Job Title: Project Manager – Transformation

About the Job you are considering:
We are seeking an experienced “Project Manager” to lead and govern change initiatives across Core Banking Platforms ensuring seamless delivery of programmes spanning retail banking business banking payments lending and regulatory compliance The role is responsible for shaping the direction of strategic change driving end-to-end execution and maintaining delivery excellence across mission critical banking transformation programmes.

Hybrid working:

The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

Your role:

• Create and maintain delivery plans aligned to the Product Owner roadmap ensuring clear visibility of milestones across Core Banking Payments and Lending functions
• Strong understanding of retail banking operations customer onboarding transaction processing payments loan servicing and regulatory frameworks
• Establish delivery disciplines Agile cadence and governance standards for the feature team supporting core banking change
• Proactively manage issues risks and dependencies ensuring timely escalation and resolution across technology and business teams
• Own delivery status reporting ensuring accuracy of scope timeline resourcing RAID logs and compliance checkpoints
• Lead vendor and third party management including RFPs contract negotiation and performance governance for banking technology partners
• Control financials and resource forecasting ensuring spend aligns with project budgets and costtoserve expectations
• Take end-to-end ownership for delivering banking products and platform enhancements on time within cost and to the required quality standards ensuring controlled change and stable releases
• Ensure alignment with bank wide governance forums risk committees architecture boards and compliance approvals facilitating smooth delivery across Core Banking and Digital channels
  
  
  

Essential Skills Basic Qualifications :

• Proven experience delivering banking transformation programmes with strong grounding in change management and project management practices
• Handson experience with Agile delivery sprint planning backlog management and continuous delivery models in a banking environment
• Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage senior business leaders across Retail Business Banking Risk Compliance and Technology
• Analytical problem-solving mindset with the ability to design practical solutions for business critical banking processes
• Ability to interpret and manage the intersection of complex business needs legacy core banking systems digital channels and stringent legal regulatory requirements
• Proven capability to manage competing priorities and deliver at pace in a regulated financial services environment
• Solid understanding of the financial services industry especially around regulatory change eg PSD2 FCA guidelines operational risk controls
  Knowledge of Group Change Governance Strategic Change Execution Board Standards.
  
  

We are a Disability Confident Employer:

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

• Declare they have a disability, and
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role. Please opt in during the application process.

Make It Real (what does it mean for you):

• You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions.
  To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
• You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
• You will be joining one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®, as recognised by Ethisphere® for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.
  
  
  

Why you should consider Capgemini:

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini:

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.
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