Total 10 brand manager job vacancies in Business Management / Project / Planning category in Singapore

• Project management, to ensure delivery of key initiatives on time and budget.

• Engaging with stakeholders across business and technology to ensure alignment on key deliverables and timelines.

• Providing regular updates and following up on action items.

• Financial management, ensuing project financials are up to date and correct and captured in a timely manner.

Only candidates with prior business project management skills and prior experience with financial products will be considered.

“This is in partnership with the Employment and Employability Institute Pte Ltd (“e2i”).

e2i is the empowering network for workers and employers seeking employment and employability solutions. e2i serves as a bridge between workers and employers, connecting with workers to offer job security through job-matching, career guidance and skills upgrading services, and partnering employers to address their manpower needs through recruitment, training, and job redesign solutions. e2i is a tripartite initiative of the National Trades Union Congress set up to support nation-wide manpower and skills upgrading initiatives. By applying for this role, you consent to A-IT Software Services Pte Ltd’s PDPA and e2i PDPA.

Role: Project Manager

Job Level: More than 10 years of relevant experience (L4)

Role: Project Manager

Job Level: L4 – > 10 years

About Bank Technology & Operations:

Bank Technology and Operations (GTO) provides software and system development, information technology support services and banking operations.

We have centralized and standardized the technology components into Singapore, creating a global footprint which can be utilized for supporting our regional subsidiaries and the branches around the world.

We operate and support 19 countries with this architecture to provide a secure and flexible banking infrastructure.

Our Operations divisions provide transactional customer services for our businesses while also focusing on cost efficiency through process improvements, automation and straight through processing.

Responsibilities:

· Overall Project Management:

- Responsible and track the quality, scope, timeline, effort (co-related to estimation, CR’s, complexity), resources (includes GTO, business, contractor, Professional Services resources as well as operations),

- Develop and execute the overall project plan and analyse project proposals which impacts the schedule and budget variance which in turn contribute to meeting the overall objectives of the project.

- Identify and schedule project deliverables, milestones and required activities and tasks.

· Stakeholder Management: Work hand in hand with Business Project Managers to manage project stakeholders and relationships - e.g. escalation, expectation, conflict, scope changes, etc. Ensure teams work in a collaborative environment

· Scope Management: Manage all changes to the agreed scope of work Review and assess all changes and impact to timeline and ensure all changes are approved by PSC

· Project Governance: Prepare investment approval deck and manage approval of project by ITC/TPWC. Organize and facilitate PSC meetings, chair PWC meetings.

· Change management: Led enhancements estimates, timelines, scope and agile delivery to quarterly releases as project manager

· Risk and Issue Management: Manage 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

· Project Reporting: Measure, monitor and report progress to stakeholders at various levels of organization across the enterprise with the right quality, consistency in content. Implement project communication plan and review status reports prepared by project personnel and modify schedules or plans as required

· Client focussed: Drives decision making and delivery outcomes through client lense

Requirements:

Technical Skills & Experience

· Bachelor’s degree in IT, business, finance, or equivalent.

· At least 15 years experience in project management in banking, financial, consulting industries with proven track record.

· Good problem solver and stay on top of the project risks and issues till closure.

· Good team player and is able to exercise formal and informal ways to lead the vertical teams in achieving the common project targets.

· Excellent presentation skills and able to front with the senior stakeholders at C level.

· Passionate, diligent, and resilient individual with ability if thrive in ambiguity.

· Previous exposure to Channels & APIs including internet banking, mobile, API and H2H knowledge will be advantages.

· Good to have PMP, Prince2, Agile certification.

Education

· Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or similar domain

Related professional/technical qualification will be advantageous although not mandatory

Key Domain/ Technical Skills:

· Client onboarding experience, either in product owner, manager, or T&O equivalent roles

· External API functional and technical experience, regional API rollouts.

