Project Manager/Wholesale IT

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HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Project Manager

Principal responsibilities

• Build and maintain strong relationships with business partners, other IT stakeholders and potential GTRF clients.
• Collaboratively manage with IT, the business and technology stakeholders to shape/refine and manage the technology roadmap and deliver business priorities.
• End-to-end responsibility for the IT client onboarding and implementation support function for Structured Trade Finance (STF) products and roll-out of new client onboarding procedures/processes.
• Track, plan and coordinate end to end client onboarding across products, IT and business teams.
• Manage IT client onboarding team to support and maintain standard client onboarding artefacts to conform to HSBC global and STF standards.
• Manage third party technology vendors. Ensure their performance meets the necessary standards and ability to deliver the required pipeline of outcomes.
• Work with stakeholders to manage risk, prioritise demand and determine potential remediation actions that may be required.
• Manage the reporting of progress, issues, dependencies and risks and make recommendations to influence decision making in order to maintain progress towards delivery and benefits realisation.
• Manage programme budgets, headcount and software delivery capitalisation.
• Management of service agreement monitoring of third party contracts with technology suppliers.
• Leading and motivating the project team towards successful delivery, this will be spread across numerous diverse locations.
• Reporting, verbally and in writing, project status and progress to senior managers and stakeholders.
• Promote and drive continuous improvement regarding the set-up and operation of the applications and their eco-system, in order to improve service, stability and throughput.
• Adhere to bank’s standards and approved tools for deployment and operation of applications and management of operational risk.
• Ensure availability and development of the right skills to deliver in the teams.
  

Requirements

• Preferable business domain knowledge of Trade Finance, banking domain including Supply Chain Finance.
• Exposure to end to end client integration with Host-to-Host(H2H), Sterling File Gateway(SFG) & Enterprise Resource Planning(ERP) integration solutions will be added advantage
• Strong payment processing knowledge and understanding of swift and ISO xml standards.
• Strong knowledge of industry standard file formats.
• Strong technology engineering background with proven ability to identify, design, and implement large-scale, complex global technology, ideally with recent experience of agile/devops methods.
• Proven track record of managing end to end integration projects in financial institutions, integrating solutions from Customer facing to Product Processing, Finance and Risk.
• Strong stakeholder management capability building working relationships with people at all levels.
• Programme management ability to manage multiple projects with distributed and virtual global teams including vendor engagement
• Prior experience on Mainframe or Java related technologies will be added advantage
• Ability to present topics and articulate ideas to senior management and other stakeholders both in Technology and the Business
• Demonstrate strong organisational and management skills
  

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

HSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and, opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role.”

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***Issued By HSBC Software Development Centre***

Qualifications

Any Graduate