Business Planning Manager
London Area, United Kingdom
Business Planning Manager - Investment Banking (Top-tier Bank)
Contract: 9 months (inside IR35)
Location: London, UK
Flexi: Hybrid (2 days per week onsite max)
JOB SCOPE
The role holder will be responsible for managing the office of the CSO, coordinating across workstreams, projects and deliverables. The successful candidate will assist the CSO with the execution of the sustainability strategy and support development of the business priorities, ensuring alignment with other key stakeholders internally. The candidate will provide senior level oversight on key sustainability matters and need to navigate the bank to ensure key stakeholders are kept abreast of developments and involved in executing on deliverables.
The successful candidate will need excellent communication skills (oral, written and presentation), strong stakeholder engagement skills, be results-orientated, able to juggle competing priorities (often under time pressure) and have a proactive and can-do attitude.
This is an excellent opportunity for a candidate to gain senior-level exposure and develop a strong working knowledge of sustainability and sustainable finance.
Responsibilities
Strategy
Act as a primary function-wide contact and triage point for internal and external stakeholders to connect with the CSO organisation
Provide strategic guidance and senior oversight of executive-level presentations including for CIB MT, Group MT, CSC Board and PLC Board
Support on budgeting process and support a disciplined budget and cost approach across the team
Support the embedding of the Sustainability agenda across the Group by sharing relevant updates and information with internal stakeholders within CSO organisation and beyond
Support junior resources in the Disclosures team to help guide horizon scanning to identify sustainability trends relevant to the business and wider sustainability strategy
Collaborate with sustainability comms to develop engagement plans for key set-piece events to maximise the impact of CSO / CSO MT presence at events (e.g. COP, Davos, Climate Weeks)
Act as a sounding board for the wider team on key initiatives and strategic projects
Business
Manage the schedule and quality/timely submission of all Sustainability related papers/ updates to CIB MT, and the Group Management Team and Board Committees (CSC, Board, Subsidiary Boards) and translate often technical input and information, alongside commercial analysis into executive level-outputs
Work collaboratively both across the SF business and with wider CCIB and CPBB representatives to support gathering of key performance data and achievements
Act as a key conduit between Sustainability Comms and marketing to assist in the positioning and messaging internally and externally of the Sustainability Strategy
Support the delivery of the Group’s annual sustainability disclosure cycle
Support the creation of key messaging and content for thought leadership,
Processes
Fulfil selected COO functions e.g. mapping of job families, maintenance of cost centres, support for raising of JDs and hiring processes
Act as the point-person for certain operational matters e.g. business continuity planning
Oversee processes including new joiner onboarding,
Look to create leverage and capacity for the CSO and other CSO MT/LT members
Key Stakeholders
Members from across the CSO organisation and in particular the CSO MT and LT
Key business partners in both CIB and CPBB
Key functional partners (e.g. CABM, CFCC)
Fellow BPMs across the network
Qualifications
Degree (BA or equivalent)
Very strong communication skills, both written and oral
Excellent presentation design skills (PowerPoint)
Experience in business management in an operational, planning and project management (or similar) role would be beneficial and ideally within a financial organisation
Experience in drafting papers, documents and reports
Ability to identify, research and articulate key sustainability opportunities and risk
Experience in a sustainability-related role; ability to demonstrate knowledge of key sustainability concepts and topics
Ability to prioritise multiple deliverables with demonstrable organisational and time management skills
Effective collaborative skills that contribute to positive working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
Thank you for considering us!