We are looking for a Program Manager with a proven track record of ensuring project delivery excellence of technology and operations projects in a financial institution.

Experience with wholesale banking domain and payments regulatory requirements would put you in good standing for the role.

The incumbent should be extremely adaptable and be able to provide leadership and solutions to both business and Technology & Operations stakeholders.  The role requires exceptional communication skills and an ability to build and maintain working relationships with team members, and key stakeholders from other departments involved. He/she will be a visible and influential people leader, able to inspire, guide and train resources.

Stakeholder Relationship Management

• Build strategic relationships and alliances with stakeholders to achieve common goals.
• Drive the organization’s technology alignment with business needs.
• Inspire stakeholders to pursue the organization’s technology vision
• Manage critical internal and external stakeholders’ changes in needs and priorities

Regulatory and Legal Advisory:

• Establish direction to guide business stakeholders on interpretation and implication of laws and regulations to facilitate decision making and engage with regulatory or legal bodies to manage issues
• Engage with regulators, external parties, board, senior management, and other key stakeholders across business segments to facilitate decision-making on regulatory compliance and/or legal issue
• Program manage all the various regulatory requirements from the various countries and managing the requirements with business to ensure prioritization, investment approvals, planned project deliveries and track for the go lives to ensure compliance for the bank. 
• Drive the analysis work to determine the impacted business/ tech/ ops, have the right conversations with the impacted segments across the bank and navigate to address impact of regulations and legislation on the organisation.
• Develop and define advisory strategies based on organisational position on laws and regulations
• Establish strategies and plans for assessment of risks and development of solutions to address risks which can be communicated to the organisation

Risk and Issue Management:

• Oversee the overall project risk, track risk aging, work through escalations, change governance and related issues. Implement the risk mitigation plans.

Process Adherence:

• Partner with relevant stakeholders in ensuring that the system development methodology is followed and the relevant artefacts are delivered on time with quality, in adherence to the development methodology/approach.

In return for this excellent career opportunity, we ask that you have the following:

• Work experience in the financial industry including experience in a control function or in wholesale banking.
• Demonstrated product knowledge in the wholesale bank products in the cash, payments and channels will be preferred.
• Strong quantitative, analytical, problem solving and process design skills that can translate analysis into actions that meet business objectives
• Understanding of technology and operational processes across functions / departments in the bank/market.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Manage divergent agendas and divergent stakeholders with win-win solution
• Manage organizational ambiguity and differing stakeholder views
• Strong understanding of business strategies and ability to translate them into concrete achievable action plans
• Ability to collaborate and drive motivation across a diverse slate team members and can deal with difficult conversations
• Owns and enhances workflows and processes, and delegated with clear accountabilities across the teams for delivery of outcomes
• Creates and environment of learning and development through each other’s success and failures. Understands and channels team members to their personal and professional growth via challenging and stretch assignments.
• Strategic forward-thinking approach to challenges with outstanding influencing, negotiating and persuasion skills
• Passionate, diligent individual with ability to thrive in ambiguity

If this speaks to you and you are ready for a new challenge, please send your Resume in MS word format to Bennie.Yeo@springasia.com

Even if you are not interested, you can still park your CV with us for other Banking IT positions or forward this Advertisement to your counterparts with the relevant Banking IT experiences I am looking for.

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