Lead Project Manager, FATCA/CRS (Secondment)

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JOB TITLE: Lead Project Manager, FATCA/CRS (Fixed Term Contract)

SALARY: From £59,850

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, Sighthill North

HOURS: Full- time, 12-month Fixed Term Contract

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

About this Opportunity

This is a fantastic opportunity to join our CIB Rectification & Remediation (R&R) team. We are a very flexible team with our primary goal of putting things right when things have gone wrong for our clients. The R&R portfolio is varied, high-profile and always challenging.

What you’ll be doing

You will lead your delivery team to ensure the fundamentals of Project Management excellence are achieved, this includes analysis, governance, planning, managing finances and delivering value. You will also role model a desire to develop skills and experience, create space to learn and collaborate, demonstrate resilience and adaptability, confidence and display confidence to innovate and test new ideas. Coaching others in their team to achieve delivery excellence is also a key part of the role.

In addition, we work closely within our teams and across business units to understand and correct what has gone wrong, to ensure our clients are treated fairly and to make sure the lessons are learned. We enable the business to maintain the highest levels of service to our clients whilst fully adhering to all regulatory standards and requirements. We also feel empowered to challenge thinking and behaviours in an open, safe, and innovative environment.

Within Rectification & Remediation we're passionate about creating a positive space allowing us to deliver at our best and we welcome you to come join our continuous journey in transformation.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive

About you

• You have excellent project management skills, and builds and maintains effective working and influencing relationships with appropriate colleagues and stakeholders

• You'll be a capable negotiator, analytical thinker and problem solver who will influence positively

• A natural leader who'll mentor and support junior colleagues to 'deliver best in class'

• You're a dynamic and adaptable individual who can use and learn new skills and knowledge in varying circumstances and confident in using your own judgment

• Capable of working in pressured and challenging situations, you’re calm, structured and a reassurance to colleagues and partners

What you’ll need

• Proven experience leading change projects from idea to implementation delivering to agreed scope, cost, quality, and timescale

• Call out delivery risks where required to ensure that releases and backlog initiatives are not delayed

• Build and maintain effective working and influencing relationships with appropriate colleagues, proactively answering queries and following up actions with stakeholders

• Oversee design, build, route to live and implementation

• Ensuring sign off for all accountable deliverables

• Proficient in LBG’s change lifecycles and supporting governance

• Experience working in an agile team and able to facilitate various Agile processes such as Daily Stand-up, Release Planning, Backlog Refinement, Retrospective, Sprint Review

• Planning of roadmap initiatives whilst considering dependencies, upstream and downstream impacts

• Deep understanding of FATCA/CRS frameworks: Beyond annual reporting, knowledge of due diligence rules, account classification, and remediation obligations

• Data analysis and validation: Ability to interpret large datasets, identify discrepancies, and ensure compliance with reporting standards

• Tax and compliance awareness: Familiarity with global tax regulations and how they interact with FATCA/CRS requirements

• Audit readiness: Preparing documentation and evidence for internal/external audits

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Previous experience of remediations

• Understanding of the Remediation and Rectification lifecycle

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme. 

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team Apply today.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks.  We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. 

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.