Project manager

Project Description: We require an experienced Project Manager in Capital Markets responsible to work across our client base in Malaysia.

Responsibilities:

1. Review and manage end-to-end project implementation including project planning, risk management, quality control and implementation, vendor management, financial management, management of resources, collaboration, etc. This includes responsibility for pending activities/items after project closure that are within the project scope e.g. payments and training.
2. Oversee deadlines, assign responsibilities, and monitor progress of projects.
3. Prepare progress reports to key stakeholders on overall project updates, mitigation of risk/issues, project spending and budget, resource management, timeline and other related matters.
4. Provide advice on IT governance processes and guidelines and any IT/systems suggestions.
5. Manage business and technical problems and propose alternatives or solutions.

Cross Capabilities Management

1. Work closely with the overall project team (not limited to Business Analysts, Developers, Testers, Infra, and Delivery team) to deliver projects that are within scope, budget and on time.
2. Develop project management methods, tools, standards and project execution processes to be used across the organization for IT project implementation.

Project Planning

1. Prepare/develop project work plan, ensuring it aligns with deliverables of project team (including vendor if applicable).
2. Provide advice and plan for testing, data migration, deployment and training based on technical and business dependencies.
3. Establish project team based on the project charter and conduct kick-off meeting, PWC meeting and PSC meeting.
4. Manage, prepare, track and record all project-related documents including changes, updates, minutes, approvals and sign-off.
5. Collect metrics from Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) derived from Business Analysts and Defect Removal Effectiveness (DRE) from the reviewing of defects log under Testing for analysis and reporting.
6. Perform resource planning for support, development, projects and subject matter experts.
7. Plan, manage and coordinate all IT and project-related activities within inter-departments and vendors.
8. Define the timeline, effort and key activities for the system changes and projects.
9. Provide input and review for the integration and conversion strategies.
10. Identify involvement of third-party system(s) in UAT.
11. Capture risks and issues and maintain the risk and issue register.

Project Delivery

1. Manage and deliver projects within timeline, quality and budget.
2. Regularly update management via established reporting templates and intervals (e.g., Monthly and yearly) for support, development and projects.
3. Provide timely updates and ensure proper management of business stakeholders/sponsor.
4. Ensure project risks are fully thought through and mitigated throughout the project delivery.

Project Management

1. Analyze and manage the impacts, interfaces and inter-dependencies of different projects.
2. Manage business and technical problems and propose alternatives or solutions.
3. Adhere to all applicable procedures, company policies and any other quality or regulatory requirements.
4. Stay abreast of new technologies including new project management techniques and tools.

Project Closure

1. Prepare project closure and document review form, project performance scorecard, vendor performance scorecard and performance appraisal.
2. Upload the endorsed project closure and document review form to centralised repository.
3. Coordinate review process on deliverables and obtain sign-off (SoW (if vendor involved), BRD, FSD, Test Plan & Test cases).

Mandatory Skills Description:

• 8 or more years of Project Management experience with at least 6 years of investment banking industry experience.
• Treasury/Distribution/Market Data/Wholesale Bank relevant business experiences in systems such as Murex, FinIQ, Bloomberg, LSEG Data & Analytics (formerly Refinitiv) is required.
• Delivered medium and/or large scale projects from project inception through the entire project life cycle.

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

• Technical/Infrastructure projects related experiences will be an added advantage.

Company

Luxoft is a top quality IT service provider of high-end business solutions to clients across the globe. With deep domain expertise in finance, telecom, energy, automotive, travel and aviation industries, the Company consistently goes beyond its clients’ expectations by bringing together technology, talent, innovation, and the highest quality standards.

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