Strategy & Projects Manager
£44,000 - £55,000+ (dependant on Experience) + Bonus + Benefits + subsidised restaurant, PHI
City
THE COMPANY
They are an expanding bank with an excellent reputation and a strong collegiate culture and friendly and team orientated working environment. Despite the pandemic they continue to be profitable. They are currently undergoing a change the bank process and this a new role created as part of that ongoing process.
SKILLS EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in the financial services industry and banking products and services (desirable);
- Proven track record of strategic thinking, leading projects and managing change;
- Evidence of overseeing change where change was successful;
- Expertise in project management methodologies and associated reporting e.g. Prince2 / PMP, APM, Agile, Lean, Six Sigma etc would be an advantage;
- Excellent MS Office skills, particularly Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint;
- Experienced in dealing with internal and external Legal, Compliance and Audit departments;
- High degree of self-efficacy, pragmatic, willing and able to get hands dirty
- Demonstrable experience of influencing business leadership teams, strategic thinking and prioritization;
- Candidate should ideally be educated to degree standard;
- Project management qualification is desirable e.g. APM Project Professional Qualification (PPQ), Prince2 practitioner
THE ROLE
Reporting to the Banking Chief Operating Officer (COO), the Strategy & Projects Manager will be responsible for supporting the COO in developing strategy and leading projects for the department. This will include ensuring that the department has a clearly communicated strategy; tracking progress against strategy for internal stakeholders[; delivering benefits for the banking department through new processes, systems or ways of working; setting the department up for success with pro-active steps taken to make improvements and providing assurance for stakeholders that projects are being driven forward and the agreed benefits will be delivered. Specifically:
Strategy
- Support the COO with the development of departmental strategy
- Lead on the presentation and communication of strategy with clear objectives and develop templates to track progress / report performance
- Explore and research the market to identify potential strategic opportunities whether acquisitions or new products or thematic change
- Apply strategic theory /models to assess and priorities initiatives including:
- Cost / benefit analysis, applying different scenario / sensitivities
- business impact and risk assessment with appropriate mitigations
- Work closely with other departments to understand developments in regulation, or technology to ensure the department remains abreast of change.
Lending Interface Project
- Lead the department's new lending user interface project to automate and enhance end to end lending processes
- Own & approve business design and requirements, delivery road map, sprint goals and outputs, as well as any change to this scope
- Provide guidance to the wider delivery team, hosting a weekly working group to monitor progress and provide direction on issues as and when they arise
- Work with the project manager to ensure stakeholders are well informed of progress with presentations at the monthly Lending SteerCo meetings
- Work with the Banking Change team to oversee business readiness
Other Projects
- Represent the department on a series of bank-wide projects
- Drive change within the department by challenging the status quo and considering potential for commercial benefits, efficiencies or risk mitigation.
- Streamline the process for portfolio reviews (Anti-money laundering reviews, customer exposure reviews and relationship reviews) to achieve efficiencies through smart sequencing logic and integration within a Managers dashboard
- Leverage technology (such as robotics) to achieve efficiencies
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