Total 7 corporate counsel job vacancies in Business Management / Project / Planning category in Tanglin Road, Central Singapore

At Duke Corporate Education, we empower leaders at all levels to be catalysts of change in their organizations and, ultimately, in society. By designing and delivering best in class advisory, leadership development and change management programs, we accelerate business leaders and their teams to build for the future. Our global team have an enviable track record of delivering some of the most scaled, impactful and innovative learning programs and leadership interventions in the world. With delivery in over 85 countries, we partner with clients to co-create the right solution for any level of leadership. Together, we transform leaders and business, creating sustainable impact at scale and speed.  

We are seeking a motivated Project Director to join our team in Singapore, to play a key role in developing and driving leadership development solutions for our clients. Our entrepreneurial environment will offer you significant opportunities for personal and professional development, and the freedom to excel. 

This role is office based and requires regular travel to client sites.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities include:

• Translate client needs into impactful learning solutions.
• Produce and manage actionable project plans and drive progress towards deliverables.
• Manage project budget, contract, and timelines to ensure successful project completion.
• Build strong relationships with clients at senior levels, including multinational FTSE 500 organizations.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure project progress and quality standards are met.
• Lead project teams, providing feedback, guidance, and support to ensure project milestones and goals are met.
• Prepare and deliver status updates and presentations to clients and internal teams.
• Identify, track, and communicate project risks and issues to drive resolution.
• Compile and analyze data to evaluate project performance.

• Experience in learning & development program design (preferably for Leadership Development) or consulting in a people related field

• Minimum 4 years of experience in project management. PM qualification preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in business or related field required.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders.
• Resilient and adaptable, comfortable working in a changing environment.
• Ability to lead, motivate, and influence project team members to drive success.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Experience with project management software and tools required.
• Must be able to travel regularly.

Duke CE is an equal opportunities employer and invites all applicants who meet the requirements to apply.

Job Summary:

The Business Development Manager (BDM) for Corporate Services will be responsible for driving growth by identifying new business opportunities, establishing and expanding relationships with key clients, and building a strong network of leads. This role involves identifying market trends, understanding client needs, and developing tailored solutions to meet corporate service demands. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter with excellent networking abilities, capable of independently sourcing and nurturing leads while contributing to the overall strategic goals of the business.

Job Responsibilities:

• Handle walk-in, phone or email inquiries promptly and professionally
• Identify and generate new leads through personal networks, referrals, industry events and digital platforms
• Build and maintain strong relationships with existing clients while identifying opportunities for upselling and cross-selling services
• Follow up on inquiries, quotations, and proposals to close deals effectively
• Serve as the main point of contact for key clients, providing ongoing support and ensuring satisfaction
• Meet or exceed sales targets and KPIs by driving new business and expanding existing accounts
• Work closely with internal teams (service delivery, operations and finance) to ensure smooth client onboarding and service delivery
• Assist in marketing, partnership, and collaboration activities in order to generate new leads

Skills & Qualifications:

• Proven experience in business development, sales or corporate services
• Strong ability to network, build relationships, and generate leads independently
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills
• Knowledge of corporate services industry trends and market dynamics
• Able to work independently, prioritize tasks and meet deadlines
• A proactive, goal-oriented and result-driven attitude

Mandatories are:

• Experience in Business Analysis. 8-10 years
• Experience in Digital Channels and in transaction banking. 5 years+
• Understanding of Technology but no need to have coding experience
• Capturing, analyzing and eliciting business Requirements: Elaborating JIRA stories
• Agile product development experience

Nice to haves are:

• Detailed Knowledge in how Payments work in Singapore vs Malaysia vs Hong Kong (regulatory too)
• Knowledge of Technology trends e.g. how does a digital bank approach digital channel?
• API /SWIFT experience

Personal Qualities:

• Articulate well. Clarity in analyzing and writing business requirements
• Not an order taker, able to push back complex build needs and offer alternate solutions

• A great team player. Collaborate and communicate well with the other BAs
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong presentation and meeting skills
• Proactive and has initiative to thrive in a fast-paced environment to deliver and meet deadlines
• Highly resourceful and self-motivated

• To act as the key, day to day client interface, ensuring that client objectives are met and that projects are delivered to time and cost targets and the appropriate quality standard.
• Delivering the overall project management in ensuring the quality, cost, statutory, safety and environment issues and project scheduling requirements are met.
• Lead project team and manage multiple projects by following defined project process and systems.
• Responsible for the co-ordination and management of construction projects including progress, logistics, quality, cost and client relations.
• nt of quality, safety, health and environment issues.
• Project planning, including ensuring the production of the detailed project plan.
• To provide effective and efficient site administration, meetings and reporting.
• To plan and organize various statutory inspections.
• To act as client representative, managing the daily running of the project.
• To facilitate progress meetings and produce project reports.
• To update the master programme
• To manage the flow of project information between the team and the client, through regular meetings and written communications.
• To manage other consultants and the professional team.
• To assist with the procurement and appointment of other consultants as needed.

Business Requirements Gathering:

• Work closely with stakeholders (credit risk, loan servicing, operations, IT teams, etc.) to gather and document business requirements for the NPA monitoring application.
• Analyze current systems and processes to identify gaps, inefficiencies, and areas of improvement in NPA monitoring.
• Translate business requirements into functional specifications and user stories for development teams.

Project Support:

• Collaborate with the project manager and technical teams to ensure timely and accurate delivery of the NPA application.
• