Senior Program Manager

Do you want to transform complex change initiatives into concrete results? And do you get energy from an environment where business, compliance, risk, operations, and IT converge?

As Senior Project Manager Financial Crime & Regulatory Change, you will work on strategic change initiatives within Detecting Financial Crime (DFC). Many of these initiatives have a strong regulatory component and affect multiple parts of the organization.

You bring structure to that complexity. You translate strategic objectives into actionable plans, organize decision-making, and ensure that teams and stakeholders know what is expected of them and when. In doing so, you maintain an overview of progress, risks, dependencies, and bottlenecks, and help projects move from planning to actual implementation.

In this role, you translate complex ambitions into workable delivery plans. You coordinate between business, compliance, risk, operations, and IT, ensuring that stakeholders are aligned, decisions are well-prepared, and progress remains visible. You create clarity in complexity, help remove bottlenecks, and support teams in the step from planning to implementation.
Your responsibilities

• Leading and coordinating DFC-wide projects and programs from initiation through to implementation.
• Translating objectives into clear plans, milestones, deliverables, and decision points.
• Setting up and managing project governance, planning, reporting, and decision-making rhythms.
• Aligning with stakeholders within DFC, Compliance, Risk, IT, Operations, and Business.
• Managing dependencies, risks, issues, actions, and bottlenecks across teams.
• Preparing clear management updates, progress reports, risk analyses, and recommendations.
• Facilitating workshops and working sessions to define actions, deliverables, and decisions.
• Monitoring progress and supporting the implementation and safeguarding of change.

You will join the Strategic Programme Management team within FEC BPM & Automation, Offshoring & Analytics.

From this team, you will work on change initiatives relevant to the approach to financial crime. This means working in an environment with heavy regulation, diverse interests, and many interdependencies. Good collaboration and simultaneously maintaining control over delivery are essential in this.

You will work hybridly from Amsterdam Centerpoint or Amersfoort. There is a lot of flexibility in arranging your work week, whereby we expect you to work in the office an average of two days per week.

You are an experienced project professional who maintains an overview when the environment becomes complex. You are structured and result-oriented, but simultaneously understand that successful change is not just about planning and reporting. You know how to engage people, bring interests together, and drive decision-making forward.

You feel comfortable managing multiple workstreams at once and know how to reduce strategic ambitions to an approach that teams can actually get to work with.

You combine structure with organizational sensitivity. You take ownership, communicate clearly, and dare to ask follow-up questions when agreements, responsibilities, or decisions are insufficiently clear.

At the same time, you are focused on collaboration. You understand different interests and know how to bring stakeholders together in a constructive manner. Your most important goal: ensuring that a complex initiative does not get stuck in planning, but is actually executed.

Skills and experience

• HBO or WO level of professional and intellectual ability.
• 3-5 years of relevant experience as a project lead or program manager, or in change management, process management, consultancy, or a similar role.
• Experience with project or program governance, preparation of steering committees, risk and issue management, and dependency management as a project lead or program manager.
• The ability to facilitate workshops and translate complex objectives into concrete actions, deliverables, and decisions.
• Knowledge of and experience with KYC/AML processes, FEC, DFC, or a regulated operational environment
• Fluent in Dutch, with a good command of English.

It is important to us to be a good employer. We therefore offer you a position with impact and excellent employment conditions that contribute to your job satisfaction, development, and wellbeing.

In addition, we offer:

• An attractive gross monthly salary based on a 36-hour work week. This includes holiday allowance and a flexible benefit budget.
• An excellent pension scheme, so that you are well prepared for the future.
• Flexibility in working: working from home is possible in consultation with your team and depending on your role. We will arrange an ergonomic home working environment for you.
• Room for relaxation with five weeks of vacation per year, supplemented by two mandatory days off. Additionally, you can purchase up to four extra weeks of vacation annually.
• Five 'Banking for better days': extra days off that you can use for personal development or volunteer work.
• Personal development is central: you receive a development budget of €1,000 per year, which you can save up to €3,000.
• A public transport annual pass with free public transport throughout the Netherlands for both business and private use.

More information about our employment conditions and salary scales can be found in our cao that applies to this vacancy.

Interested or want to know more? Please contact Edwin Barlage via edwin.barlage@nl.abnamro.com

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