About BNP Paribas India Solutions:
Established in 2005, BNP Paribas India Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of BNP Paribas SA, European Union’s leading bank with an international reach. With delivery centers located in Bengaluru, Chennai and Mumbai, we are a 24x7 global delivery center. India Solutions services three business lines: Corporate and Institutional Banking, Investment Solutions and Retail Banking for BNP Paribas across the Group. Driving innovation and growth, we are harnessing the potential of over 10000 employees, to provide support and develop best-in-class solutions.
About BNP Paribas Group:
BNP Paribas is the European Union’s leading bank and key player in international banking. It operates in 65 countries and has nearly 185,000 employees, including more than 145,000 in Europe. The Group has key positions in its three main fields of activity: Commercial, Personal Banking & Services for the Group’s commercial & personal banking and several specialized businesses including BNP Paribas Personal Finance and Arval; Investment & Protection Services for savings, investment, and protection solutions; and Corporate & Institutional Banking, focused on corporate and institutional clients. Based on its strong diversified and integrated model, the Group helps all its clients (individuals, community associations, entrepreneurs, SMEs, corporates and institutional clients) to realize their projects through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings and protection insurance. In Europe, BNP Paribas has four domestic markets: Belgium, France, Italy, and Luxembourg. The Group is rolling out its integrated commercial & personal banking model across several Mediterranean countries, Turkey, and Eastern Europe. As a key player in international banking, the Group has leading platforms and business lines in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas as well as a solid and fast-growing business in Asia-Pacific. BNP Paribas has implemented a Corporate Social Responsibility approach in all its activities, enabling it to contribute to the construction of a sustainable future, while ensuring the Group's performance and stability
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
At BNP Paribas, we passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued, respected and can bring their authentic selves to work. We prohibit Discrimination and Harassment of any kind and our policies promote equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants, irrespective of, but not limited to their gender, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, colour, national origin, age, religion, social status, mental or physical disabilities, veteran status etc. As a global Bank, we truly believe that inclusion and diversity of our teams is key to our success in serving our clients and the communities we operate in.
About Business line/Function:
2S-HVP IT comprises of Payment and Treasury applications that supports Securities Services to provide an Integrated Treasury Services by Securing and automating connectivity, tracking balances, forecasting, payment initiation, funding & optimizing yield.
Optimising clients’ cash flow processing on a global scale RTGS Management Platform, Multi Market, Multi Currency, High Value Payments (HVP) Used across 13 Branches with 50+ applications sending Cash instructions.
MTM, aka Money Transfer Management is an application that caters to Money Transfer needs for 16 branches in BP2S.It is used for both inter and intra bank money transfers via different messages like SWIFT, SIC, messages to ARPE, etc. Being an application used for Money transfer it considered as Tier I application in terms of Criticality in whole BNP Paris Group.
Job Title:
Senior Project Manager - HVP IT
Date:
30-May-2025
Department:
BP2S
Location:
Chennai
Business Line / Function:
HVP
Reports to:
(Direct)
Grade:
(if applicable)
NA
(Functional)
Number of Direct Reports:
8
Directorship / Registration:
NA
Position Purpose
· Manage IT teams, set goals, individual objectives and constantly monitor progress.
· Responsible for overall delivery of the IT team and explore ways to improve efficiency
· Implement strategies, oversee collaboration and define success metrics.
· Exposure to UAT cycle, support activities and managing stakeholders.
· Design and implement the best practices, annual plans for IT projects.
Responsibilities
Direct Responsibilities.
· Responsible for the overall quality of IT delivery for the managed application.
· Supervise all projects handled by the team and ensure KPI’s are tracked and reported.
· Ensure the Business Analyst, Developers and Testers work with good collaboration.
· Good stakeholder management with regular communication with project sponsors, clients, external vendors, and other important stakeholders.
· Communicate ideas and develop strategy through presentations, demonstrations and specifications, supports and develops team members by providing guidance, coaching and knowledge sharing
· Evaluate projects to ensure their adherence to guidelines, milestones, budget and governance metrics
· Manages risks and effectively plan its mitigation.
· Facilitate meetings to unblock situation or to resolve critical issues.
· Drive Steering committee and all other governance related actions.
· Monitor the performance of team members along with their succession, career growth plan etc.
· Maintain skill matrix and plan trainings on upskilling the team.
· Ensures deliverables created as per Quality Management practices agreed as outlined for the project/release.
· Work with business analysts/users to understand requirements & help the IT team to develop good quality deliverables.
Technical & Behavioral Competencies
Skills:
· Strong domain knowledge on Capital Markets with expert insights into Payment process and its IT applications.
· Knowledge on payments domain concepts with experience on any one of Correspondent Banking, Global Banking, European RTGS settlement platforms.
· Good understanding of SWIFT payment and reporting messages.
· Experience on implementation of new ISO20022 SWIFT payment message types (Pacs and camt message types) is desired.
· Experience on Managing projects with Java, Oracle PL/SQL, Angular technologies.
· Good hands-on experience on Agile practices.
· Exposure to Project Management tools
· Attention to detail, disciplined and reliable.
· Proactive, confident and high motivation levels.
· Project Management experience for 5+ years.
Specific Qualifications (if required)
Skills Referential
Behavioural Skills: (Please select up to 4 skills)
Ability to deliver / Results driven
Ability to collaborate / Teamwork
Communication skills - oral & written
Adaptability
Transversal Skills: (Please select up to 5 skills)
Ability to develop others & improve their skills
Ability to manage a project
Ability to understand, explain and support change
Ability to develop others & improve their skills
Ability to set up relevant performance indicators
Education Level:
Bachelor Degree or equivalent
Experience Level
At least 10 years
Other/Specific Qualifications (if required)
