Job Description

Job description
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HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.





Cybersecurity is responsible for enabling businesses and functions to manage their information security risks as well as ensuring risk and controls are assessed and implemented appropriately, objectively and independently through professional and specialized subject matter experts.





Cybersecurity Strategy & Execution function brings together RTB operations and CTB delivery to ensure that all activities are aligned to a single strategy. In alignment with this vision, a Centre of Excellence (CoE) is being set-up to establish Cyber delivery capabilities (technical & non-technical roles) aligned to the overall workforce and location strategy of the department.



This Senior Project Manager role is an internal role and will be accountable for standing up and maturing the CoE demand management process, ultimately contributes to the success of the COE and ensuring benefits realisation in line with strategy and plan. The Senior Project Manager role is strategic in nature and will report to the Head of Cybersecurity Programme Delivery.

Primary Responsibilities

Manage weekly TRCB Clarity RAG ( all RAID associated with the project / program) for SSP (evergreening) related items

Maintain and manage the TRCB / risk related change record for SSP (evergreening) related items

Participate in various TRCB meeting forums and provide extended support to the working groups for SSP (evergreening) related items

Manage weekly data extraction and cross merge to produce latest open evergreening issues and status for ITSO, addition of new issues and updates on hosts within the issues

Work with ITSOs on status updates and plans and IRDs for new issues

Provide inputs for annual budget planning for evergreening for Cyber

Fortnightly IRD upload to keep GRAS risk indicator Green

Maintain and manage master evergreening database

Ad-hoc evergreening queries

Provide inputs for IT Resilience Steering Committee deck

Manage project escalations Manage overall project / program governance

Principal Accountabilities: key activities and decision-making areas

Typical Targets and Measures

Impact on the Business/Function

Drive risk remediation for Cyber by addressing evergreening BoW

Participate is monthly budget forecast process

Manage / support relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Ad hoc / support the senior Project / Programme mangers across all stages of the initiative lifecycle to deliver larger / more complex / high priority Programmes & Projects

Drive / support the adoption of HSBC standards and work in alignment with Change framework at all times.

Manage / support the development and promotion of the technology portfolio and project management practices. Manage negotiation with relationships with and service agreement monitoring of external suppliers, including technology suppliers.

Measures benefits and improvements over the short, medium, and long term, and make recommendations for continues improvement. Translates the required course of action into a clear and realistic vision by delivering operational level solutions and plans.

Demonstrates activities are planned and delivered in line with agreed plan and cost. Demonstrates and applies excellent business domain knowledge.

Delivers high levels of transparency related to the operational status

Report progress, issues, dependencies and risks to steering committees / initiative leadership and make recommendations to influence decision making in order to maintain progress towards delivery and benefits realisation

Customers / Stakeholders

Customer focus. Lead a customer-centred culture, championing activities encouraging outstanding customer advocacy. The role will involve interaction with a variety of key stakeholders groups that include Cyber capability owners, SPMs, COO Teams, Finance teams, external suppliers, local support functions.

Strengthening stakeholder relationships. Enhances key relationships in global Cybersecurity and local IT. Cultivates strong relationships with organisationally important global and local stakeholders with a tailored approach. Understanding markets and customers. Understands the financial services industry security and threat landscape. Analyses, interprets and communicates developments in the customer's and business segment's local marketplace.


Help delivery of projects in line with expectations of the internal customer. Demonstrates sensitivity to the realities and concerns of their stakeholders' situation

Analyses and interprets the changing security landscape.

Leadership & Teamwork

Actively seeks to engage a diverse group of stakeholders and is open to challenge and is contructive in presenting solutions and ideas to drive forward strategic objectives. Oversee and support the Project team as required. Create a collaboration environment and fosters a collabortive approach to working with all key customers and stakeholders.

Proactively leverages knowledge of the HSBC organisation to find solutions to challenges. Takes the initiative and is willing to define plans and actions in the absence of direction. Enthusiastic about learning new topics and understanding industry trends in the space of controls improvements e.g. NIST FSS framework.

Demonstrate Leadership across all assigned work and initiatives. Identifying and address areas for continuous improvement.


Identifies and builds relationships with key contacts and influencers (internally and externally) in order to enhance business and stakeholder outcomes. Identifies and builds relationships with key contacts and influencers. Translates the required course of action into a clear and realistic vision.

Takes full ownership of all work, escalating if required, but demonstrating own ability to navigate and resolve challenges to best of own ability

Operational Effectiveness & Control:

Governs risk responsibly. Promotes efficient management of risk placing measures to ensure effective risk mitigation

Proactively looks to improve, streamline and enhance operational processes

Embeds efficient risk and compliance processes and procedures by thoroughly reviewing all work with the appropriate teams and sponsors before disseminating to a wider group of stakeholders. Demonstrates effective financial skills to develop a detailed business case, including investments, detailed benefits (financial, non-financial and strategic) and link to overall finances of the function.

Creates an environment that anticipates risk, ensuring action is taken to quantify and mitigate them.

Implements best practice in the way projects are governed and tracked.

Builds plans and budgets which identify value and cost reduction opportunities. Ensures reconciliation of expenditure against completed work and benefits realisation; recommends how to tackle any variance.



Requirements

Job requirement

Manage local expectations and requirements, within current global processes.

Internal and external relationships. Operate with transparency and consistency in the relationships with the key stakeholder groups. Build an effective working relationship with Control Owners as well other Cybersecurity functions within and outside S , Build partnership with local and global team.

Must-have skills:

Minimum bachelor's degree with Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Minimum 8 to 10 years of Core IT Project management experience with over 14 to 16 years of IT Experience in a large-scale Financial Services environment or global corporate service provider

Strong understanding of Change the bank and Run the bank concepts

Strong understanding and experience of IT project life cycle & methodologies (waterfall/agile)

Strong communication and senior stakeholder Management experience located globally

Experience of managing / working on projects in Cybersecurity, Information security, Risk & Controls

Strong experience using in PowerPoint, JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow, SharePoint and Excel for analysis and project status reporting

Experience of managing IT evergreening projects

Desirable skills:

PMP or any other PM certification and/or Certification in Agile Certification in Cybersecurity, Information security Knowledge of estimation, budgeting & forecasting, performance evaluation and change management principles. Understanding of industry standard controls frameworks (e.g. NIST FSS)

Positive and professional attitude, team player, flexible and adaptable, open to change(s) ,Confident and takes responsibility and ownership for work and personal development.

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Issued by - HSBC Software Development India