Project & Change Specialist, AS

Job Title: Project & Change Specialist, AS

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 primary responsibility will be creating and implementing change management strategies and plans that maximize achieving organization goals and minimizing resistance, focusing on business processes changes, systems and technology.
• The team also aims to support RDA Operations functions in the business side activities during joint projects with IT.

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

• Owning typical project management / PMO activities to support the various change projects:
  • Develop and maintain project documentation, including project plans, status reports, meeting minutes and RAID logs
  • Coordinate meetings, workshops, and stakeholder communications
  • Monitor project timelines and deliverables
  • Support governance processes
  • Collaborate with project managers and other stakeholders to ensure timely updates
  • Contribute to continuous improvement of project management processes and tools
  • Support go live activities (e.g. UAT preparation) and post-go live warranty period.
• Supporting the Lead BAs / business SME in turning business expectations into clearly defined business requirements for implementation with IT or vendor organisations.
• Support assessment of solution options in line with business requirements.
• Opportunity to work independently on assigned analysis tasks.
• Documentation of above outcomes
• Management of required activities and coordination with the necessary stakeholders within the organisation (e.g. business teams, operations teams, IT)

Your skills and experience

Domain Skills

• 5+ years of work experience within corporate financial services industry, Research/Analytics role in other Banks/KPOs etc
• Minimum 3-5 years' experience as a project manager / business analyst in change projects and driving analysis results independently
• Strong organisational, time management and multi-tasking skills
• Ideally relevant business expertise for Party Reference Data handing would be beneficial
• Analytical mindset with attention to detail
• Proven problem-solving skills and ability to structure and assess complex problems to develop solution options
• Ideally proven experience in process analysis, process design and target state definitions and the documentation thereof.
• Experience of working with agile project management methodologies and tools (e.g. JIRA, Confluence)
• Experience in preparing/leading user acceptance test cycles
• Confident in working in a remote project setup across multiple time zones

Communication skills

• Strong stakeholder management skills across various seniority levels
• Good verbal and written communication skills at all levels - onshore & remote
• Ability to visualise complex topics to converse with stakeholders.

Technical skills

• Demonstrated experience (as 'user'), understanding and appreciation of technology and IT delivery processes
• Advanced knowledge of MS Excel and MS PowerPoint is a must
• Experience in using JIRA

Soft Skills

• Ability to work independently and take ownership
• Flexibility to handle multiple parallel projects / engagements
• Ability and interest to adopt to new requirements and new project contexts (e.g. switching from a Party reference project to a Credit Risk requirement)

Educational Qualification

• Degree in software engineering or business management

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

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We strive for a culture 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.