· Performance metrics and challenges in past projects either at banks, Fintech or eCommerce org

Project Support and Governance

• Collaborate with stakeholder departments in business, operations, technology, regulators, etc and co-ordinate execution by respective owners
• Execute projects according to plan, scope, budget & timeline
• Ensure project execution adhere to policies, procedures and criterias
• Monitor, track and control outcomes to resolve issues, conflicts, dependencies and critical path deliverables
• Understand interdependencies between business, operations and technology
• Analyze risk and propose mitigation plan

Education:

• Diploma or Bachelors’ Degree of Science in (Business Management, Computer Science, Information System)
• At least 2 years’ relevant experience preferably in a Finance Institution.

Essential:

• You will typically be assigned to work on specific projects and is expected to support the Project Delivery.
• You are expected to ensure your work are adequately documented and transferred to the production team post-cutover.

Skills Required:

• Ability to appreciate and conduct analysis on Business/Operation Processes
• Ability to hands on/ illustrate UI/UX Wire-framing, Concepts and Proposal
• Ability to drive and run workshop/ discussion forums with other stakeholders

“This is in partnership with the Employment and Employability Institute Pte Ltd (“e2i”).

e2i is the empowering network for workers and employers seeking employment and employability solutions. e2i serves as a bridge between workers and employers, connecting with workers to offer job security through job-matching, career guidance and skills upgrading services, and partnering employers to address their manpower needs through recruitment, training, and job redesign solutions. e2i is a tripartite initiative of the National Trades Union Congress set up to support nation-wide manpower and skills upgrading initiatives. By applying for this role, you consent to A-IT Software Services Pte Ltd’s PDPA and e2i PDPA.

Project Management

- Responsible and track the quality, scope, timeline, effort (co-related to estimation, CR’s, complexity), resources (includes GTO, business, contractor, Professional Services resources as well as operations),

- Develop and execute the overall project plan and analyse project proposals which impacts the schedule and budget variance which in turn contribute to meeting the overall objectives of the project.

- Identify and schedule project deliverables, milestones and required activities and tasks.

Stakeholder Management

- Work hand in hand with Business Project Managers to manage project stakeholders and relationships e.g. escalation, expectation, conflict, scope changes, etc. Ensure teams work in a collaborative environment

Scope Management

- Manage all changes to the agreed scope of work Review and assess all changes and impact to timeline and ensure all changes are approved by PSC

Project Governance

- Prepare investment approval deck and manage approval of project by Investment board. Organize and facilitate PSC meetings, chair PWC meetings.

Risk and Issue Management

- Manage 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

Project Reporting

- Measure, monitor and report progress to stakeholders at various levels of organization across the enterprise with the right quality, consistency in content. Implement project communication plan and review status reports prepared by project personnel and modify schedules or plans as required

Project Scope

- Collaborate with stakeholders to gather business requirements, ensuring they align with PDPA regulations

Requirements:

• Bachelors’ Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• At least 10 years’ relevant experience preferably in a Finance Institution.

Essential:

• Project Management certification or successful completion of a recognized project management curriculum
• Experience in banking, PDPA Singapore, Personally Identifiable Information Protection, and regulatory projects is mandatory
• Strong and proven Stakeholder Management skills, problem solving skills and can-do attitude
• Ability to quickly pick up and undertake necessary steps to fulfil internal procedures/processes in accordance with compliance and governance framework
• Ability to steer stakeholders to the common goal of project scope to ensure time, cost, and scope are well maintained

“This is in partnership with the Employment and Employability Institute Pte Ltd (“e2i”).

e2i is the empowering network for workers and employers seeking employment and employability solutions. e2i serves as a bridge between workers and employers, connecting with workers to offer job security through job-matching, career guidance and skills upgrading services, and partnering employers to address their manpower needs through recruitment, training, and job redesign solutions. e2i is a tripartite initiative of the National Trades Union Congress set up to support nation-wide manpower and skills upgrading initiatives. By applying for this role, you consent to A-IT Software Services Pte Ltd’s PDPA and e2i PDPA.

Job Description

• Project management, to ensure delivery of key initiatives on time and budget.

• Engaging with stakeholders across business and technology to ensure alignment on key deliverables and timelines.

