Programme Manager

Description:

Programme Manager – Enterprise Change & Regulatory Delivery

• Accountable for end to end delivery of complex, high risk programmes within a Tier 1 banking environment (typically large scale, multi year initiatives).
  


• Manage programme funding and resourcing, ensuring alignment to approved budgets and delivery timelines.
  


• Create and drive plans to achieve FSA outcomes, working closely with all key stakeholders including Architecture, Cyber Security, Infrastructure, and Platform teams.
  


• Coordinate and manage Proof of Concept (PoC) timelines, ensuring clear entry/exit criteria and stakeholder alignment.
  


• Lead the development and delivery of solution proposals, ensuring technical, commercial, and risk considerations are fully addressed.
  


• Lead delivery across multiple interdependent business and technology workstreams, ensuring alignment to strategic and regulatory objectives.
  


• Operate confidently within highly regulated environments, adhering to governance, risk, and control frameworks.
  


• Provide regular, clear, and credible CxO level reporting, including updates to senior executives and governance forums.
  


• Act as a trusted delivery partner, offering objective challenge and informed recommendations at senior leadership level.
  


• Coordinate closely with Risk, Compliance, Audit, and Control functions to ensure ongoing regulatory alignment.
  


• Support and contribute to regulatory driven initiatives and regulator facing programmes where required.
  


• Ensure programmes remain audit ready, with clear documentation, delivery artefacts, and decision traceability.
  


• Manage programme scope, milestones, dependencies, and delivery outcomes across internal teams and third party suppliers.
  


• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate delivery, operational, and regulatory risks.
  


• Ensure alignment between programme delivery and operational readiness, including transition into BAU.
  


• Translate complex initiatives into clear, structured plans and actionable outcomes.
  


• Balance pace of delivery with appropriate risk, resilience, and control considerations.
  


• Demonstrate strong leadership presence in high pressure, high visibility environments.
  


• Communicate with clarity, precision, and authority, tailoring messaging for senior and executive audiences.
  


• Mandarin language capability is a mandatory requirement for this role.
  


• Prior HSBC experience is highly desirable; alternatively, strong experience within large scale banking or financial services organisations.