Transaction Banking Project Manager, VP

Barclays • New York, NY

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The purpose of the role is to manage change projects that help the organisation achieve its strategic objectives, while ensuring that projects are delivered on time, within budget, in control and in compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies and procedures. This role is key in supporting transformational change efforts while developing and owning key products across Cash Management and Trade. The successful candidate will bring senior change delivery knowledge with product ownership, requiring ample leadership in both stakeholder engagement and end-to-end product lifecycle management. In this role, you will play a critical role in shaping the future of our transaction banking offerings by bringing innovative products to market.

Requirements

• Driving end-to-end project delivery, from ideation and planning through execution
• Transaction banking experience, with an understanding of the product development life cycle, business readiness, and end-to-end business process mapping is preferred
• Proficiency in project management tools and techniques such as Microsoft Suite, Copilot, Visio, Jira, Confluence.
• Ability to work and present with stakeholders to define target operating models for new and enhanced products and services
• Risk and controls
• Change and transformation
• Business acumen
• Strategic thinking
• Digital and technology
• Job-specific technical skills

Nice To Haves

• Relevant certifications such as Agile, CAPM, PMP are advantageous
• Change agility and problem solving, comfortable with shifting priorities and challenging status quo
• Ample verbal and written communications skills to manage stakeholder expectations through clear project reporting, RAID management, and action closure
• Thorough attention to detail and demonstrable organizational abilities to ensure project documents are complete and auditable
• Analytical skills to support business requirements definition, new/updated process development, and user acceptance testing execution

Responsibilities

• Management of change projects within the organisation, ensuring that they are delivered on time, within scope, budget, and to the required quality standards.
• Development and management of project plans that outline the scope, objectives, timelines, and resource requirements for change projects.
• Communication with stakeholders, including senior management, project teams, and external partners, to ensure that they are informed about project progress and that their needs and expectations are being met.
• Management of project teams, ensuring that they are properly resourced and that they have the necessary skills and expertise to deliver on project objectives.
• Management of project budgets, ensuring that projects are delivered within the agreed budget.
• Creation of reports on project progress to ensure that proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
• Management of project risks, ensuring that risk, assumptions, issues and dependencies are identified, assessed, and mitigated as necessary.
• Facilitation of change management activities, including training and communication, to ensure that change projects are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.
• Contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change.
• Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes.
• Lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
• In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

Benefits

• The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed