Senior Consultant Specialist
- Pune, Maharashtra
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Produce a well-defined project plan, identifying the key milestones by assigning responsibilities & resources.
- Create a detailed project plan capturing low level activities and assigning owners, tracking the progress closely.
- Provides timely reports on project status. Identify risks/issues/dependencies as they arise throughout the project lifecycle and escalate them in the appropriate governance forums with proper mitigation plan.
- Maintains project change control, ensuring any changes to baseline are managed through change request.
- Collaborates and builds positive stakeholder relationships providing regular updates, obtains buy-in from all project stakeholders encompassing key project activities.
- Promotes and takes accountability for project quality; identifies opportunities to improve delivery.
- Manages Change Adoption to ensure the change lands well and sticks, contributing to benefits realization.
- Analyses management reports and derives insights from it to drive the right business decisions.
- Drive project discussions autonomously towards logical conclusion.
- Drives project governance / assurance activities (e.g. Non-Financial Risk assessment, Data control, product approvals etc. ) with business, legal, regulatory compliance, financial crime risk teams etc.
- Coordinate with internal and external third-party vendors for flawless execution of project.
- Escalate the risks to project delivery, budget, resourcing gaps with mitigation plan in relevant governance forums.
- 12+ years of experience in project management in the banking and financial institutions.
- In depth understanding of the project lifecycle.
- Proficient in change adoption techniques.
- In depth knowledge and experience of project execution in agile framework with extensive hands-on experience in tools such as Clarity/ JIRA/ MS Project/ confluence etc.
- Experience in executing projects/ programme for
- Avaloq wealth management suite.
- parameterizing and maintaining business IT solutions in Avaloq.
- Defining the access controls in Avaloq.
- Exposure to Financial Planning and Insurance domain project execution
- Experience with Wealth Management or Investment Banking or Banking Operations project execution
- Experience in Capital Markets (Equities, Bonds/ Fixed income. Mutual funds, Futures and options, structured product etc.) project execution
- Exposure to trade settlement life cycle, Data mapping, trade reports and statements project execution
- Ability to analyze and comprehend the regulatory requirements and assess their impact on the business processes
- Ability to interact and influence senior stakeholders to drive decisions in achieving desired project outcome.
- Problem solving ability with adherence to stringent timelines in fast paced environment.
- Experience in project tracking (setting up project plan, managing risk and issue log, tollgates, reporting and governance)
- Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills.
- Proficient in financial and budget management.
- Driving consistency & lead team/s by sharing best practices around how complex & multi market projects are defined, managed, and monitored.
- What additional skills will be good to have?
- PMP / Prince 2 / MSP/ PgMP/ Leading SAFe Certifications