Join MSBC as a Program Manager – Leading Strategic Delivery and Driving Financial Technology Transformation
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Program Manager to lead strategic technology initiatives and deliver impactful results within the financial services domain. In this role, you will oversee complex, cross-functional projects, ensuring alignment between business objectives and technical execution. If you excel at managing transformation programs, driving collaboration, and ensuring successful delivery across global teams, we’d love to hear from you.
Role Responsibilities
- Manage projects against agreed plans, providing and updating weekly project status.
- Provide concise and timely reporting to the PMO Office.
- Manage resource allocation to projects.
- Coordinate between cross-functional departments, including but not limited to Technology.
- Manage workstream scope and change control.
- Maintain the RAID register.
- Resolve issues and escalate as required.
- Participate in design and build phases.
- Provide support during UAT.
- Work with business stakeholders (sponsors, business managers, operations staff, and delivery teams) to deliver technology change.
- Close projects, produce closure reports, and agree and assign follow-on actions.
- Fulfil any additional/ad hoc duties as required to meet the needs of the technology organisation.
Experience/Competencies
- Ability to work with business SMEs as well as project and IT representatives.
- Competent in a transformation environment undergoing significant change to modernise and simplify the technology environment.
- Resilient, persistent, and well-mannered at all times.
- Good understanding of the front-to-back trade lifecycle and reference data.
- Good understanding of back-office and accounts receivables is highly desirable.
- Detailed understanding of the full project life cycle from requirements capture through to implementation and delivery.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
- Certification such as Prince 2, PMI, AgilePM.
- Minimum 5 years of Project Management experience within the Financial Services Technology sector, ideally within an Agile development environment.
- Held budget accountability for projects/programmes over £500k.
Skills
- Exceptional working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite (MS Project, PowerPoint, Word, and Excel).
- Proficient in creating PowerPoint presentations.
- Excellent communication skills and stakeholder management at all levels including strong presentation skills.
- Strong problem solver, and ability to work to tight deadlines.
- Strong organisational skills and ability to work on multiple projects while managing multiple deadlines and differing priorities. Projects will span across global teams in multiple time zones.
- Writing skills – ability to produce documents in a clear, accurate, and compelling manner.
- Creativity, innovation, and ability to demonstrate a proactive approach to tasks.
- Agile delivery experience and acumen.
Note :
This role follows UK shift timings and is based in Ahmedabad/Pune.