Assistant Vice President - Regulatory Change Project Manager

Financial Crime and Compliance (FC&C) department is responsible for ensuring that all financial crime and compliance risks within the Bank are identified, managed or mitigated. It establishes and maintains the Bank’s regulatory communications, compliance risk management, regulatory reporting and compliance advisory. As an Assistant Vice President – Regulatory Change Project Manager, you will be responsible for supporting the Regulatory Compliance team to enhance and further embed the Bank’s Conduct Risk Framework, including Consumer Duty, and to manage regulatory changes related to the Automatic Exchange of Information (AEoI). In addition, project management support will be required for any other significant Regulatory Compliance changes that may come into effect and require implementation by FC&C. This is a 12 month full time fixed term contract position.

Key Responsibilities

• Support and coordinate with key stakeholders in the department assigned to the project to ensure the project is delivered on time and to agreed requirements
• Collaborate with the Head of FC&C department and key senior and business stakeholders across different departments to help define and agree how the project should be implemented
• Collaborate with Head Office, London Branch and IT Centre (Europe) to ensure IT projects are effectively and timely delivered
• Advise on industry best practice and change / project management standards to ensure the project is delivered effectively
• Provide tailored status reporting and advice to key project stakeholders to keep them up to date with progress, risks, issues and plans
• Help drive continuous improvement in the department’s project delivery approach through sharing experience, examples of best practice, development of innovative and user-friendly tools, thought leadership and strategic thinking

Requirements

• Degree educated in Finance, Business, Economics, or Accounting
• Demonstrated experience working on large-scale, complex change programmes in Financial Services ideally in a global or Investment Banking environment
• Hands-on experience of regulatory change projects in a global banking environment
• Proven track record of delivering complex changes across multiple departments, including front office and back office
• Experience working with First, Second and Third Line of Defence teams and processes
• Solid knowledge of working across global systems and processes
• Demonstrable experience with Project Management methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile
• Solid experience across all steps in the Project Management lifecycle
• Good understanding of Personal, Corporate and Wholesale Banking services and products
• Solid knowledge of data management and architecture, operations processes
• Excellent communication skills
• Able to work collaboratively and build relationships with people at all levels of the organisation
• Highly organised
• Adaptable and solution oriented
• Proficient in MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

Having a presence in the UK for more than 90 years, Bank of China London Branch has been providing an excellent financial service to the market and maintain its competitive edge as an international bank operated in the UK. It has employees in over 33 countries, and it is one of the most internationalised overseas branch in the Bank of China Group. The Bank values the diversity of its employees and aims to create an inclusive environment where everyone can speak up and enjoy the equal opportunities to grow both personally and professionally.