applicable.
- Monitor and control resources, capacity, budget, forecast and financial commitments.
- Manage the approved business case, delivery assumptions and benefit-enablement commitments.
- Manage vendors and suppliers, including Statements of Work, contractual obligations, deliverables, timelines, service quality and commercial performance.
- Proactively manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, decisions and escalations through to closure.
- Ensure compliance with Company project Methods, mandatory artefacts, control gates and assurance requirements.
- Ensure appropriate testing, operational readiness, implementation, migration, reconciliation, cutover and handover plans are established and executed.
- Drive resolution of delivery blockers and implement recovery plans when performance deviates from approved baselines.
C. Stakeholder and Team Leadership
- Build trusted working relationships with the Project Sponsor, business and technology owners, Group leadership, control functions and delivery partners.
- Create transparency on project performance, material risks, trade-offs, decisions required and expected outcomes.
- Coordinate and motivate multidisciplinary teams, clarify accountabilities and hold workstream owners accountable for delivery commitments.
- Manage conflicts, competing priorities and stakeholder expectations, escalating matters that cannot be resolved within the project.
- Support project team members in the disciplined application of company Methods.
D. Implementation, Benefits and Closure
- Ensure implementation and production-readiness criteria are satisfied before go-live recommendations are made.
- Coordinate transition to operations and confirm ownership of residual actions, risks and support arrangements.
- Work with accountable business owners to confirm that benefits, baselines, ownership and realization timelines are recorded and tracked.
- Conduct retrospectives, capture lessons learned and preserve reusable artefacts for future delivery and estimation calibration.
- Complete formal project closure, including financial, contractual, governance, documentation and resource closure requirements.
Knowledge, Skills & Experience:
- At least 10 years of relevant professional experience, including experience managing technology and transformation projects; banking or financial-services experience is preferred.
- Demonstrated end-to-end delivery of medium-to-large technology projects with material budgets, multiple stakeholders, internal and external delivery parties, and multidisciplinary teams.
- Strong practical knowledge of project establishment, planning, baselining, governance, financial control, RAID and dependency management, vendor management, testing, implementation, migration, reconciliation, operational readiness and closure.
- Demonstrated ability to address delivery challenges and drive execution against approved scope, schedule, quality and budget.
- Strong stakeholder-management, negotiation, conflict-resolution, organizational, analytical, communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to establish effective relationships across business, technology, control functions, business and technology stakeholders, vendors and delivery partners.
- Experience in banking, financial services, consulting or a complex technology environment is an advantage.
- Bachelor’s degree in technology, engineering, business, finance or a related discipline.
- PMP, PRINCE2 or equivalent project-management certification is preferred.
Required Skills
- Project Manager for Control Reset Programme 10 0
- banking or financial-services 10 0
- RAID 10 0
- Vendor Management 10 0
- stakeholder-management 10 0
- project-management 10 0