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Job Description: Program Governance Analyst – S/4HANA Transformation (Banking)

Role Title: Program Governance Analyst

Program: Enterprise SAP S/4HANA Transformation

Industry: Banking / Financial Services

Reporting To: Program Governance Head

Role Overview

The Program Governance Analyst will support a multi‑year SAP S/4HANA transformation program by ensuring strong governance controls, consistent reporting, and disciplined execution across business, technology, data, testing, and change workstreams. The role leverages Microsoft Project for planning, KeyedIn for RAID management, and Jira for collaboration and delivery tracking.

Key Responsibilities

1. Program Governance & Control

• Maintain program governance frameworks, templates, and operating procedures.
• Manage governance artefacts including decision logs, change control records, RACI, action logs, and stage‑gate materials.
• Ensure alignment with the bank’s internal risk, audit, and compliance requirements.
• Support program governance reviews and follow‑up action management.

2. Program Reporting, Insights & Analytics

• Consolidate inputs from all workstreams to produce accurate weekly and monthly governance reports and executive‑level packs.
• Maintain dashboards tracking milestones, progress, risks, dependencies, and schedule variance.
• Analyse the integrated plan in Microsoft Project to highlight delays, risks, and emerging trends.
• Conduct various daily and weekly update meetings to seek inputs required for governance reporting.
• Synthesize complex information into clear, concise insights for leadership.

3. Risk, Issue & Dependency Management

• Use KeyedIn to maintain the program RAID log as the single source of truth.
• Work closely with workstream leads to ensure risks, issues, and dependencies are raised, assessed, prioritized, and actively managed.
• Monitor cross‑workstream dependencies and escalate any that threaten the critical path.

4. Program Planning & Change Control

• Support maintenance of the integrated program plan using Microsoft Project, incorporating updates from all delivery partners.
• Track milestones, critical path items, and schedule variance.
• Manage the change control process, including impact assessment and governance approvals.
• Ensure adherence to architectural checkpoints, design authority requirements, and SDLC controls.

5. Collaboration, Communication & Stakeholder Engagement

• Use Jira to support collaboration, workflow transparency, and progress tracking across workstreams.
• Prepare high‑quality materials for Steering Committees, governance forums, and management meetings.
• Coordinate governance meetings, circulate minutes, track actions, and ensure timely closure.
• Build strong working relationships with senior leaders, business SMEs, technology teams, and external partners.

Required Skills & Experience

Technical Skills

• 5–10 years’ experience in program governance, planning, or PMO within large transformation programs.
• Experience with large SAP S/4HANA or ERP programs.
• Proficiency in: 
  • Microsoft Project (planning)
  • KeyedIn (RAID management)
  • Jira (collaboration, agile workflows)
• Strong analytical, data handling, Excel, and PowerPoint skills; Power BI is an advantage.
• Banking or financial services experience preferred.

Core Competencies

• Highly structured, organised, and detail‑oriented.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to convert complex inputs into clear insights.
• Proactive, solution‑focused, and comfortable working in a multi‑vendor environment.

Education & Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Technology, Finance, or related field.
• PMP, PRINCE2, SAFe, or other project/program management certifications preferred.
• SAP or ERP‑related certifications beneficial.