Senior Consultant Specialist

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.