Change Manager in City of London

Length: 6 to 12 months

Location: Canary Wharf

Salary: £54,000 per annum

We are actively looking to secure a Change Manager to join Experis. Experis Consultancy is a global entity with a well-established team of over 1000 consultants on assignment across 20 clients internationally. Our UK operation is expanding rapidly with ambitious growth plans for the coming years. We form part of the Manpower Group, collectively generating over $20 billion annually. Experis UK partners with major clients across multiple industries. Our approach is personal and collaborative for both our clients and our own employees. We are passionate about training, technology, and career development.

About Risk, Finance & Treasury: We are accountable for the delivery of business change and technology transformation for Risk, Finance and Treasury Functions globally, working in partnership with our Business customers to develop and implement long term strategic IT solutions to help achieve the Firm's strategic goals.

Role overview: The Change Delivery Manager is responsible for managing change projects to meet strategic objectives, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, compliant with regulations, and aligned with internal policies.

• 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.
• 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.
• Oversee end-to-end delivery of FRTB initiatives, ensuring alignment with regulatory timelines and internal governance.

Stakeholder Management and Leadership:

• Ensures that stakeholder mapping & stakeholder plan is comprehensive and considers internal and external stakeholders.
• Develops and manages one or more defined communication channels which facilitates open communication and discussion between stakeholders for multiple work streams/projects.
• Communication to key stakeholders/groups to keep them informed of key changes and potential impact of the project outcome through published status reports.
• Takes ownership for stakeholder management of multiple senior stakeholders within the assigned business area.
• Facilitate negotiation/mediation between different stakeholders to aid decision making process.

Decision-making and Problem Solving:

• Maximising the effective use of time, resources and budget management.
• Ensures systematic problem solving where options are evaluated and decisions align with the values.
• Ensures understanding of the requirements and perspectives of stakeholders and integrate into their understanding of complex situations.
• Adapts to changing requirements, re-prioritising and changing course as necessary.
• Ensures decisions are made with consideration of the short and long-term impact on key stakeholders.

Risk and Control Objective: Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards.

Person Specification:

• Experience of managing technical / IT projects in Market Risk with medium to high complexity, business critical and large cross-functional team spanning multiple regions and functions.
• Experience in managing senior stakeholders within the context of a time bound Regulatory driven project is critical.
• Experience of working on FRTB SA project (under Basel IV).
• Proven familiarity with Basel 2.5 (VaR, IRC risk, sensitivities, and market risk capital calculations).
• Proven familiarity with Hypothetical Portfolio Exercises (HPE) and regulatory submission processes.
• Proven familiarity with RRAO (Residual Risk Add-On).
• Experience in managing projects within agile framework.

Skills / Qualifications:

• Facilitate workshops and discussions to resolve methodology and implementation challenges.
• Project Management Qualification and/or equivalent training / experience.
• Presentation and communication skills, managing senior (MD Level) stakeholders.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, particularly with QA, Front Office and Market Risk functions.
• Excellent organisation, communication (written and verbal), planning and problem solving skills.