Day to day responsibilities:

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Identifies,
assesses, and manages project risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies,
escalating as appropriate via the agreed governance framework.

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Ensures that all
project status reporting is accurate, informative, and timely, and directly
provides progress reports as agreed as part of the governance framework at
agreed intervals.

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Working with
Finance, external Vendor, and various Tech team to gather and draft data and report
requirements and ensure Development team is clear with Business Requirements.

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Manage and track
Tech development and testing status, perform pre-UAT and support Finance team
for UAT, defect management and track status to achieve sign off.

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Assist Tech team
if required to link up with local Vendor on any questions from internal Tech
team.

Key objectives and outputs:

RAIDS:

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Identifies, assesses,
and manages project risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies, escalating as
appropriate via the agreed governance framework.

Change Control:

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Controls the scope
of projects and ensure that rigorous change controls are exercised.

Planning:

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Ensures that realistic
detailed project plans are prepared and maintained, providing regular and
accurate reports on progress against plan to stakeholders as appropriate.

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Ensure project
dependencies and assumptions are factored into the planning process.

Benefits Management:

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Support
identification, definition & tracking of the realisation of the project
benefits in line with the expectation set out in the Business Case

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Ensuring any
risks, issues or assumptions related to benefit realisation are outlined.

Governance and Reporting:

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Define and
implement governance and reporting structure appropriate for the project.

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Establish and run
Working Group

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Ensures projects
meet the desired requirements of Accountable Executives and that acceptance and
handover to business as usual are managed against agreed acceptance criteria
and to a defined plan.

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Ensures that all
project status reporting is accurate, informative, and timely, and directly
provides progress reports as agreed as part of the governance framework at
agreed intervals.

Change standards:

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Ensures projects
being managed are compliant with relevant governance methodologies (e.g. iCompass / SDLC / Agile and Navigator)

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Ensures projects
being managed are compliant with the central ePMO function’s directives,
initiatives and change handbook.

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Ensures compliance
to QA per Change Framework and initiates other assurance activities where
required.

Typical Support Required:

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Some Project
Manager oversight required to ensure project structure, governance and scope
are set up to acceptable standards.

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Needs support from
immediate managers in the design of areas of communication with challenging or
more senior stakeholders.

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Immediate manager is
likely to provide quality control oversight on key deliverables.

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Stakeholder
Management and Leadership

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Typically faces
off to AVP/VP/Director level stakeholders.

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Prepares and
maintains a stakeholder mapping and communication plan and considers internal
and external stakeholders.

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Initiates &
develops and manages communication channels acting as a single point of contact
for defined groups for single project/work stream.

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Communicates to
key stakeholders/groups to keep them informed of key changes and potential
impact of the project outcome through published status reports.

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Facilitate
negotiation/mediation between different stakeholders to aid decision making
process and escalating to superiors in a timely manner.

Decision-making
and Problem Solving

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Demonstrates a
broad understanding of how the bank operates and the metrics used to measure performance.

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Analyses problems
and evaluates options in a logical and systematic way.

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Seeks the advice
of stakeholders to better create clarity in complex situations, understand
problems, evaluate options, and make decisions.

Risk and
Control Objective

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All Barclays
colleagues must ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full
compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise-Wide Risk Management Framework
and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards

Person
Specification

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A track
record of delivery involving both project management and business analysis
skill sets in Regulatory Reporting or Business Transformation projects.

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Strong
communication skills which primarily includes Articulation, Negotiation,
Ability to drive and facilitate forums involving cross-functional people of all
grades.

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Strong
stakeholder/senior stakeholder management with the ability to challenge and negotiate.

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Should be able to
drive initiatives independently with minimum oversight from seniors.

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High degree of
organisational awareness.

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Confidence to
challenge colleagues to ensure the most appropriate solution delivered.

Working background/experience:

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Ability to communicate (both verbally and in written) in
English.

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Familiar/Experienced with China Regulatory Reporting
requirements.

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Strong Business Analysis and Project Management skills
(e.g. Planning, RAIDs, Stakeholder Management, Requirements gathering, Testing)
in Banking projects.

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Basic understanding of finance and technology in banking
domain.

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Should have experience in managing UAT Cycles, performing
pre-UAT or functional testing.

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Proven experience of operating in a matrix management
framework.

Education/qualifications:

Qualifications (preferred, not mandatory)

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Qualified Accountant

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Understanding of Agile, Kanban, Waterfall methodologies