Business Manager - Banking/Transformation

Are you a passionate and confident Business Manager with Banking/Transformation experience ready to make a significant contribution working for one of the UK's fastest growing Financial Services Consultancies?

Then read on!

MHC Overview:

MHC are an award-winning IT and Business Consultancy, specialising in Change Management initiatives, which we deliver working in a collaborative way with our Clients.

You will have the confidence and the capability to step straight into a specialist consultancy role within one of MHC's Practice areas to provide effective and efficient solutions that support our Clients' business requirements, while working constructively with senior MHC and Client managers and other staff.

MHC are hiring a Business Manager to join us on a PAYE contract basis and work on a project we are delivering for a Tier 1 Bank.

For this role you will be required to be on site in London (2 days a week onsite)

The Business Manager actively oversees the execution phase delivery across the designated Transformation projects. This project cuts across Continental Europe & Universal Banking countries, ensuring that there is clear focus on delivering the bank's High Priority Programme, project targets and significant changes. The role is accountable to the Programme Director for the Transformation, ensuring accurate and insightful inputs to the Regional Europe CIO.

Value Creation

• Oversees the development of a well-defined programme plan.
• Coordinates planning across multiple Project Managers and delivery partner teams.
• Plans effectively around delivery constraints and optimises the plan to maximise benefits and minimise risk.
• Working with Regional and Country stakeholders to obtains buy-in, collaborates and influences senior management stakeholders for all key Programme plans, commitments and changes.
• Proactively determine, analyse and identify performance metrics and measurements and dictates improvement plans to track and drive on time delivery and adherence to budget.
• Actively manages and co-ordinates the programme plan/roadmap, handling changes as they arise and keeping stakeholders focused on the agreed change outcomes and benefits.
• Baselines the plan requirements, designs, budget and scope.
• Requests and manages changes through the change control process. Challenges and intervenes where there is scope creep, budget overrun, plan slippage and benefits.
• Obtain sponsor and stakeholder sign-off for deliverables, formally close programme, assess stakeholder satisfaction and capture feedback. Captures key learns from each programme and feeds back into Transformation methodologies and best practice.
• Oversees the tracking of strategic programme risks/issues/dependencies, assesses the impact on the benefit realisation for the programme and takes action to minimise impact, actively challenging and removing obstacles.
• Plans and manages the implementation of the change, to ensure business benefits are realised and that the transition from current state to target state is smooth. Ensuring that the organisation and other change audiences are ready, willing and able to function in the new business environment.
• Works closely with delivery partners on planning, design and estimating, bringing together delivery and business partner teams; actively managing dependencies between these teams and other projects and programmes.
• Acts as a change leader with the business leadership and business sponsor - a visible and clear leader for the programme and the delivery of its outcomes and benefits.

Operational Performance

• Produces a well-defined programme plan in Planning/reporting tool (eg Clarity, MS Office), sets the key work streams/milestones and assigns project managers.
• Demonstrates effective financial skills to develop and manage a detailed business case, including investments, detailed benefits and link to overall finances of the business.
• Creates & provides timely reports on programme status, risks and issues, evaluating programme performance based on management information.
• Reviews and constructively challenges project/workstream status reports and ensures all aspects of programme performance are being managed effectively.
• Manages and reports on the programme budget, acting on any variance and promoting good budget control across the programme's workstreams.
• Manages and reports project risks, issues and dependencies, promoting good risk management across the programme's workstreams.
• Maintains project change control, ensuring any changes to baseline are managed through change request and all impacts are considered.

Please apply now for immediate consideration.