About the role

The program is supporting a financial services divestment, where data and systems must be separated cleanly between the divesting and acquiring parties. The work spans structured and unstructured data (documents, file shares, email and other content stores) and runs in a highly regulated banking environment.
The Program Manager will hold the integrated plan and schedule together across workstreams through to completion in Q1-Q2 2027.

Key responsibilities

Program management

- Lead end-to-end delivery of major project across multiple workstreams.
- Manage scope, budget, risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies (RAID)
- Run program governance: steering committees, working groups and status reporting to employer and bank stakeholders
- Coordinate technical teams, business analysts, data specialists and third parties
- Manage change control and keep delivery aligned to divestment and regulatory obligations
- Plan and manage cutover, transition and post-separation activities

Scheduling

- Build and own the integrated master schedule, including milestones, critical path and interdependencies
- Maintain the schedule weekly, track progress against baseline and forecast variances early
- Run schedule scenario and impact analysis for change requests and delays
- Produce schedule dashboards and milestone reporting for executives
- Align workstream plans with the bank's and acquirer's separation timelines

Essential skills and experience

- 8+ years in IT project or program management, including multi-workstream programs
- Hands-on scheduling expertise:



building and maintaining integrated schedules in MS Project (or Primavera / Smartsheet), with critical path and baseline management
- Delivery experience in banking or financial services, ideally a big four bank
- Data migration, separation or segregation program experience
- Solid governance, RAID, financial tracking and executive reporting skills
- Confident managing senior stakeholders across a client, vendor and third parties
- Experience across Waterfall, Agile and Hybrid delivery

Highly regarded

Divestment experience: delivered a divestment, demerger or carve-out, including transitional service arrangements (TSAs), separation planning and Day 1 / cut over readiness

Unstructured data experience: programs covering discovery, classification, remediation and separation of documents, file shares, email or content management systems

Familiarity with data discovery and classification tools (e.g. Microsoft Purview, Varonis, or similar)

Understanding of APRA prudential standards (CPS 234, CPS 230) and privacy obligations

PMP, PRINCE2, MSP or Agile certification

Tertiary qualification in IT, business or related field

Personal attributes

- Detail-driven planner who keeps the schedule accurate and current
- Calm and decisive under fixed regulatory and divestment deadlines
- Clear communicator who can translate schedule impacts for executives
- Hands-on and able to start quickly in a program already in flight
- Collaborative across client, vendor and acquirer teams
- Discreet with confidential and commercially sensitive information

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