Morgan McKinley
Operations Transformation Project Manager
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Ops Transformation Project Manager
Contract until 31 Aug 2027
Belfast based (3 days onsite, 2 days WFH)
Role Purpose
The role will lead operational readiness, delivery planning, dependency management, governance, risk assessment, and migration execution activities as countries transition from the legacy Bank-in-a-Box platform into multiple target applications, operating models, controls, and reconciliation processes.
This position requires an individual who can operate independently across senior stakeholders in Operations, Finance, Technology, Product, Risk, and Programme Management while driving successful delivery of complex, multi-workstream migrations.
Key Responsibilities
Programme Planning & Delivery
- Drive detailed delivery planning across four country migrations.
- Maintain Cross Operations plan factoring in Technology, Finance, Product and Programme dependencies and a significantly suppressed timeline; plus analysing status of jira developments.
- Assess impacts of plan changes on operational readiness and delivery timelines.
- Identify sequencing risks and propose mitigation and acceleration opportunities.
- Track critical milestones, deliverables, dependencies and decisions.
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Migration & Operational Readiness
- Coordinate operational readiness activities for country migrations.
- Support migration dress rehearsals and production cutover planning.
- Track completion of entitlements, SOPs, controls, training and readiness criteria.
- Drive operational go-live scorecards and readiness reporting.
- Ensure operational risks are identified, assessed and escalated appropriately.
Governance & Stakeholder Management
- Provide summaries for weekly working groups.
- Produce executive-level status reporting.
- Track programme actions, decisions, risks and issues.
- Maintain transparency of delivery status, blockers and escalation items.
- Partner with senior stakeholders across Operations, Finance, Technology and Risk functions.
Risk & Dependency Management
- Assess operational risks arising from migration decisions, design changes and delivery sequencing.
- Perform impact assessments across multiple workstreams and countries.
- Drive remediation plans for identified issues.
- Challenge assumptions and delivery approaches where required.
- Escalate emerging risks to programme leadership.
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Transformation Support
- Support post-implementation daily reviews and stabilization activities.
- Monitor lessons learned and implement continuous improvement actions.
- Assist with future country planning and migration strategy development.
- Contribute to development of repeatable migration frameworks and governance processes.
Required Experience
- 8+ years programme or project management experience within Financial Services.
- Experience delivering large-scale transformation programmes.
- Strong knowledge of banking operations and operational readiness activities.
- Experience managing multi-country migrations or platform transformations.
- Proven track record managing complex dependency networks.
- Strong risk management and governance experience.
- Experience producing senior management and executive reporting.
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders and challenge constructively.
- Advanced PowerPoint, Excel and project planning skills.
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