Programme Manager

Programme Manager

London/Hybrid

6-month contract (temp – perm)

£963.67 p/d Umbrella

If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC, and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further. We are currently seeking an experienced individual to join this team in the role of Programme Manager.

Overview of Markets Treasury:

Markets Treasury sits at the heart of HSBC and acts as the Street-facing arm of the Treasury function (which responsible for setting the risk limits and strategy in respect of HSBC’s balance sheet). Markets Treasury’s priorities are:

• Manage HSBC’s cash, liquidity and funding for 45+ sites globally
• Manage HSBC’s overall High Quality Liquid Assets (HQLA)
• Manage HSBC’s short-term funding requirements
• Manage HSBC’s interest rate positions of the banking book
• Generate stable (and significant) revenues by optimizing return on interest rates and HQLA

Role purpose:

As a globally diverse function, we have a demanding transformation agenda which covers all areas of regulatory change, innovation, non-financial risk reduction and strategic investment. Markets Treasury is seeking a temporary to permanent Transformation Manager at Director level based in London. The Markets Treasury Transformtion Manager role is required to lead and drive the end to end project management of initiatives within the Markets Treasury Business Function.

Project & programme management roles lead change initiation, design and delivery and are accountable for successful delivery of both technology and business change programmes and ensuring benefits realisation. They operate at an executive level and engage and influence a wide spectrum of stakeholders and partners across HSBC.

The responsibilities will include:

• Proactively lead teams to drive programme delivery, balancing scope, schedule, interdependencies, budget and risks. Take ownership of overall project plan and work with key contributors to agree their contribution
• Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders across the whole front to back value chain, addressing their concerns and ensuring their satisfaction
• Understand stakeholders' objectives, direction, priorities and challenges, managing and addressing concerns and objections
• Define resourcing responsibilities and schedules
• Lead the establishment of effective programme controls and procedures
• Drive the adoption of HSBC standards and work in alignment with the change framework at all times.
• Manage non-financial and conduct risks inherent in delivery change into the operating environment by taking into consideration HSBC’s standard non-financial risks and conduct outcome
• Drive the use of agile methodologies within technology teams (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Lean) in line with corresponding transformation frameworks at the bank
• Set high expectations concerning quality and put in place and work within quality assurance processes
• Be accountable for all elements of programme financial management, including headcount and software delivery capitalisation
• Report progress, issues, dependencies and risks to steering committees / initiative leadership and make recommendations to influence decision making in order to maintain progress towards delivery and benefits realisation

Experience / Knowledge:

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• Strong project management skillset covering the whole project lifecycle from initiation to closure
• Strong understanding of treasury and markets treasury with ability to translate complex concepts into programme documentation
• Experience in delivering change in a markets environment with products such as Fixed Income, FX, Repo, Derivatives.
• Good understanding of systems and data architecture in treasury, risk or finance environments, with ability to bridge the communication between business stakeholders and the technology team
• Educated to minimum of degree level or equivalent professional qualification
• Strong execution and problem solving skills
• Ability to present information in a professional manner, including preparing documents for review by C-level audiences
• Personal ownership of target and resolution of issues
• Team player and able to manage conflict and conflicting priorities
• Ability to provide direction to more junior colleagues
• Ability to drive delivery in a changing landscape
• Minimum 10 years of experience in financial services
• Proficiency in a front office trading environment, including the regulatory and conduct expectations.
• Project experience across both internal reporting and regulatory requirements, with experience of Finance or Risk systems and processes
• Experience in change management, driven by IT systems implementation or enhancement, across a large organisation is a must
• Experience in communications and providing information to senior stakeholders (mininum to Managing Director level) is a must

If you think you are up for the task and feel you meet the above criteria or interested to hear more information, please contact me on [email protected]

Please note, in the event of a high volume of applications for this role, we will not be able to respond to each individual applicant. Unfortunately, if you have not been contacted within 7 days then we will not be progressing with your application. Thank you for your understanding