Project Manager

In Asia Pacific, BNP Paribas is one of the best-positioned international financial institutions with an uninterrupted presence since 1860. Currently with over 18,000 employees* and a presence in 13 markets, BNP Paribas provides corporates, institutional and private investors with product and service solutions tailored to their specific needs. It offers a wide range of financial services covering corporate & institutional banking, wealth management, asset management, insurance, as well as retail banking and consumer financing through strategic partnerships.

Worldwide, BNP Paribas has a presence in 68 markets with more than 193,000 employees. It has key positions in its three main activities: Domestic Markets and International Financial Services (whose retail-banking networks and financial services are covered by Retail Banking & Services) and Corporate & Institutional Banking, which serves two client franchises: corporate clients and institutional investors. Asia Pacific is a key strategic region for BNP Paribas and it continues to develop its franchise in the region.
- excluding partnerships

At BNP Paribas, we passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued, respected and can bring their authentic selves to work. We prohibit Discrimination and Harassment of any kind and our policies promote equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants, irrespective of, but not limited to their gender, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, colour, national origin, age, religion, social status, mental or physical disabilities, veteran status etc. As a global Bank, we truly believe that inclusion and diversity of our teams is key to our success in serving our clients and the communities we operate in.

**POSITION PURPOSE**:
Within CIB (Corporate and Institutional Banking), the Business line Global Banking is recognized universally for its expertise and its know-how.

APAC GB Projects & Change team is at the heart of Global Banking, playing a critical role in enabling new business and projects across Global Banking, contributing to alignment between Front Office and Functions, as well as being the architects (end-to-end) of the Global Banking Value Chain.

The team hosts 2 main mandates:

- The Project Leads for vertical (front-office to accounting) or transversal (across several business lines or users groups or locations/entities) projects during all its life cycle (from design to completion). The team leads projects initiated from the APAC region or leads the regional stream of Global/non-APAC projects.
- The Business Process Subject Matter Expert to assist the business in the design and review of their new business initiatives and exceptional trades and to represent IT, Operations and in some cases Finance, at new business approval committees: Transaction Approval Committee (“TAC”) and New Activity Committee (“NAC”).

The key interactions are with the project sponsors, Front-office and all the functions (Operations, IT, Finance, as well as Compliance, Legal and Tax) mainly within Global Banking business lines but we also step in at some occasions on projects involving Global Markets, Wealth Management or Securities Services.

The team reports hierarchically to the CIB APAC ITO Operations head.

**Responsibilities**

**1) Project Leads**

**Preliminary step: project framing**
- Clarify the objective, the scope, the dependencies, the major risks & issues
- Confirm the sponsorship
- Ensure a clear business rationale is associated to the contemplated project (incl. high level ROI), identify benefits
- Size roughly the effort required to design the solution & execute the project
- Identify contributors to be on-boarded for the study

**Study / Design phase**:

- Clearly state the business requirements, cost and time-frame of the project
- Coordinate & challenge experts to put together a solution meeting the business requirements
- Identify risk and dependencies that could jeopardize project execution
- Establish the full financial of the project (cost, associated revenues or savings)
- Design the project governance (roles & responsibilities, governance bodies, stakeholders’ identification)
- Design project roadmap (i.e. the overall execution plan)
- Secure the resource plan (skills, capacity) and prioritization / funding for those resources

**Execution phase**:

- Drive the execution of the roadmap
- Ensure aligned project status/progress is shared amongst the project community
- Identify risk & issues and propose a mitigation action plan
- Raise alerts / escalate issues / review the roadmap if required
- Monitor the budget consumption
- Monitor the feedback from contributors on project management and adjust when required
- Prepare and chair governance bodies, produce adequate reporting, communicate

**Completion phase**:

- Collect feedback from project participants
- Identify good practices/factors of success