AVP, Data Program Manager in London

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The Project Promotion team is part of the IT Planning, Reporting and Administration department (IPR). The role of the IPR department is to ensure communication and liaison with Head Office (HO) in Tokyo, for both Bank and Securities, as well as accountability for EMEA Technology-wide reporting, management of resourcing processes, management of asset processes and administration of wider planning processes including annual budget planning.

The Data Portfolio is part of the Project Promotion team which delivers EMEA and global projects within the planned schedule and budget.

NUMBER OF DIRECT REPORTS: 2-3 Consultants / Contractors as part of the wider project delivery team.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE: The successful candidate will be part of the Data Portfolio Change function, reporting into the Portfolio Head and its corresponding delegate on a regular basis. The Program Manager is responsible across each program/project for ensuring quality, outcomes, timelines and cost requirements are met. Among other Project Management tasks, the candidate will be responsible for the creation and maintenance of RAID logs, Business Justification documents, and Status reporting activities. The Program Manager will need to have extensive experience in Financial Institutions. Strong communication and interpersonal skills is a must, and candidates must have a well-organized structured approach to managing medium to large projects and work well with senior stakeholders, subject matter experts and consultants.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Co-ordination across projects / work streams and across wider program to ensure synergies are identified and optimized.
• Partner with key stakeholders across the business, technology and external vendors, understand external regulatory expectations and industry standards, where appropriate.
• Oversee analysis / output and form clear recommendations and proposals that are based on sound business rationale ensuring consensus and collaboration with functional partners required to opine or sign off.
• Run and manage steering committees (if required), working groups (cross functional) and ensure accountability of actions against planned timelines.
• Be a trusted partner functional stakeholders and Planning department ensuring updates, issues and consensus is effectively managed and delivered.
• Manage implementation deliveries ensuring transparency of risks, issues and dependencies that are fully aligned to functional / business owners.
• Develop detailed project plans incorporating inputs from all project participants, and report on status of deliverables.
• Manage the project costs against budget and report status update on the project budget.
• Experience in implementation of Data Programs (data quality, data governance, regulatory reporting / data lineage / meta data management) and is a must to ensure quick understanding of content and anticipating risks or issues.
• Overall responsibility for delivering complex change projects from initiation through to build, deployment and handover to the business.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Essential:

• Experience in successfully leading full lifecycle complex projects.
• Minimum 10 years proven track record delivering projects to financial institutions within time and budget.
• Strong governance approach to delivery.
• Effective communication and leadership.
• Experience of working with and negotiating contracts for vendors and consultancies.

Preferred:

• Strong knowledge of banking regulations and running regulatory projects.
• Good understanding of financial products and front-to-back processes.
• Demonstrable track record of managing multiple stakeholders and building relationships across diverse skill sets and across the organisation.
• Coaching, mentoring and leadership skills.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate at all levels.
• Proven experience of managing budgets.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

Functional / Technical Competencies:

Essential:

• Proven experience and expert understanding of delivering through full project lifecycle SDLC/PDLC using waterfall and agile approaches.
• Strong project delivery and deadline management.
• Financial – cost categorization (capital vs expense).
• Demonstrable track record of managing multiple stakeholders and building relationships across diverse skillsets and across the international organization.
• Direct experience in managing multiple functional stakeholder (senior level) and consultants to derive clear and tangible outcomes.
• Experience with identifying project outputs and tracking Business benefits.
• Familiarity with / experience of adhering to key controls (including SOX, project delivery standards, third party risk management, operational resilience management, operational risk management, data protection and financial services regulations).

Education / Qualifications:

Essential: Degree level (min)

Preferred: Relevant qualifications / accreditations e.g. Prince2, PMI, Six Sigma or other.

PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Excellent communication skills.
• Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability.
• A proactive, motivated approach.
• The ability to operate with urgency and prioritize work accordingly.
• Strong decision making skills, the ability to demonstrate sound judgement.
• A structured and logical approach to work.
• Strong problem solving skills.
• A creative and innovative approach to work.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• The ability to manage large workloads and tight deadlines.
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
• A calm approach, with the ability to perform well in a pressurized environment.
• Strong numerical skills.
• Excellent Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office & other Project Management tool skills.

For Managerial/Senior roles:

• A confident approach, with the ability to provide clear direction to your team.
• Excellent managerial/leadership experience.
• The ability to lead a high performing team.
• A strategic approach, with the ability to lead and motivate your team.
• The ability to articulate and implement the vision/strategy for the Technology department.

We are open to considering flexible working requests in line with organisational requirements. MUFG is committed to embracing diversity and building an inclusive culture where all employees are valued, respected and their opinions count. We support the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion in recruitment and employment, and oppose all forms of discrimination on the grounds of age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy and maternity, race, gender reassignment, religion or belief and marriage or civil partnership. We make our recruitment decisions in a non-discriminatory manner in accordance with our commitment to identifying the right skills for the right role and our obligations under the law.