Consultant Specialist

HSBC; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

HSBC is seeking an experienced Consultant Specialist (GCB 5.1) to lead complex banking projects in India. You will manage end-to-end project lifecycles, coordinate with vendors, and drive governance, risk, and regulatory alignment across multi-market programs.

You will engage with senior stakeholders, deliver timely status reports, and steer change adoption to realize benefits for the bank and customers. The role requires 8+ years of PM experience in financial services and strong collaboration

Qualifications

• 8+ years of project management experience in banking/financial institutions.
• In-depth understanding of the project lifecycle and change adoption techniques.
• Hands-on experience in agile frameworks and tools such as Clarity, JIRA, MS Project, and Confluence.
• Strong retail banking knowledge and understanding of how change drives benefits for bank and customers.
• Ability to interact with senior stakeholders and drive decisions.
• Excellent problem solving and time management in fast-paced environments.
• Proficient in financial and budget management and governance.

Responsibilities

• Produce a well-defined project plan with milestones, responsibilities, and resources.
• Create detailed plans with low-level activities and owners, tracking progress.
• Provide timely project status reports and escalate risks/dependencies with mitigation plans.
• Maintain change control and governance through change requests.
• Build positive stakeholder relationships and obtain buy-in from key stakeholders.
• Ensure project quality and drive adoption to realize benefits.
• Lead governance/assurance activities with business, legal, regulatory teams.
• Coordinate with internal and external vendors for flawless execution and escalate risks when needed.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Agile / Scrum

Change adoption

Problem solving

Communication

Budget management

Leadership

Tools

Clarity

JIRA

MS Project

Confluence

Job description

Some Careers Shine Brighter Than Others.

If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Consultant Specialist (GCB 5.1).

In This Role, You Will

• Produce a well-defined project plan, identifying the key milestones by assigning responsibilities & resources.
• Create a detailed project plan capturing low level activities and assigning owners, tracking the progress closely.
• Provides timely reports on project status. Identify risks/issues/dependencies as they arise throughout the project lifecycle and accelerate them in the appropriate governance forums with proper mitigation plan. Maintains project change control, ensuring any changes to baseline are managed through change request.
• Collaborates and builds positive stakeholder relationships providing regular updates, obtains buy-in from all project stakeholders encompassing key project activities.
• Promotes and takes accountability for project quality; identifies opportunities to improve delivery. Manages Change Adoption to ensure the change lands well and sticks, contributing to benefits realization.
• Analyses management reports and derives insights from it to drive the right business decisions. Drive project discussions autonomously towards logical conclusion.
• Drives project governance / assurance activities (e.g. Non-Financial Risk assessment, Data control, product approvals etc. ) with business, legal, regulatory compliance, financial crime risk teams etc.
• Coordinate with internal and external third-party vendors for flawless execution of project. Escalate the risks to project delivery, budget, resourcing gaps with mitigation plan in relevant governance forums.

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

• 8+ years of experience in project management in the banking and financial institutions.
• In depth understanding of the project lifecycle. Proficient in change adoption techniques.
• In depth knowledge and experience of project execution in agile framework with extensive hands‑on experience in tools such as Clarity/ JIRA/ MS Project/ confluence etc. Strong understanding of Retail banking & how change drives benefits for bank, customers and other stakeholders.
• Mobile Journeys, Digital Banking Transformation, Mobile Platforms, Channel Management, RBW, Customer experience transformation and journey, Product Development and Management Relevant experience of working in complex retail banking projects across countries or regions.
• Ability to interact and influence senior stakeholders to drive decisions in achieving desired project outcome.
• Problem solving ability with adherence to stringent timelines in fast paced environment. Experience in project tracking (setting up project plan, managing risk and issue log, tollgates, reporting and governance).
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proficient in financial and budget management. Driving consistency & lead team/s by sharing best practices around how complex & multi market projects are defined, managed, and monitored.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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