IT Project Manager (Group Finance)
IT Project Manager/Scrum Master holds the overall responsibility and accountability for IT project management within the Technology domain. He/she should work in partnership with finance, operations and technology to deliver projects to agreed scope, schedule, budget and quality.
- Principal Role: Prepare project feasibility studies, cost-benefit analysis and proposals and obtain required approvals from appropriate IT management and project sponsors
- Establish project plans, resources, budgets and time-frames, and assign tasks
- Identify, track and communicate project progress, milestones, deliverables changes and dependencies within the schedule, costs, issues and risks
- Manage team's performance of project tasks, provide technical advice and guidance, schedule assignments and training for development, prepare performance appraisals
- Coordinate project activities across multiple development, product management, user experience and QA teams in a matrix organization
- Secure acceptance and approval of deliverables or revisions to the project from the project sponsor and stakeholders
- Manage vendor relationship and deliverables
- Evaluate and recommend purchases of software packages, hardware and service vendors where appropriate
- Ensure work deliverables are in compliance with bank policies and regulatory requirements.
- Plan for and oversee preparation of documentation of each project phase (business requirements, functional specification, project plan, test strategy, test plan, etc), training and support in new/modified applications
Qualifications Qualifications Domain Knowledge:
- Experience managing Finance/Regulatory Reporting projects including but not limited to regulatory reporting automation (Revised MAS 610 experience is a plus) and MIS reporting
- Understanding of technical aspects of system integration in a mixed technology environment covering source systems, datamarts and downstream applications
Qualifications/Experience
- 8+ years in project management in IT in financial institutions delivering projects exceeding S$ 1 mil preferably in a regional or group environment
- Self starting with excellent leadership and team building skills
- Ability to resolve complex problems creatively
- Ability to step into the details when needed to resolve impediments yet has full visibility of end-to-end view of project
- Ability to run multiple projects concurrently, working closely with cross-functional team members for delivery, usually under pressure of regulatory deadline
- Experience in managing senior stakeholders with prior experience in running project steercos
- Certification or formal training in project management (PMP) and/or agile methodology (CSM) is an advantage
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