Senior IT Project Manager

POSITION PURPOSE

• To oversee Payments and Cash Management delivery project and to lead project members to collaborate closely with regional and global stakeholders to ensure on-time, on-budget and good quality delivery.
• To deliver viable solutions that evolve the Bank’s Cash Management & Payment platforms to drive and support business growth and meet the objectives in the APAC region.

Key Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

• Owner to planning and developing IT Delivery Roadmap for projects and to monitor the execution from end-to-end perspective.
• Be knowledgeable and oversee projects coordination and managing projects interdependencies (resourcing, timeline and budget), supported by other fellow Project managers.
• Project plan baselining, project cards update.
• Tracking of Actuals against Budget and report any deviation.
• Cross-project resource management between Application Development teams, Offshoring IT teams, vendors.
• Support and assist the Domain Head and/or Programme Manager on budget matters.
• Identifying and address project dependencies, risks and issues monitoring and mitigation.
• Work with Project Managers, Vendor and Development teams to address defect leakages, ensure quality control and improvements.
• Provide program documentation and presentation decks for Management and Project Steerco (presentation) reporting.
• Stakeholders’ communications (ITO, Business), and manage escalations to ensure projects/program objectives are on track.
• Uphold and ensure the Project and Program deliverance adhere to Corporate Governance and processes.
• Optimising IT Project Delivery resource capacity and aligning deployment/implementation windows managed by Application Production Support team.

Contributing Responsibilities

• Vendor management and drive RFPs for new solutions if required.
• Work cordially with fellow Project Managers within Cash Management IT as well as other Domain PMs to align key departmental objectives.
• Participate and contribute to studies and methodologies adopted by the department.
• Contribute to all necessary meeting organizations and preparation.

Requirements

Technical

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, attention to detail, strong work ethics, team spirit, and exceptional customer service attitude.
• Familiarity with common cash management, payment market infrastructure, systems and products and industry standards at least in APAC.
• Experience in working with offshore on different time zones, and ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic and multi-cultural environment.
• Practice of SDLC and/or Agile Scrum.
• Technical/programming background is an advantage.

Behavioral

• Result-oriented.
• Must be meticulous, take ownership, and hold task-owners accountable to fulfill obligations in line with the program/project plans.
• Possess leadership quality to lead and drive projects, able to work independently and manage conflicts.
• Able to manage stress and pressure and achieve project team cohesion during difficult periods in delivery.