Project Manager (Banking)

Job Details

• Plan and manage all project activities with product owners and stakeholders to ensure the timely completion of projects
• Leads the facilitation, coordination, and arbitration of cross functional discussion across different delivery team in the project.
• Assist and support business units and product owners to confirm requirements, prepare and review user story for system scoping
• Review and concur Functional Requirement/Business Solution Specification with product owners to ensure the solution design meet user requirement/expectation.
• Lead UAT testing to prepare end to end testing scenario, test case review, perform and monitor UAT progress with users and testers.
• Plans and manages the implementation of the change and rollout plan, to ensure the transition from current state to target state is smooth
• Proactively identify and manage projects risks and issues to ensure that risks, issues and interdependencies are effectively managed and escalated where necessary
• Engage various stakeholders from products, channels, IT, operation, risk etc and make business decision to resolve problems during project implementation
• Interface across organization levels comfortably with local and regional project teams, key stakeholders, technical support resources, and external business partners to achieve project deliverables
• Produce and communicate project status reports and maintain all necessary project documentation

Requirements:

• Minimum of 8 years of related professional experience in IT or system migration / transformation.
• Financial Services experience,
• Ability to analysis the workflow and business processes
• Ability to develop cohesive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to apply knowledge of multi-disciplinary business principles and practices to achieve successful outcomes in cross-functional projects and activities
• Ability to help collaborate, influence decision makers and drive consensus across a diverse group of customers with conflicting priorities
• Strong interpersonal, influencing, persuading and communication skills - applicable through multiple channels (written, spoken, workshops, presentations)
• Proven experience of Agile way of working (e.g. JIRA and Confluence)
• Certified in either PMP / PRINCE II / Scrum / Agile preferred, but not a must.