Programme Manager - Regulatory Finance

Job Description

For more than 200 years, our global Financial Services Client has been helping people around the world connect with what matters most to them. The company is one of the worlds leading financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle-marketbusinesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services.EMEA Regulatory Finance is responsible for ensuring efficient and proactive management of economic and regulatory capital, and delivering timely and accurate reporting to regulators across EMEA. The team based in Europe with hubs in London, Dublin and Pariswith off shore support from India.The transformation team within EMEA Regulatory Finance forms part of the recently created Global Regulatory Reporting team with a remit to look for synergies in the group, drive towards best practice and increase automation across the group.The candidate will join the Finance department in London as part of the Transformation team, working on a major initiative to enhance the Operating Model and increase automation throughout the production process.This team provides a critical link between the change and IT functions and the business stakeholders to ensure the transformation being delivered is what the users require and moves the organisation forward.Responsibilities

• The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering a significant business transformation within either operating model, process improvement or automation as part of a wider transformation initiative.
• The role will require both extensive project management experience and proven experience at working in a variety of roles within Financial services across Finance, Operations or Risk Management
• The individual will need to demonstrate the skills required to deliver a complex and multi-faceted project end to end
• The candidate will be responsible for both medium/long term project planning, as well as day-to-day task tracking and monitoring of risks, issues and dependencies to ensure momentum is achieved and sustained
• This is an excellent opportunity for an individual who has demonstrable experience on large-scale op model, process or data transformations to manage and deliver a significant and high profile initiative

Essential Role Competencies

• Proven experience working across multiple areas within Financial Services, Finance, Risk Management or Operations
• Ability to manage senior stakeholder relationships and provide leadership updates
• Strong project management experience structuring and delivering complex initiatives
• Extensive experience within an off shoring operating model
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Essential Personal Competencies

• Collaborative team player with clear examples of working across teams and positively influencing other areas not under their direct reporting lines
• Ability to positively drive work forward and create a strong team environment
• Structured approach to defining, executing and evidencing deliverables
• Ability to operate within a global environment working with stakeholders from multiple locations and time zones
• Experience in identifying and managing the risks, issues and dependencies inherent in delivering complex regulatory change

Desirable

• Prior experience working within Agile methodologies / frameworks
• Understanding of high profile regulations (FinRep, CoRep, AnaCredit etc)
• Experience of working within challenging and dynamic organisational contexts

Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.Please be advised if you havent heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.Pontoon is an employment consultancy and operates as an equal opportunities employer.