Roles & Responsibilities

• 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 timeframes, and assign tasks
• Identify, track, and communicate project progress, milestones, deliverables changes and dependencies within the schedule, costs, issues, and risks
• Manage project 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
• Facilitate team's project delivery, project planning and project execution while adhering to Agile values and practices
• Facilitate daily scrum, sprint planning (including effort estimation and resource planning), sprint demo, retrospective meetings, and backlog grooming
• Supports the organizational transformation, share best practices and tools that are successful.

REQUIREMENTS:

Domain Knowledge:

• Knowledge in Portfolio Management and Advisory functions in the wealth/premier banking domain is essential
• Understanding of technical aspects of system integration in a mix technology environment
• Comprehensive knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, XP, etc.
• Working knowledge in Agile toolsets such as JIRA, Confluence and complementing practices such as DevOps, TDD

Qualifications/Experience:

• Tertiary education required
• More than 10 years in project management in IT in investment bank delivering projects exceeding S$5 mil
• 3-5 years of Scrum Master, or agile-practicing Project Manager experience in Information Technology in a project-based environment, preferably in financial institution / banking industry
• Certification or formal training in project management is an advantage
• Experience on Aladdin (BlackRock) is preferable.
• Experience in agile project delivery is an advantage
• Self-starter with excellent leadership and team building skills
• Ability to resolve complex problems creatively
• Experience in managing senior stakeholders
• Strong organizational, communication and conflict resolution skills
• Agile / Scrum Master certification is a plus

Please contact Devin at DevinE@charterhouse.com.sg for a confidential discussion

EA License no: 16S8066 | Reg no.: R1980261

Only successful candidates will be notified.