Project & Change Execution Manager, VP

Job Description Project & Change Execution Manager, VP Position Overview Job Title: Project & Change Execution Manager, VP Location: Pune, India Role Description The RDA Operation Change team is a newly established team within the CB & IB Ops with the objective to establish Change & Transformation team plays a significant role in ensuring projects (change initiatives) meet objectives on time. - The Program Manager leads a large program / group of programs and has the ultimate responsibility and accountability for the delivery of the value and strategic outcomes of the items in their portfolio. - The Program Manager will own the engagement with business sponsors and key stakeholders, optimize their portfolio delivery and ROI by ensuring that inter-program or strategic initiative risks and dependencies are identified and mitigated and ensure that costs are managed and benefits delivered. - This role may also involve managing program resources (such as Business Analysts, Testing Leads, etc.) for effectively delivering the program outcomes and from a career development of the direct report's perspective. Program Manager will also manage the reporting to the relevant initiative/program steering groups. What we'll offer you As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you'll enjoy - Best in class leave policy - Gender neutral parental leaves - 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral) - Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education - Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members - Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents - Accident and Term life Insurance - Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above Your key responsibilities - Responsible for the overall program definition (including investment required and benefits opportunity), ensuring that program plan is clearly defined, takes accountability for the overall delivery of the program - Implementation and ongoing management of Clarity across all program workstreams, in conjunction with Technology, to improve timeliness and accuracy of reporting and improved compliance with Bank reporting standards - Responsible for defining the program milestones and delivery plan in collaboration with Technology and Operations / Business stakeholders - Devise evaluation strategies to monitor performance and determine the need for improvements - Engages in delivery planning activities with Technology and helps prioritize the JIRAs for each delivery - Maintains the RAID Log for the program / project and reports promptly to sponsors /senior stakeholders on risks, issues and dependencies proposes mitigation plans and seeks feedback to keep program on track - Supervise program resources to provide feedback and resolve complex problems - Creates and maintains the status reports required for the various governance forums conducts some of the governance / project forums on a daily / weekly / monthly basis - Leverages experience and understanding of stakeholder need to help create a solution, envisions the solution to solve a problem (Application/Tool Based) - Performs Cost/Benefit Analysis to align the technology to business strategy - Gathers & catalogues functional, non-functional, and technical requirements for stakeholder requests - Determines the impact of modifications and enhancements on the solution / product - Specify the workflow & systems enhancements to satisfy business & reporting needs - Guides business analysts on capturing and refining business and/or system requirements - Guides the Testing Leads to review, analyse and support Front to back testing - Acts as the product(s) subject matter expert to support scope and requirement decisions - Ensures changes to the application are compliant with bank standards and policies - Identify, document and troubleshoot application related problems. Documents process, procedures and workflows associated with applications - Leads or participate in continuous improvement efforts, building expertise in creating, analysing, and improving processes - Guides implementation leads to create, maintain and present training materials for end-users - Embedment of Agile methods and ways of working within Operations, in collaboration with Technology, to promote effective execution. Ensuring roles and responsibilities are embedded in Operations and cross-feature team dependencies are identified and managed - Ensure program operations and activities adhere to legal guidelines and internal policies - Possess a working knowledge of the business and/or technical domain in reference data (optional) Your skills and experience Domain Skills - 15+ years of a track record in Global Program Management, Change management, experience in supervising and displays ability to work in virtual global teams and a matrix organization preferably full-spectrum banking groups (retail, corporate, wholesale, investment banking) - Relevant experience in Change Management, Data Analysis and driving large transformation projects. - A proven, considerable level of analytical, problem solving and resource planning skills - Experience in Data Management, Data Analytics, Business Analysis and Financial Services is preferable - Strong and well-developed relationship / stakeholder management skills - Open minded, able to share information, knowledge and expertise with peers & team members - Demonstration of excellent communication and influencing skills - PMP, Scrum Master certification - Good to have - Strong skills using MS Office products (Powerpoint, Word, Excel) - capable of producing executive level reporting to ensure progress is understood and key risks/issue updates are communicated effectively - Experience with Program Management tool and associated reporting standards - Understanding of Agile ways of working and methods to enable effective partnership with Technology - People Management experience is preferred (able to manage junior project resources) How we'll support you - Training and development to help you excel in your career - Coaching and support from experts in your team - A culture of continuous learning to aid progression - A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs About us and our teams Please visit our company website for further information: We strive for a in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively. Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group. We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.