• Providing regular updates and following up on action items at working groups across multiple workstreams in projects

• Manage project issues, form and execute actions to overcome blockers to project implementation

• Plan and execute with the project team on key aspects of the project including requirements gathering, development, testing and eventual production release

• Consolidate and provide regular (monthly) updates to the Project Steering Committee on the project status, including milestones achieved, project risks and issues for escalation and upcoming milestones (outlook)

“This is in partnership with the Employment and Employability Institute Pte Ltd (“e2i”).

e2i is the empowering network for workers and employers seeking employment and employability solutions. e2i serves as a bridge between workers and employers, connecting with workers to offer job security through job-matching, career guidance and skills upgrading services, and partnering employers to address their manpower needs through recruitment, training, and job redesign solutions. e2i is a tripartite initiative of the National Trades Union Congress set up to support nation-wide manpower and skills upgrading initiatives. By applying for this role, you consent to A-IT Software Services Pte Ltd’s PDPA and e2i PDPA.

Job Description

1. Project management, to ensure delivery of key initiatives (leveraging AI/ML models etc) on time and budget.

2. Engaging with stakeholders across Consumer Banking Operations and Technology to ensure alignment on key deliverables and timelines.

3. Providing regular updates and following up on action items.

“This is in partnership with the Employment and Employability Institute Pte Ltd (“e2i”).

e2i is the empowering network for workers and employers seeking employment and employability solutions. e2i serves as a bridge between workers and employers, connecting with workers to offer job security through job-matching, career guidance and skills upgrading services, and partnering employers to address their manpower needs through recruitment, training, and job redesign solutions. e2i is a tripartite initiative of the National Trades Union Congress set up to support nation-wide manpower and skills upgrading initiatives. By applying for this role, you consent to A-IT Software Services Pte Ltd’s PDPA and e2i PDPA.

Project & Change Request Management

• Lead end to end management of change requests, ensure timely delivery and alignment with business objectives.
• Prioritize and balance the portfolio of 100 CRs based on business impact, resource, and budget constraints.
• Assume the Project Manager and/or Lead for specific projects assignment
• Proactively identify and resolve issues, bottlenecks and conflicts that may arise during the boat size port folio management process, employing critical thinking and sound judgment
• Coordinate activities across multiple teams. Both internal and external to ensure smooth execution of initiatives and adhere to project timeline

Stakeholder Communication & Presentation

• Develop ad present project pitches and updates effectively to senior management and stakeholders.
• Clearly communicate project objectives, progress, risk and mitigation plans, adapting messing to technical and business audiences.

Risk Identification & Issue Resolution

• Proactively assess, identify and manage risks, analyze issues and implement action plans to mitigation impacts on portfolio delivery as well as keep a track of project delivery and proactively address potential issues and arrive at a mitigation/escalation at right time
• Maintain a solution-oriented approach, demonstrating strong problem solving ability under complex matrix stakeholders and various constraints.

Process Improvement

• Continuously analyse existing process, identify area for improvement, seek opportunities to streamline process, improve efficiency and enhance ways of working across the project life cycle.
• Ascertain and implement best practices with stakeholders across the organization, and continuously to initiate the better way of working to improve project racking, reporting and quality control measures. Implement solutions to enhance efficiency and productivities within portfolio management domain

Budgetary & Resource Managment

• Annual plan of 100% budget utilization linked to prioritized business value and regulatory requirements.
• Timely and high-quality reporting/management involve timely budget billing, and fund drawdown.
• Updated centralize track of overall boatsize delivery covering in Jira/confluence flow including backlog, status, resource, financial, risk, and dependency profiles.
• Control and track project budgets and utilization, at all times and ensure it stays within the regional & quarterly allocations. Initiate and propose budget reallocation within delivery and support team to ensure fully utilization by end of the year.
• Ability to track aging, performance of CR boat size, close the project issues on time
• Work closely with Technical Delivery team to manage squad resource, balancing loads and optimizing team productivity to meet the delivery goals, accommodating ad-hoc requirements, and not miss the regulatory requirements,
• Maintain accurate and up to date key documentations, including status report. Project plan. Budget drawdown/allocations and other relevant artefacts

Team Leadership and Collaboration

• Act as a liaison between business and delivery team, promoting open communication and effective coordination
• Mentor and guide Retail business partner involving digital governance and connect to relevant product owners, business lead digital to fostering a positive and productive project environment.

