•  • Provide enterprise-wide leadership and governance of the Bank’s project, programme and change portfolio, ensuring alignment with strategy, regulatory obligations, operating model and strategic priorities. • Establish and continuously enhance the Bank’s Project, Programme and Change Management Framework, including methodologies, governance standards, stage gates, tools, reporting, assurance and delivery practices. • Lead enterprise portfolio prioritisation and optimisation, advising EXCO on initiatives to commence, accelerate, defer or stop based on strategic value, benefits, risk, investment, resource capacity and interdependencies. • Oversee delivery performance of strategic projects and programmes, ensuring clear accountability and timely intervention to achieve agreed scope, timelines, cost, quality, risk and benefits outcomes. • Lead portfolio investment and financial management, including business case development and challenge, project budgets, expenditure, forecasts, investment returns and benefits, with escalation of material variances and investment decisions to EXCO. • Establish and oversee enterprise-wide project assurance and risk governance, including independent reviews, stage gates, health assessments and appropriate consideration of risk, compliance, regulatory, audit, information security, technology and operational resilience requirements. • Lead organisational change and benefits realisation, ensuring major initiatives incorporate impact assessments, stakeholder engagement, readiness, communications, adoption strategies and measurable business, financial, customer and operational benefits. • Drive enterprise resource, capacity and dependency management, identifying competing priorities, critical constraints and crossportfolio dependencies and recommending appropriate interventions to optimise delivery capacity. • Provide EXCO and governance forums with timely, accurate and insightful portfolio reporting, highlighting performance, risks, issues, dependencies, financial position, benefits, decisions required and areas requiring executive intervention. • Build and lead a high-performing PMO and strengthen the Bank’s execution capability, developing project and programme management talent, promoting accountability and delivery excellence, and driving continuous improvement through lessons learned, performance data and industry practice.

Education: • Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Information Technology, Engineering, Project Management or a related discipline. • Recognised Project/Programme Management certification, such as PMP, PRINCE2, MSP or equivalent. • Adep

• Financial Responsibility: Agreed project & process management staff budget to allow for execution of the bank’s program and project portfolio.Skills & Experience:• 10 years of progressive professional experience in project, programme, portfolio, transformation or change management, including at least 3 years at senior management level. • Significant banking or financial services experience, with a strong understanding of the regulatory, risk, governance, operational and technology environment of a regulated financial institution. • Proven enterprise-wide portfolio leadership experience, overseeing complex, strategic and cross-functional projects and programmes with significant financial, operational and organisational impact. • Demonstrated experience establishing and strengthening enterpriseP3M governance, including PMO structures, methodologies, stage gates, portfolio governance, assurance and delivery standards. • Strong financial and commercial acumen, including business case development and challenge, investment prioritisation, budgeting, forecasting, cost management and benefits realisation. • Proven experience leading complex transformation and organisational change, including stakeholder engagement, business readiness, communications, adoption and sustainable benefits realisation. • Strong risk, regulatory and governance expertise, including the integration of regulatory compliance, audit, information security, technology risk and operational resilience requirements into major programmes. • Demonstrated ability to advise and influence EXCO, Board and senior governance forums, providing strategic portfolio insights, investment recommendations, risk escalation and decisions required. • Proven people leadership and capability-building experience, including building and leading high-performing PMO, project and programme teams. • Strong strategic, analytical, problem-solving, communication and influencing skills, with demonstrated ability to make evidence-based decisions and intervene effectively on complex delivery issues. • Track record of driving execution excellence and continuous improvement, using portfolio performance data, lessons learned, industry practices and organisational insights to strengthen enterprise delivery capability.Business Behaviours: • Able to perform analyses for the purpose of assisting in the exploration of strategic options, the development of creative solutions to complex issues, and for the support of decision-making. • An overall business acumen and solid financial grounding as well as a proven and successful track record of developing and driving growth initiatives and identifying business opportunities in order to develop strategies that capitalize on those opportunities. • Able to demonstrate the ability to obtain and filter information, identify key issues relevant to the achievement of long-term strategic goals, and commit to the realized course of action for the purpose of accomplishing those goals. • Knowledge of the business’s risk parameters in order to determine implications for the business and implement measures for risk mitigation. • Ability to clearly communicate information to business-wide leadership, executives, and stakeholders who are pivotal in determining how effectively these strategies will be executed across the business.