Senior Project Manager (12 months)

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HSBC Corporate and Institutional Banking is a markets-led, financing-focused business that provides investment and financial solutions. Our sector-focused Banking relationship managers provide a single coverage point for multi-national clients. With our global capabilities and footprint, vast expertise, and local knowledge, our Global Network Banking teams connect clients to the products and services that meet their international financial needs.
We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as a Senior Project Manager (12 months).
In this role you will
Impact on Business
Definition and articulation of transformation opportunities in Counterparty Exposure management benefitting the FRM Value Stream
Inception and instantiation of investment plans for agreed/approved opportunities
Mobilisation of governance and delivery frameworks for significant transformation programmes within the Financial Resource Management & Distribution portfolio, with a focus on Counterparty Exposure and Internal Model Method (IMM) activities
Coordinate and manage the design and documentation for assigned projects including formal regulatory submission
Ensure a controlled transition into Business-as-Usual (BAU), embedding sustainable ownership, processes, and reporting.
Value Creation
Partner with Global Businesses to define target FRM outcomes and OKRs, ensuring alignment to strategic priorities and measurable value.
Build robust business and investment cases, securing sponsorship and funding through clear articulation of benefits, costs, risks, and dependencies.
Translate approved investment cases into delivery plans with agreed OKRs, milestones, and accountabilities across Value Streams and Enablers.
Put in place governance and oversight that supports end-to-end delivery, timely decision-making, and transparent reporting to sponsors and stakeholders.
Optimise delivery plans within constraints (scope, resources, budget, timelines), balancing pace with risk management and quality.
Actively manage scope, schedule, budget, benefits, and requirements in line with the Business Transformation Framework (BTF), intervening early where variance emerges.
Track and manage operating and capital expenditure against business case commitments, ensuring accurate financial reporting and control.
Own the risk/issue/dependency landscape for assigned projects, driving mitigations and removing blockers to protect outcomes and benefit realisation.
Build strong stakeholder alignment, influencing across functions to secure buy-in for priorities, trade-offs, and contingency actions.
Drive formal sign-off of deliverables, close projects in a controlled manner, capture lessons learned, and feed improvements back into transformation practices.
Share accountability with sponsors for benefits realisation and ensure change is implemented smoothly, with impacted teams ready to operate in the target state.
Set a clear operating rhythm and delivery cadence, creating momentum and a culture of achievement across cross-functional teams.
Promote pace and energy within the team and lead by example.
Operational Performance
Produce and maintain high-quality project plans (including in Clarity), with clear milestones, deliverables, roles, and resourcing.
Develop detailed business cases and financial models, linking investments and benefits to the wider financial resource profile and business objectives.
Create and challenge delivery estimates (schedule, effort, cost) using established transformation methods, benchmarks, and prior delivery experience.
Mobilise and lead project teams effectively, ensuring clarity of responsibilities, ways of working, and delivery expectations.
Provide timely, accurate reporting on status, risks, issues, dependencies, and performance, enabling effective governance decisions.
Manage budgets proactively, identifying variance early and driving corrective actions to maintain control.
Maintain disciplined change control, ensuring impacts to scope, benefits, schedule, and cost are assessed and approved through formal governance.
Take accountability for delivery quality, applying assurance processes and acting on recommendations from tollgates and QA reviews.
Establish and run governance forums that enable focused decisions, clear escalation routes, and consistent application of BTF standards.
Use standardised metrics and reporting (via

Skills
Risk Management, Documentation

Experience
5+ yrs