Project Manager - regulatory change delivery lead - SWIFT
Role summary
We are looking for an experienced Regulatory Change Delivery Lead to establish and drive a practical delivery model for regulatory change initiatives. The role requires someone who can translate regulatory and legal interpretation into structured delivery plans, mobilise impacted teams, and ensure regulatory obligations are effectively tracked through implementation.
This is not a pure PMO role. The successful candidate will create delivery structure from ambiguity, define governance and controls, coordinate multiple stakeholders, and maintain alignment between regulatory requirements and business execution.
Key responsibilities
- Develop and implement a practical regulatory change delivery framework covering scope, workstreams, governance, stage gates, roles, reporting, and delivery controls.
- Translate interpreted regulatory requirements into clear delivery scope, impacted areas, implementation actions, and delivery approaches.
- Mobilise regulatory change initiatives by establishing delivery plans, ownership, governance cadence, and ways of working.
- Coordinate delivery across Legal, Regulatory Affairs, Compliance, Risk, Technology, and First Line of Defence teams.
- Maintain regulatory traceability between obligations, requirements, actions, controls, and evidence.
- Manage delivery tracking including risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, actions, and milestones (RAID).
- Provide clear and concise reporting to senior stakeholders and governance forums.
Required experience
- 6+ years' experience in regulatory change, compliance transformation, or cross-functional change delivery.
- Proven ability to translate regulatory or legal requirements into practical delivery plans and implementation activities.
- Experience coordinating complex cross-functional change initiatives across multiple business areas.
- Strong understanding of governance frameworks, RACI, RAID management, controls, evidence management, and assurance requirements.
- Experience within regulated financial services, payments, market infrastructure, or similar environments is preferred.
Key skills & capabilities
- Ability to create structure from ambiguity and establish practical delivery models.
- Strong delivery management skills including planning, dependency management, issue resolution, and execution tracking.
- Ability to design lightweight, reusable regulatory change frameworks.
- Ability to balance regulatory defensibility with pragmatic delivery outcomes.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence without direct authority.
- Excellent communication and senior stakeholder reporting skills.
- Comfortable working across Compliance, Legal, Risk, Technology, and business functions.
Role boundaries
- Accountable for:
- Creating and operating the delivery structure for regulatory change programmes.
- Mobilising impacted teams and coordinating implementation and delivery activities.
- Maintaining traceability between regulatory obligations and implementation actions.
- Establishing governance, reporting, and delivery controls.
- Supporting effective execution of regulatory change initiatives.
- Not responsible for:
- Re-interpreting legal or regulatory requirements.
- Owning implementation activities within individual functions.
- Acting as an independent assurance provider.
- Replacing Regulatory Affairs, Compliance, Risk, PMO, or business ownership responsibilities.
- Experience level: Senior regulatory change delivery lead - 6-9 years' relevant experience (8+ years preferred)
Contract details
- Contract End Date: 31 December 2026
- Latest Application Date: 31 July 2026
