Project Management Officer | Contract | Banking
Manpower
- Singapore
- $4,500-6,500 per month
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Drive the preparation of the project scoping and initiative document.
- Collate information and present on the business case; obtain the necessary approvals to proceed with the project.
- Work with the project delivery team, delivery partners and stakeholders across business and technology lines and functions from Front, Middle and Back Office departments / teams.
- Delivery of the project scope towards the objectives set by the Project Sponsor and Project Steering Committee in accordance implementation timelines and within the approved project budget.
- Work across business and technology lines and functions to define, analyse and lead improvements to business processes and procedures in line with best practice, regulatory and legal compliance.
- Manage project implementation risk and facilitate the removal of project blockers. Where necessary, mediate and facilitate the resolution of conflicts.
- Produce and maintain key project documentation throughout the project lifecycle such as project implementation plans, status reports, risk and issue logs etc).
- Produce accurate, detailed and timely reports / presentations on project milestones and status updates, items for management decision or escalation.
- Present such reports to the Project Steering Committees and Senior Management.
- Coordinate various platform level activities
- Organise Project Governance Board (PGB) meetings, produce PGB materials
- Recording meeting minutes
- Budget for individual projects and at platform level
- Ad hoc tasks as instructed by line manager.
- Engage cross-functional delivery teams and stakeholders across business and supporting units throughout the various stages of projects, including but not limited to:
b. Design specification
c. Defining target operating models
d. Identifying and facilitating user training
e. Coordinating user acceptance testing
f. Conducting dress rehearsals
g. Managing parallel runs
h. Managing live-production rollouts
i. Following up on post-go-live stabilizationJob Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Banking/ Finance or any related discipline
- Possess at least 7 -10 years of experience in managing large-scale regional projects, preferably in a large global bank or financial institution. Held roles which were accountable for all end-to-end matters of the project.
- Familiar in managing internal application users and working with technology partners, engaging senior stakeholders and external service providers.
- Certification in project management and/or Agile (Product Owner or Scrum Master) methodologies
- Confident in presenting to senior management and a mass audience, with good articulation and excellent influencing and negotiation capabilities.
- Excellent interpersonal and verbal / writing skills.
- Solutions and results orientated with the ability to engage multiple initiatives / workstreams simultaneously.
- Self-starter, with tenacity to succeed and able to drive a cross-functional project delivery team and work with people from all cultures and organizational levels.
- Proficiency with all standard office applications such as MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel).