Senior Project Coordinator

ID de la solicitud: 266976

Programa de Referido de Empleados – Probable Pago: $0,00

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Contributes to the overall success of the Transition Management Office in Scotia GBS ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives.  Ensures all activities conducted are in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

Accountabilities 

•    Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.

1)    Deliver large, complex projects, ensuring outcomes for each project are achieved in accordance with an agreed schedule, scope, and budget, by:
•    Planning, securing and scheduling resources, development of detailed project plans, monitoring progress against planned objectives, conducting financial reviews, and securing consensus and co-operation from users, project team members and senior management. 
•    Understanding associated impacts to the transition and local regulatory of each country to be served.  
•    Proactively identify dependencies, issues, and risks, and recommend corrective actions to mitigate
•    Facilitating and chairing project meetings and committees
•    Preparing high-quality, timely and accurate progress reporting. Accountable for all project-level status and risks/issues reporting, decision collection, change analysis, and project plan updates.
•    Working with finance resources to maintain the project benefit model - tracking and reporting
•    Negotiating with those responsible to finalize all recommendations, scope, directions and project plans.

2)    Be accountable for the achievement of key milestones for each transition project by:
•    Ensuring plans, actions and recommendations are aligned to the overall business and operational goals of the correspondent transition. 
•    Analyzing, defining, and working with Process Owners and Project Leaders to implement Scotiabank business policies and procedures in processes and services to be provided by GBS.
•    Identifying risks to implementation and ensures that mitigation plans are assessed.
3)    Implementation of the transition planning and follow-up methodology by:
•    Leading the initial planning process and creation of building blocks and project plan.
•    Developing/maintaining a consolidated project plan which incorporates all business, technology, and operational aspects of the projects.
•    Creating and maintain all project documentation.
•    Ensuring that links between Processes, Products, Service Level Agreements, Technology, Operations and HR are identified and fits into the overall business/operational goals of the projects.
•    Assisting in the development of supplemental business cases as required
4)    Lead the implementation of each transition/project by:
•    Resolving multi-faceted problems, which are often unstructured and without precedent, to meet the business needs.  
•    Communication of key decisions to management.
•    Providing program oversight, ensuring progress against plan is documented and that synergies committed have been realized for each project.
•    Working independently to resolve project issues and escalating them to the Project Leader or the Head of Service Unit in GSG where appropriate.
•    Effectively tracking/monitoring/managing all transition/project budgets
•    Escalating and coordinate issues as required

•    Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.

•    Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of their respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational, compliance, AML/ATF/sanctions and conduct risk. 

•    Champions a high performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment. 

Education / Experience / Other Information 

•    Degree in Engineering, Business, Operations, Processes, or related field. PMP or related certification is highly desirable.
•    Experienced in leading multi-disciplined projects, preferably in banking processes or financial sector.
•    2-3 years as Project Manager working experience. Implementation/merger/integration projects and/or divesture would be an asset.
•    Competency in English (B2) and Spanish.
•    Willing to travel internationally on an occasional basis.
•    Project Management and Execution:  success in leading and managing complex projects, demonstrating PMO methodologies for plan, risk, issue, and decision management and reporting.
•    Executive Communications:  strong content creation and presentation skills, to clearly capture, shape, and convey messages to an executive audience. High degree of bilingual Spanish/English proficiency. Excellent written/verbal communication and interpersonal skills. 
•    Problem Solving Facilitation:  ability to facilitate problem solving sessions and lead project team through a methodical approach to identifying, clarifying, and scoping issues, followed by solution definition and planning; strong analytical capabilities to model and solve problems individually
•    Business Finance / Modeling Foundations:  demonstrated understanding and application of fundamental finance knowledge; ability to create and/or manage basic financial or forecasting models for project planning and benefit tracking and reporting.
•    Self-starter with ability to balance competing/ conflicting goals of various stakeholders, requiring a mature, diplomatic approach and highly developed negotiation and influencing skills.
•    Ability to build and leverage strategic working relationships. Demonstrated ability to strategically think, influence and communicate throughout all levels of the organization in a fast-paced environment.
•    Leadership:  leading teams of project members to achieve overall project-level goals. Ability to build relationships and influence across all stakeholders through strong interpersonal skills and consensus building.
•    Ability to work in a high-performance environment
•    Results oriented under time pressures, with a proactive approach to activity completion.

Working Conditions

• Work in a standard office-based environment; non-standard hours are a common occurrence. 
• The incumbent must work under tight deadlines, conflicting priorities and changing project requirements.  Must be able to react quickly to resolve problems and work overtime on many occasions to meet project deadlines. 
• The incumbent requires a high degree of adaptability for both meeting attendance and frequent “informal” checking on progress and “reality”.
• During transitions the level of uncertainty within the moved process is high, necessitating relationship building with key employees. 
• Unplanned delays can cause disruption in personal lifestyle.
• Cultural differences and language barriers can add to mental stress and fatigue.
• Seldom international travel, departures on weekends may be necessary.

Ubicación(s):  Colombia : Bogota : Bogota

ScotiaGBS forma parte del grupo de empresas de Scotiabank ubicado en Bogotá, Colombia, y fue creado para apoyar diversos procesos del Banco y el desarrollo y ejecución de su estrategia global de servicios en 15 países de las Américas. Está compuesto por 7 unidades de servicio. Ofrecemos un ambiente de trabajo inclusivo y positivo, además de ventajas competitivas.

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