Frameworks, process assurance, risk management

• Work with various stakeholders (Business/Product Owner, Program / Project Managers., Technical Delivery Managers, SDM team) review and propose refinements to the Ways of Working and associated SDM deliverables, in particular optimizing Agile vs Waterfall frameworks
• Track and manage Risk Appetite statement performance, MRAs, and Audits

Requirements:

• Project Management Certification, Lean /Six Sigma (e.g. PMP, Prince2, Agile or equivaent) is preferred
• Experienced of having direct responsibility for project with budget size of $10 to $20 million.
• 8+ years of experience in retail banking , and exposure to banking, product, operations, and process.
• Excellent client-facing. Executive level communication skills with excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills with the ability to convey complex information clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience in full end-to-end project management in a lead role and/ or Background in Business analysis or experience in an agile Agile/Scrum environment and framework, e.g. sprint planning, sprint review, backlog grooming, etc.
• Proficient in excel and project management tools (e..g JIRA. Confluence, Excel advance skills). Technical domain expertise is an advantage, but at minimum is tech-savvy.
• Understanding of technology and operational processes across functions in the bank.
• Leadership qualities, including the ability to motivate and inspire cross -functional team to achieve project objectives.
• Ability to managing multiple priorities simultaneously and perform well under pressure and tight timeline
• Exceptional organizational and coordination abilities. with a keen eye for detail and a track record of delivering projects on time and within budget

“This is in partnership with the Employment and Employability Institute Pte Ltd (“e2i”).

e2i is the empowering network for workers and employers seeking employment and employability solutions. e2i serves as a bridge between workers and employers, connecting with workers to offer job security through job-matching, career guidance and skills upgrading services, and partnering employers to address their manpower needs through recruitment, training, and job redesign solutions. e2i is a tripartite initiative of the National Trades Union Congress set up to support nation-wide manpower and skills upgrading initiatives. By applying for this role, you consent to A-IT Software Services Pte Ltd’s PDPA and e2i PDPA.

Business Project Manager, Strategic Program Management, Treasury

Business Function

Treasury Department provides total solutions to serve Bank clients' hedging and investment needs with a regional emphasis.

We have a strong record in providing innovative wealth management solutions to our individual investors.

We are a leader in SGD and regional products with an excellent, customer-driven research capability and with cutting-edge risk management technology and systems.

Bank extends a broad range of capabilities in foreign exchange and derivatives, money market and securities trading, to corporations and financial institutions.

Bank trades in a comprehensive product range, including foreign exchange, as well as interest rates and derivatives

Responsibilities

• Develop, execute and closure of project plan. Revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements

• Drive project scoping and initiation document, business case and business requirements document

• Manage project team, sponsors and stakeholders across business and technology lines and functions from Front, Middle and Back Office

• Work across business and technology lines and functions to define, analyse and lead improvements to business processes and procedures in line with best practice, regulatory and legal compliance.

• Manage project resource and budget, scope, risk, schedule and progress, performance, deliverables, issues, escalations and conflicts

• Engage team and stakeholders throughout the various stages of projects (including but not limited to facilitating requirements gathering workshops, design specification, identifying target operating model, identifying and facilitating user training need, managing UAT /dress rehearsals/ parallel run/ Go-Live rollout etc)

• Produce and maintain key project documentation throughout the project lifecycle (i.e. plans, status reports, issue and risk logs)

• Produce accurate and detailed project reports and presentations to update the team’s project milestones and status to senior management on a timely basis

• Effectively apply project management methodology and enforces bank’s project standards

• Perform post-implementation review

Requirements

• University Graduate with major in Business Management, Information Systems/Technology or Finance from a recognized university

• At least 5 years of experience in managing large scale projects directly, responsible for all end-to-end matters of the project (from managing users and technology partners to senior stakeholders and external service providers), preferably in a large, global financial institution.

