Position Purpose
The Project Manager role resides within the Change & Transformation team under the Client Delivery Division of BNP Paribas Securities Services (BP2S). The Change Team services internal BNP Paribas Securities teams (Client Services, Back & Middle Office operations, Financial Reporting & Tax, Product and Transitions), clients, regulators and partners with external vendors.
The role will require a motivated, results focused person that has excellent project management and communication skills (both written and verbal). Must be interpersonal, deal with different levels of stakeholders, a quick learner and confident dealing with all matters; Business domain, IT, Product, Risk, Compliance, Legal and Global Governance.
The role of the Project Manager is to engage in, support and deliver on:
- Client / Business change projects
- Emerging new business initiatives / projects
- Internal/external technical change programs
- Various continuous improvement programs
The position requires the Project Manager to:
- Analyse, plan, execute, monitor and deliver Business and/or IT projects
- Establish and agree scope, cost, schedule, resourcing with awareness to strategic objectives
- Implement appropriate status reporting and communication plan
- Lead multi-disciplined teams uniting them in purpose across different jurisdictions
- Plan and manage multiple and concurrent work streams across one or more projects
- Be risk aware and meet compliance mandates ensuring protection of business operations
- Secure business operational readiness, IT handover and attestations prior to go-live
- Respect and assist the wider project community including contribution to best practices
Responsibilities
Client Interaction:
- Establish trust and confidence in BNPP by clients through confident and competent management of client stakeholders
- Collaborate closely with the client development team to ensure unified client management practices
- Attend and chair (where required) client specific meetings – Steering committees, working groups, change forums, planning sessions, etc.
- Foster a strong and robust client relationship
Project Management:
- Project planning, management, quality, control and benefits realization
- Direct and indirect management of project resources as required
- Manage project risks and issues reporting
- Act as an escalation point for work stream issues, stakeholders and project sponsor
- Map, manage and communicate project interdependencies and impacts
- Manage all change requests through a formally defined change management process
- Ensure deliverables are measurable and tracked
- Ensure the project is delivered on time and within budget
- Manage clear and effective communications to team members and stakeholders
- Build strong working relationships with stakeholders to gain an in-depth understanding of business processes, an end-to-end understanding of operating models including IT system flow
- Drive operational efficiency across all program activities and solutions
- Undertake quality reviews of project deliverables to ensure they meet business needs and requirements, and adhere to the methodology, standards, and strategy
- Preparation of Steering Committee papers and reporting to the local management team and other relevant business and client forums
- Ensuring the project team complies with relevant BP2S project management methodologies, audit, security and compliance requirements (BP2S currently uses Agile and Waterfall methodologies)
- Flexibility may be required in terms of working hours due to the fact that regular contact with the UK or Paris will be required
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