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Assistant Vice President Project Manager - US Sanctions/Anti-Money Laundering
HSBC
Arlington Heights, IL, United States
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Description
The FCC Sanctions Investigations Project Manager will be responsible for leading and managing the Sanction Screening investigations activities within the FCR Change Delivery / GCD Sanctions Portfolio. They will play a key role supporting the FCR Sanctions Portfolio Lead in ensuring the right level of business engagement and ownership in each aspect of the transaction screening investigations programme.
The job holder will follow the structure, methods and processes required by the Group Sanctions Portfolio and broader FCR Programme.
Senior Project Managers will often play a people / team management role within the projects / programs they work on. As members of the FCR GCD management team, they will also have line management responsibility for a group of more junior resources within their resource pool (as related to their job family). i.e., Alongside project delivery responsibilities, the Senior Project Manager may have a line responsibility for a pool of Project Managers (people management, performance management, resource management and professional development).
Key Accountabilities
• Lead on delivery in a cross-line of business construct and represent the delivery interests within the framework of the wider Sanctions Portfolio and broader FCR Programme
• Lead the business analysts to drive out, define and agree good quality user requirements working with key stakeholders including FCC SME’s , FCR Management, Systems Controls & Analytics and Operations teams
• Work closely with the senior LoB and FCC / FCR Executives and stakeholders both inside and outside of the GS and FCR Programmes, engaging and influencing as appropriate
• Ensure strong governance and control across the project where plans are robust and aligned as appropriate, stakeholders are engaged and RAID is managed and escalated where necessary.
• Provide appropriate reporting to Group Sanctions Portfolio PMO
Customers / Stakeholders
• Provide senior executive level updates to provide accurate, timely and insightful analysis of the progress
• Build strong relationships, adopting a joined up approach, to support execution of change at pace and with minimum conflict
• Ensure that internal and external regulatory requirements are met
• Support the identification of stakeholder goals and effectively manage their expectations, addressing any misalignment
Leadership & Teamwork
• Build ‘trusted advisor’ relationships with business lines at a regional and global level to understand their objectives
• Influence and engage as necessary
• Understand and manage stakeholders’ requirements and expectations to ensure customer satisfaction
• Accept full responsibility and accountability deliverables as required
• Take responsibility for progress to ensure change components are delivered on time and within budget, and LoB’s targeted business results/outcomes are realised
• Lead a team to deliver effectively and efficiently.
Operational Performance
• Provide key inputs in the delivery of highly complex and business critical change effort in accordance with existing industry best practices and methodologies in the process establishing credibility for the FCR Transformation Change Delivery team
• Monitor and report on the programme & portfolio activities and intervene when programmes go off track
• Ensure all agreed costs, quality and delivery commitments to stakeholders by priority market teams are met
• Promote adherence to project/programme governance model and use of defined standards and tools for processes such as risk logs, change control and resource requests
Manages, measures, and tracks change impacts as a result of the programmes.
Major Challenges
• To be flexible and adaptable in an environment of constantly changing priorities, challenging bureaucracy and staying true to the values and strategy of the Group, all while under extreme time constraints and internal and external scrutiny
• To effectively manage executive stakeholder considerations while maintaining a global / regional outlook
• Creating a true sense of urgency, pace and collaboration across business and Transformation while delivering complex change initiatives
• Management and control of multiple complex global programmes/business transformation which have ambitious goals and high change requirements
• Working collaboratively with multiple stakeholders to deliver consistent adoption of the governance framework
Observation of Internal Controls
• Maintains HSBC internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators.
• Understands, follows and demonstrates compliance with all relevant internal and external rules, regulations and procedures that apply to the conduct of the business in which the jobholder is involved, specifically Internal Controls and any Compliance policy including, inter alia, the Group Compliance policy.
• The jobholder will adopt the Group Compliance Policy by escalating any identified compliance risk in liaison with, Global Compliance Officer, Area Compliance Officer or Local Compliance Officer. The term ‘compliance’ embraces all relevant financial services laws, rules and codes with which the business has to comply.
• Project Managers adhere to the Groups standard tools and methodologies :
• Global Change Delivery Project Management Framework (RBPM)
• Group Standard Business Case
• Business Transformation Framework:
• Programme Management Framework
• Project Management Framework
• Change and Implementation Management
• Initiation Framework
• Standard tools like Clarity & Open Workbench
Qualifications
• Understanding of Financial Crime and their application in large financial institutions
• Understanding of the external environment – regulatory, political, competitors etc.
• Outstanding knowledge of Change – functionally, operationally and financially
• Outstanding knowledge of Business Change – embedding enduring changes
• Excellent understanding of the project lifecycle
• Excellent understanding of Global Change Delivery frameworks, methodologies and best practice techniques
• A thorough understanding of the purpose, culture and fundamentals of Global Change Delivery
• Strong understanding of banking / HSBC and understanding of how change drives benefits for HSBC, its customers and other stakeholders
Experience
• Proven experience of positive, challenging interactions with Senior Executives and key stakeholders in a global environment
• Proven ability in working across multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural diverse work environments
• Proven ability in successfully designing and implementing large-scale, complex global / regional change initiatives
• Evidence of successfully managing financial plans
• Successful experience in developing and retaining critical talent and building an effective leadership team
• Extensive project management skills and experience of managing large and complex projects
• Strong people manager and broad experience in managing large teams of different work streams
• Multiple strong examples of the delivery of on time and on budget projects that achieve business case stated outcomes – a driver with bias towards delivery at pace and controlling project outcomes
• In depth experience of working in a banking environment and change projects
• Good stakeholder management experience, especially impactful communication, influencing and running project governance Implementation, change management and benefits realization
• Implementation, change management and benefits realization
Capabilities
• Outstanding relationship management and influencing skills
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills with a proven ability to communicate effectively and confidently at all levels
• High level of drive and motivation to ensure successful delivery of complex transformational initiatives
• Ability to leverage resources available to achieve goals
• Outstanding organizational and planning skills in order to cope with multiple large-scale responsibilities
• Planning and Plan Management
• Portfolio Definition and Planning
• Process Re-engineering
• Risk and Issues Management
• Global Mindset
• Customer Empathy
• Decision Making
• Commerciality
• Lead Self and Others
• Business Analysis and Design
• Business Case and Benefits Realization
• Change and Implementation Management
• Financial and Budget Management
• Tracking, Reporting and Governance
• Stakeholder Management
• Impactful communication
• Resource and Team Management
• Delivery at Pace
• Embracing change
• Achieving excellence
• Collaboration
• Problem solving and Critical Thinking
• Consultancy
• Innovation and Idea Management
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