Job Title: Assistant Vice Present – Senior Project Manager

Department: WM - Automation

About Business line/Function: WMIS – Automation

Position Purpose: 

Within the Wealth Management IT Hub Automation Division, the Senior Project Manager will manage the Program / Project, Release Management & division level transversal activities to  area of expertise (Transversal Mechanism)

Responsibilities

·       Ensures end-to-end responsibility for achieving the program / project objectives in accordance with commitments made by the business line.

·       Facilitate committees and work closely with the project team to deliver the project deliverables, prioritization, estimations, and planning.

·       Prepares, consolidates, and validates estimates and schedules throughout the project.

·       Maintain project cost without any major drift in overall project costing till end of project. Challenge user needs and provide best optimum solution within budget and capacity.

·       Planning of resourcing and capacity based on project needs.

·       Creates partnership with product owners, stakeholders, and transversal teams (security, solution architects, compliance) 

·       Assist the project team in gathering the high-level business requirements from the end users.

·       Perform analysis with squad BA and with other applications squads/teams when involved in multi-systems features and interfaces. 

·       Work with the BA and testing team to review strategy, test cases and results to ensure quality of delivery.

·       Support UAT with users and BAs (reproduce issues, monitoring, fixing with the team).

·       Vendor management along with tracking maintenance costs, budgets, and offers.

·       Ensure coherent of the tasks and commitment based on release and functionality of overall product.

·       Understand the impediments/blockers faced by the team and help the team remove those blockers. 

·       Recognizes typical as well as complex and unusual issues, and actions needed to advance the decision-making process. Recommend possible solutions.

·       Assists stakeholders in diagnosing problems and recognizing issues. Identify critical connections, consequences, and alternatives. Recognizes successful adaptations.

·       Contributes & ensures compliance with organizational governance, Secure Agile or SDLC frameworks. 

·       Provide regular update/ reporting to Division Head/Domain Head

·       Manage the release planning and management of the deliveries and update necessary tools required. Ensure transparency and adapt plans when changes occur. Prioritize tasks based on importance.

·       Manage Global Program / Project Steering committee with senior management.

·       Able to multi-task and work on multiple projects if required.

·       Ensure the good relationship with business sponsors and stakeholders at each location

·       Ensure implementation of Agile frameworks.

Direct Responsibilities

·       Strong program / project management skills.

·       Project Leadership & Governance: End-to-End Ownership: Lead complex, cross-functional projects from initiation to closure, ensuring alignment with organizational strategic objectives and group-wide policies.

·       Stakeholder Management: Act as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, senior management, and external vendors.

·       Facilitate Steering Committees and Project Boards, presenting progress, risks, and escalations with data-driven insights.

·       Planning & Execution, Scope & Roadmap Development: Define project scope, milestones, and KPIs, using Agile/Waterfall hybrid methodologies.

·       Develop detailed project charters and RACI matrices.

·       Resource Allocation: Manage budgets, timelines, cross-border teams, Optimize internal/external resources.

·       Risk & Issue Management: Proactively identify operational, financial, and regulatory risks.

·       Vendor Management: Oversee third-party vendor.

·       Reporting & Continuous Improvement, executive Reporting: Deliver monthly/quarterly reports to ExCo., Use dashboards (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) to visualize KPIs.

·       Lessons Learned & Scalability: Conduct post-mortem analyses to document successes/failures. Identify scalable solutions.

·       Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal stakeholders during various phase of the program / project.

·       Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, senior management, subject matter experts and technical teams.

·       Serves as the conduit between the customer community and the technology teams through which requirements flow.

·       Collaborate with the team’s experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.

·       Be the liaison between the business units, technology teams and support teams

Contributing Responsibilities

·       Contribute to all phases of development life cycle

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

At least 15 years of experience: 

·       Banking Industry, “hands-on” experience on Program / Project management

·       Excellent communication skills, able to spearhead Steering Committees and engage with end users and stakeholders at various levels.

