# Senior Consultant Specialist **Company**: GCIO **Location**: Guangzhou, Guangdong **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: IT **Industry**: Finance **Apply**: https://portal.careers.hsbc.com/careers/job/563774612466017?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_e9a9cb91-327 ## Description We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Senior Consultant Specialist. **Principal responsibilities** - Significant experience in a PMO, programme management, project management or portfolio management environment. - Experience supporting complex, large-scale technology or transformation programmes. - Strong understanding of programme governance, planning, RAID management, financial control and management reporting. - Experience working with senior stakeholders across multiple functions, locations or business areas. - Demonstrable experience analysing complex information and presenting clear recommendations. - Experience managing competing priorities in a fast-paced and changing environment. - Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint; experience with project, portfolio or reporting tools is desirable. - Experience in financial services, banking or a highly regulated environment is desirable. - Relevant professional qualification, such as PMP, PRINCE2, MSP, MoP, P3O or equivalent, is desirable. **Programme and Portfolio Governance** - Establish and maintain appropriate governance structures, controls and reporting routines for programmes and portfolios. - Coordinate programme governance forums, including preparation of agendas, papers, minutes, actions and decision logs. - Ensure that programme documentation is complete, current and aligned with HSBC standards. - Monitor adherence to agreed delivery methodology, governance requirements and control frameworks. - Support the preparation of executive-level updates and portfolio reviews. **Planning and Delivery Management** - Maintain integrated programme plans, milestones, dependencies and critical paths. - Track delivery progress against scope, schedule, budget, benefits and quality objectives. - Identify slippage, delivery risks and cross-team dependencies, escalating matters through the appropriate channels. - Coordinate planning activities across technology, business, operations, risk, finance and other control functions. - Support programme mobilisation, delivery transitions, closure and lessons-learned activities. **Risk, Issue and Dependency Management** - Maintain programme-level RAID logs covering risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies. - Facilitate regular reviews with workstream leads and ensure actions have clear owners and due dates. - Assess the potential impact of risks and issues on delivery, customers, colleagues, controls and regulatory commitments. - Escalate material concerns in a timely and concise manner, with practical recommendations. - Track mitigation plans through to completion and challenge overdue or ineffective actions. **Financial and Resource Management** - Support budget planning, forecasting, tracking and variance analysis. - Monitor vendor, supplier and external resource costs where applicable. - Coordinate resource planning across workstreams and identify capacity or capability gaps. - Provide accurate financial and resource information for governance meetings and management decisions. - Work with Finance and delivery leads to ensure that financial data is timely, complete and appropriately evidenced. **Management Information and Reporting** - Produce clear, accurate and insightful status reports for senior stakeholders. - Consolidate data from multiple workstreams and validate key information before publication. - Develop and maintain dashboards, KPIs and delivery metrics. - Highlight trends, exceptions and emerging concerns rather than simply reporting activity. - Ensure reporting is tailored to the audience, from detailed working-level information to concise executive summaries. **Stakeholder and Team Collaboration** - Build effective relationships with senior stakeholders and delivery teams across business and technology functions. - Coordinate cross-boundary activities and promote consistent ways of working. - Facilitate workshops and working sessions to resolve planning, governance and delivery matters. - Provide guidance and coaching to PMO analysts and less experienced colleagues. - Encourage constructive challenge, transparency and shared accountability across the programme. ## Skills ### Required - Microsoft Office - Excel - PowerPoint - project management - portfolio management - programme governance - RAID management - financial control - management reporting ### Nice to have - PMP - PRINCE2 - MSP - MoP - P3O --- Source: [Apply at portal.careers.hsbc.com](https://portal.careers.hsbc.com/careers/job/563774612466017?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)