• Certification in project management and/or Agile (Product Owner or Scrum Master) methodologies would be advantageous

• Strong influencing and negotiation skills along with excellent interpersonal and communication skills; strong verbal, written and presentation skills to key stakeholders within the organization

• Results orientated with the ability to engage multiple initiatives simultaneously and work to deadlines

• Ability to work independently to gather requirements, prepare project plan, communicate to stakeholders

• Self-starter, with tenacity to succeed and able to work with people of all cultures across the region

• Willing to challenge the status quo to drive better outcomes

• Proficient with all standard office applications such as MS Office (Word, Powerpoint, Excel)

“This is in partnership with the Employment and Employability Institute Pte Ltd (“e2i”).

e2i is the empowering network for workers and employers seeking employment and employability solutions. e2i serves as a bridge between workers and employers, connecting with workers to offer job security through job-matching, career guidance and skills upgrading services, and partnering employers to address their manpower needs through recruitment, training, and job redesign solutions. e2i is a tripartite initiative of the National Trades Union Congress set up to support nation-wide manpower and skills upgrading initiatives. By applying for this role, you consent to A-IT Software Services Pte Ltd’s PDPA and e2i PDPA.

Role: Project Manager

Job Level: 3-5 years of relevant experience (L2)

Role:

Project Manager

Job Level: L2 – 3 to 5 years

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for supporting the Infrastructure Build team to put together the plan and monitoring each of the activities into completion.

• Responsible for coordinating with infra delivery resources required to complete the infrastructure build, and implementation, working with the infrastructure architects, the engineering team and the build team.

• Highlight and propose a revised plan if there is a conflicting resource, timeline or unrealistic expectation of infrastructure delivery/build time.

• Monitor and analyse the implementation of each infrastructure project. Recommend re-prioritisation based on the sensitivity, urgency, priority, and type of projects (e.g. compliance/regulatory) and the approval requirement.

• Consolidate the plan against the actual end-to-end cost required to deliver infrastructure projects. Recommend optimization of cost by consolidating similar infrastructure components and timelines.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree and a minimum One to three of experience in project management role, preferably in a fast-face, multi-teams and multiple concurrent projects.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to negotiate and resolve conflict.

• Attention to detail with creative thinking.

• Ability to work under pressures and with tight timelines who brings excellent time management skills.

• Familiar with Jira and Confluence

Key Domain/ Technical Skills:

• Confluence, Jira

• PowerPoint Presentation

• Excel

“This is in partnership with the Employment and Employability Institute Pte Ltd (“e2i”).

e2i is the empowering network for workers and employers seeking employment and employability solutions. e2i serves as a bridge between workers and employers, connecting with workers to offer job security through job-matching, career guidance and skills upgrading services, and partnering employers to address their manpower needs through recruitment, training, and job redesign solutions. e2i is a tripartite initiative of the National Trades Union Congress set up to support nation-wide manpower and skills upgrading initiatives. By applying for this role, you consent to A-IT Software Services Pte Ltd’s PDPA and e2i PDPA.

Only candidates with prior business project management skills and prior experience with financial products will be considered.

Job description

• Project management, to ensure delivery of key initiatives on time and budget.

• Engaging with stakeholders across business and technology to ensure alignment on key

deliverables and timelines.

• Providing regular updates and following up on action items.

• Financial management, ensuing project financials are up to date and correct and captured in a timely manner.

“This is in partnership with the Employment and Employability Institute Pte Ltd (“e2i”).

e2i is the empowering network for workers and employers seeking employment and employability solutions. e2i serves as a bridge between workers and employers, connecting with workers to offer job security through job-matching, career guidance and skills upgrading services, and partnering employers to address their manpower needs through recruitment, training, and job redesign solutions. e2i is a tripartite initiative of the National Trades Union Congress set up to support nation-wide manpower and skills upgrading initiatives. By applying for this role, you consent to A-IT Software Services Pte Ltd’s PDPA and e2i PDPA.