·       Excellent knowledge on project planning, budgeting/estimations and conducting negotiations / arbitrations.

·       Good understanding of project lifecycles and experience in functional and technical specifications

·       Highly analytical, able to investigate, troubleshoot and determine issues at root cause.

·       Adaptability & Flexibility to work on multiple tasks.

·       Ability to collaborate / teamwork.

·       Analytical ability 

·       Excellent communication skills in English, both oral and written

·       Strong proficiency with PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Visio etc.

·       Agile Scrum methodologies

·       Program / Project management tools as well as issue and release management, production and support (JIRA, Service Now, PPM tools, etc.)

·       Good to have knowledge of Standard Core Banking systems (i.e., Olympic, TRANSACT, Corporate Actions Systems)

·       Good to have knowledge of Front Office applications (i.e., AAA ordering Tools, Client Management Tools)

·       Good to have knowledge of Transversal tool like IBM filenet – workflow, Papyrus, Document Management, other banking transversal tools.

Specific Qualifications:

·       At least 15 years of extensive experience as Program / Project Manager 

Skills Referential (Required knowledge, skills and abilities)

Technical Skills:

·       Strong knowledge of Project Management tools, Excel, Management reporting tools etc.

·       JIRA, Confluence, Release Management Tools, Microsoft Teams, Clarity, ServiceNow etc.

·       Methodology (Agile, Scrum, Waterfall etc.) 

·       Good to have exposure to applications revolving around: AAA, Olympic, TRANSACT, Client Management Systems, Datawarehouse, IBM tools, Client Advises etc.

·       IT experience: general knowledge (SQL, PL/SQL, IT Architecture principles, IT security concepts, IT Governance)

·       Organization and management of tests (SIT / Non-regression, UAT)

·       Ability to develop others & improve their skills

·       Ability to anticipate business / strategic evolution

·       Ability to manage transversal Program / Projects

Behavioral Skills: 

Leadership / Influence

Decisiveness Under Pressure

Influencing without authority

Conflict resolution

Cultural agility

Agile thinking

Ability to collaborate / Teamwork

Communication skills - oral & written

Attention to detail / rigor

Adaptability

Education Level: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent

Location: Chennai or Bengaluru

About BNP Paribas Group:

BNP Paribas is the European Union’s leading bank and key player in international banking. It operates in 65 countries and has nearly 185,000 employees, including more than 145,000 in Europe. The Group has key positions in its three main fields of activity: Commercial, Personal Banking & Services for the Group’s commercial & personal banking and several specialized businesses including BNP Paribas Personal Finance and Arval; Investment & Protection Services for savings, investment, and protection solutions; and Corporate & Institutional Banking, focused on corporate and institutional clients. Based on its strong diversified and integrated model, the Group helps all its clients (individuals, community associations, entrepreneurs, SMEs, corporates and institutional clients) to realize their projects through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings and protection insurance. In Europe, BNP Paribas has four domestic markets: Belgium, France, Italy, and Luxembourg. The Group is rolling out its integrated commercial & personal banking model across several Mediterranean countries, Turkey, and Eastern Europe. As a key player in international banking, the Group has leading platforms and business lines in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas as well as a solid and fast-growing business in Asia-Pacific. BNP Paribas has implemented a Corporate Social Responsibility approach in all its activities, enabling it to contribute to the construction of a sustainable future, while ensuring the Group's performance and stability.

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Established in 2005, BNP Paribas India Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of BNP Paribas SA, European Union’s leading bank with an international reach. With delivery centers located in Bengaluru, Chennai and Mumbai, we are a 24x7 global delivery center. India Solutions services three business lines: Corporate and Institutional Banking, Investment Solutions and Retail Banking for BNP Paribas across the Group. Driving innovation and growth, we are harnessing the potential of over 10000 employees, to provide support and develop best-in-class solutions.

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