Ibiyemi Babatunde

PMO Manager overseeing the strategic migration of applications from NWG data centres to the public cloud, aligning with the Bank’s approved hosting strategy. Reported directly to the Programme Manager, managed six project managers across seven workstreams, and supervised three direct reports. Collaborated closely with Accenture and AWS in the programme's development and management. Provided strategic leadership to the PMO function, ensuring rigorous compliance with established governance frameworks and processes across the programme. Maintained a standardised methodology and best practice approach to programme management and documentation.

As the Governance and Control Manager for the Road User Charging (RUC) Detroit programme, I reported directly to the RUC Detroit Programme Manager. I collaborated with six project managers across nine projects with five direct reports. My role involved effective engagement with the RUC Detroit programme team and the broader Technology & Data (T&D) resources to support governance and reporting for the programme’s delivery. Taking ownership of project control and governance capabilities, providing key project control outputs to stakeholders and sponsors, including Investment Delivery Planning and Capital Delivery. I worked with both senior and junior stakeholders across various technology projects, contributing to the overall RUC programme. Additionally, I closely collaborated with commercial and procurement teams to facilitate successful procurement processes, enhancing the scale and capacity of the T&D technical delivery teams while managing budget and financial expenditures. I engaged with development areas focused on complex backend development, service management, business/change transitions, and broader delivery aspects of the programme and projects, including interactions with third parties when necessary

PMO Lead in the Chief Remediation Office (CRemO) to oversee the end-to-end remediation of all owned internal and external audit findings as well as obligations assigned by regulatory authorities and monitors. The function serves as the central audit coordination and validation across Anti Financial Crime (AFC) for the annual statutory audit by E&Y to ensure consistency and timely interaction with the external auditor. Role involves close collaboration with relevant Senior stakeholders and SMEs within AFC and beyond as required, who are contributing the expert knowledge into the regulatory interaction. Regular tracking of finding resolution and providing regular reporting to Senior management. Liaising with programme remediation teams to understand the programme status. Conducting regular analysis across findings to identify risk patterns

Senior programme office lead supporting the Chief Technology Office (CTO), which supports the management of the CTO business and the delivery of CTO projects and programmes. Working across 3 major portfolios Corporate Services, Vision 27 (Transformation) and Service Sustainability Programme (SSP) within multiple service lines and functions (End Users, Enterprise Services, Telecommunications and Data Centre Operations). Working with over 150 PMs across 300 projects to ensure a consistent approach to key project processes (risks, issues and dependency management, change management, plan management) and status reporting across all CTO for its projects and portfolios. Performing a governance function across project and programme to ensure the adherence of CTO Programmes to the HSBC Change Framework (HCF), a key regulatory requirement.

Programme Office Manager for Business Support Operations within Route Services IT, reporting directly to the Route Service IT Portfolio Managers within the Central Services, Transformation and Strategic Change Management portfolios. Working closely with over 20 project managers and 5 programme managers across 70 projects. Projects within the portfolios vary from IT to Business change projects. Assisting and support project and programme managers in the development and delivery of projects to ensure delivery on time, to budget and to agreed scope. Ensuring the delivery of all project related activities within required external regulatory compliance and internal NR frameworks, standards, policies and processes. Working in conjunction with the Governance and Assurance manager to ensure the IT delivery lifecycle framework is reviewed, updated and shared across the RSIT team. Working closely with other PMO managers to review current process and create best practices and guidance. Implementing the delivery cycle and processes across the portfolios to effectively identify assess and prioritise risks. Reviewing the programme office strategic view and resource profile and management

Programme Office Manager for the Wholesale Global Operations Technology (Ops IT) reporting directly to the Programme Director and Wholesale Global Ops IT CIO. The Wholesale Ops IT focuses on e2e Customer Journeys across Account Services, Trade and Credit through process re-engineering, automation, streamlining and continuous improvement. Working closely with the process excellence transformation, to understand the Book of Work (BoW) within the portfolio and planning of the projects to delivery. Working close with the Operations and Shared Services (OSS) COO team from a Business manager prospective to manage and review the portfolio manpower plan (mpp), resource forecasting and finance management. Supporting various regions (EMEA, US and APAC) to ensure delivery of projects and programmes within the portfolio in line with the standardised governance and methodology

Programme Office lead for Reporting Platform Market Risk team; reporting directly to the Programme manager on various projects within the Market Risk Business (Market Risk Dashboard for BCBS239 compliance, MLRM BoW, LECH, Asia Transformation). Working with various regions (Asia, EMEA, US) to ensure delivery of projects in line with the standardised governance and methodology.

Programme Office manager for the BCBS 239 programme, the programme was set up to deliver the prescribed set of principles for data aggregation and reporting defined by the Basel Committee. The principles relate to all parts of the institution where governance, data, processes and models feed into management reports that support decisions related to the risk profile of the bank. This programme spans across various business functions (IB, PCB, Barclaycard, NTMR, Finance, and Ops Risk) and regions (EMEA, US, Africa).

Programme office manager for the International Banking (IB) delivery team within Infrastructure projects (IP). Reporting directly to the Leadership team delivery manager and supporting 2 programme managers; working with teams in the UK, India and the Netherlands to deliver programmes including Amstelveen Datacentre Exist (ADCE), Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), SHIP with Worldpay and other IB BAU programmes

Programme office manager for the Tesco Banking programme. The programme involved Fiserv working in conjunction with Tesco Bank to provide various financial service technologies to Tesco Bank to enable Tesco Bank to provide a more innovative and integrated banking system. Fiserv developed and implemented IT solutions and provided IT support to Tesco Bank in areas such as launching of Savings, Credit Card, Cash ISA, Mortgage and Current Account products on the Tesco Bank platform, migration of data from RBS platform and ensured Tesco systems are compliant with the financial AML, fraud and regulatory requirements. The programme interfaced with other Fiserv colleagues in Poland, India and USA as well as Fiserv partners and third-party companies within the UK and Europe

Programme Office Lead for the Corporate Banking integration programme. The integration programme is defined into 5 different transitions states. Transition state 1 involves the integration of business unit transfers within Corporate Banking. Ensuring the success of the macro and micro segmentation of HBOS Commercial, Specialist Finance, BoS Treasury and Strategic Relationship Group into Lloyds TSB Corporate Banking which comprises of Major Corporates, Large Corporate, Financial Institution, Entrepreneurs, and SIF. Liaising with Heads of Relationship Managers and Front Office support to understand and manage the appropriate portfolios for each business units. Working with the business design units to understand and communicated the Target Operating Model (TOM).