Software and Application Manager
11 months ago
The Opportunity
Adecco is partnering with one of the most well-established and respected financial institution with a strong track record of succes..
The Opportunity
- Adecco is partnering with one of the most well-established and respected financial institution with a strong track record of success.
- They have a culture of innovation and continuous improvement, constantly looking for ways to improve their services and offerings.
Job Responsibilities
As Project Manager:
- Build and lead teams that can include junior project managers and many team members comprising of BAs, developers, testing team and automation engineers
- Determine and define project scope and objectives
- Predict resources needed to reach objectives and manage resources in an effective and efficient manner
- Prepare budget based on scope of work and resource requirements
- Track project costs in order to meet budget
- Develop and manage a detailed project schedule and work plan
- Provide project updates on a consistent basis to various stakeholders about strategy, adjustments, and progress
- Manage contracts with vendors and suppliers by assigning tasks and communicating expected deliverables
- Utilize industry best practices, techniques, and standards throughout entire project execution
- Monitor progress and make adjustments as needed
- Measure project performance to identify areas for improvement
- Drive the governance meetings with various stakeholders and manage the required artifacts
- Manage the work allocation to the team based on prioritization
As Functional Expert:
- Understanding the BRD and enable the requirement gathering by various means like brainstorming, workshops, Questionnaire and working with different stakeholders of the cash management team like Product Managers (Global as well as In Country), Client Services, Implementation, Operations and Finance.
- Do Fit-Gap Analysis of the Business Requirements and design solutions in GPP to minimize the Gaps and use GPP capabilities to address the requirements.
- Identifying the scope of the requirements, validating the requirements.
- Working with Lead Business Analyst & Technology partner i.e., Solution Architects to agree on the solution.
- Working as a liaison between Business users, operations and Developers.
- Working with different stakeholders for product collateral and training needs.
- Overall responsible for ensuring User acceptance testing for all the streams.
- Working with Integration partners and other vendors within bank.
- Identify & resolve issues and manage project risks, supporting different teams, chairing & documenting meetings.
- Working with SIT & UAT Testing Team, reviewing, testing scenarios, test cases and helping developers and testers in clearing their doubts about the requirements etc.
- Supporting the business users for User Acceptance Testing.
- Supporting Operations team / Business Users team to complete the testing.
- Managing testing at times when required and found the issues / testing not closing or moving as expected.
- Lead Defect Management related actives.
Job Qualification
The position requires a minimum of 10+ years of relevant business analyst experience with at least 4-5 years on Project Management of Payment engine or equivalent products with banking IT systems (Payment systems and Core Banking applications).
Project Management
- Proven ability to solve problems creatively
- Strong familiarity with project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices
- Oversee the acquisition and development of software systems
- Monitor the results and quality of the different software solutions and projects implemented in the organization
- Experience seeing projects through the full life cycle
- Excellent analytical and communication skills
- Strong interpersonal skills and extremely resourceful
- Working knowledge of Agile Scrum framework
- Oversee the development of solutions and provide technical expertise on the development of software and platform features
- Proven ability to complete projects according to outlined scope, budget, and timeline
- Project management certifications either of PMP, CITPM, PRINCE2 is preferred.
Functional
- Good functional knowledge on payments
- Knowledge on Finastra’s payment engine (Global PayPlus) – Good to have
- Hands on experience on payment systems and exposure to Payments Hub, Clearing and Settlement, Automated clearing house programs and channels.
- Proficient in User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Functional & System Integration testing of banking and financial applications
- Experience in following areas is a plus: Retail Banking, Wholesale & Corporate Banking, Corporate commercial Payments, International & Domestic Payments, Payment Hub/Factory, ACH, Real Time Payments, Cash & Liquidity Management, Compliance/AML, FX, Messaging (Swift and ISO) & Trade Finance
Other Professional Skills and Mindset
- Work on complex systems and a challenging international work environment
- Knowledge of all phases of IT system development and implementation life cycle
- Highly analytic and detail oriented in approach with Excellent communication and presentation skills, with experience converting highly complex information into clear, concise documentation.
- Strong analytic skills
- Capable to effectively interact with technical team
- Strives to deliver the solution in the most effective and timely manner
- Proactive with excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
- At least a Bachelor’s degree in any of these faculties:
Computer Science / Information Technology / Programming & Systems Analysis / Science (Computer Studies)
Next Step
Click “apply” or send resume to: Tamanna Bilandi [email protected]
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