Job Description

Job Purpose

• The Transition Lead will be accountable for successful delivery of transition projects from the business unit across GFSSC Hubs through the complete lifecycle of concept to business-as-usual service delivery.
• The Transition Lead will ensure all transition projects in the region/hubs or assigned are delivered on time, meeting business & technical requirements within the agreed budget.
• The projects can be standalone or part of a work stream in a program with a higher degree of complexity and will require to be delivered through a team of transition managers and business analysts and in certain cases through self-candidature as well.
• All transition projects need to be delivered in compliance with the GFSSC transition management delivery standard.

Job OverviewKey Responsibilities

• Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with relevant GFSSC stakeholders.
• Develop comprehensive project plans and schedule timelines using appropriate tools.
• Deliver a project portfolio as per pre-defined milestones, leading timely completion of all deliverables whilst managing resources, deadlines and budgetary requirements.
• Effectively communicate and manage project expectations in a timely and clear fashion.
• Review the work packages for each workstream owner. Validate schedule, dependencies, and resource utilisation across work plans.
• Own management of stakeholder expectation alignment gaps and/or gaps in meeting client expectations
• Establish project governance including all GFSSC stakeholders and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation and presentations.
• Ensure all projects are maintained in the central project portfolio management tool. Maintain rigor as per the predefined program/project governance and ensure project reporting is accurate and concise.
• Identify and resolve project risks/issues and potential conflicts within the project team - oversee the implementation of corrective actions and review current mitigation and recovery activities.
• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path.
• Build, develop, and grow any business relationships vital to the success of the project.
• Continually analyse lessons learned and create a recommendations report to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.
• Comply with project management standards and register mandatory project deliverables for quality assurance purposes.

Skills & Experience

• Relevant experience in GFSSC transitions (preferably in Finance)
• Experience in managing multiple teams and capabilities to deliver complete complex project scope.
• Proven track record managing multiple stakeholders effectively.
• Experience of working in fast-paced, high-demand, delivery-oriented environments
• Strong computer literacy and advanced user of MS Office applications (e.g. Microsoft Project, Power Point, Excel etc.).
• Ability to apply thought leadership in providing services and solutions to customers.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills at all levels of the organisation.
• Strong commercial acumen and understanding of customer impacts.
• Exposure in Agile tools/methodologies and Global Finance SSC transitions
• Experience managing delivery of business cases by monitoring costs and value delivered and intervening with corrective action when necessary to achieve commercial outcomes.
• A transition lead is empowered to choke (halt) a transition if it is not being executed within the prescribed guidelines of the GFSSC Transition methodology.

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