VPProject Manager – DRIVE Global Banking
Business Overview:
DRIVEProject Implementation Americas is building its core expertise in managingtransversal and transformation projects across all Global Markets & GlobalBanking Business Lines. We are looking to on-board project managers withstrong functional & business knowledge, as well as, regulatory andcompliance expertise. Comprehensive knowledge of Global Banking & corporateloan business will be required. Some familiarity with the BNPP culture andoperational set up is also considered a major plus.
*Physical presence in BNPP’s office(s) is an essential function of this position. Thisrole will be hybrid, consisting of an in office and remote working component.
Responsibilities:
Project Management:
- Manage and lead assigned projects to completion with delivery of agreed objectives
· Ensure that all projects follow Group Policies andProcedure – including proper Project Governance and reporting to seniormanagement & stakeholders
· Create and lead appropriate project governance
· Identify and stabilize the scope of businesstopics to be addressed / resolved
· Identify and obtain the buy-in from the PrimaryProject Stakeholders and Sponsor
· Secure resources and manage prioritization /funding of those resources
· Leverage expertise and problem solving skills topropose solutions during each phase of the project
· Drive the delivery effort by maintaining projectlists, organizing follow up meetings, creating and distributing meeting minutes
· Identify risk and dependencies that couldjeopardize project execution
· Ensure clear communication of goals, budget,risks, efforts involved, as well as on the progress of the project
· Work closely with all functions – Front office,Operations, Finance, IT, Compliance, Legal, Risk etc. to ensure successfuldelivery of project objectives.
· Manage situations of conflict and constraints to ensure the success of the project.
Business Analysis:
· Elicit business requirements using interviews& subject matter expertise
· Document requirements, business processdescriptions, use cases, scenarios, task and workflow analysis
· Critically evaluate information gathered frommultiple sources, reconcile conflicts, & decompose high-level informationinto details
· Abstract up from low-level information to ageneral understanding, and distinguish user requests from the true underlying needs
· Proactively communicate and collaborate withexternal and internal customers to deliver the following artifacts as needed:(1) Business Requirements Documents, (2) Test & Use Cases
· Challenge business users on their assumptions& how they expect to successfully implement requirement
Contribute to the building of maximum efficiency within the Firm:
- Analyse the current procedures and make change proposals to improve productivity, efficiency and risk control
- Work closely with the Operations and IT managers to properly measure the impact of new systems/processes on the staff’s workload and determine the new staffing requirements where applicable.
Contribute to the successful implementation of new systems:
- Work with various users to clearly identify business requirements – from Front Office to Finance.
- Collaborate with IT to ensure that the system functionalities meet the user requirements.
- Propose procedural changes to take advantage of the new system functionalities.
- Facilitate the planning between IT and users to ensure all phases of the project are on track and that the appropriate level of testing is carried out.
Candidate Success Factors:
Candidates to be measured on the following fourperformance drivers, which will dictate how individual impact is considered onthe Americas platform:
- Results and Impact
- Impacts division and influences peers and team
- Demonstrates good judgement when making decisions of high complexity and impact
- Relies on limited guidance for most complex decision making
- Is responsible for driving outcomes which have meaningful effect on team or department
- Leadership and Collaboration
- Creates trust with department leaders
- Acts in leadership capacity for large projects, processes, or programs for a team
- Client, Customer and Stakeholder Focus
- Able to build relationships with a mix of intermediate and senior colleagues or clients
- Interacts regularly with management and department leaders
- Demonstrates the ability to persuade and influence stakeholders at the team level
- Compliance Culture and Conduct
- Takes full responsibility for personal actions and demonstrates courage in facing problems and conflicts
- Perceived as a person of high moral character; upholds corporate values and displays high ethical standards”
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree from accredited university with focus on Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Engineering, or other relevant field of study.
- Relevant industry experience with a proven delivery track record.
- Excellent level of knowledge of MS Project, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Business Analyst experience is valuable
- Must have an in-depth understanding of project life cycle and what each phase implies.
- Must have excellent communication and reporting skills – Both written and oral.
- Must be able to manage situations of conflict and work professionally and efficiently with collaborators to arrive at a solution.
- Needs to demonstrate the ability to adapt and learn new processes quickly.
- Needs to show ability to multi-task and shift gears for various topics and perimeter during the project life cycle (i.e. Knowledge of FO Products and processes, Operations, IT, Finance etc.).
- Must be able to demonstrate the ability to delve into complicated situations (issues, people, processes etc.), sort out the information and propose the solution/next steps.
- Fluent in English and Portuguese, Spanish is a plus.
Why join BNP Paribas?
BNP Paribas is an international bank withleading positions in the European market. It is present in more than 60countries and employs more than 190,000 people. The Group occupies keypositions in its three main areas of operation: Domestic Markets and InternationalFinancial Services (whose retail banking and financial services network is partof Retail Banking & Services), as well as Corporate & InstitutionalBanking, which offers services to corporate and institutional clients.
Our presence in Brazil
BNP Paribas has been officially operating inBrazil since 1996. Since 2010, when the Securities Services area beganoperating, the Brazilian unit has the largest number of business lines in LatinAmerica, making it one of the Group’s largest operations in emerging markets.Today, in Brazil, the Group is present with the areas of Corporate andInstitutional Banking, Asset Management, Insurance (Cardif) and FleetManagement (Arval).
Currently, the BNP Paribas Group has around 1400 employees in the country. In Brazil, it is among the largest international investment banks in total assets (R$ 112.5 billion, Jun/23, Prudential Conglomerate, Central Bank), offering a diversity of products and multiple solutions to its clients.
BNP Paribas is committed to providing a workenvironment that fosters diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunitywithout regard to race, color, gender, age, creed, sex, religion, nationalorigin, disability (physical or mental), marital status, citizenship, ancestry,sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, or any other legally
protected status.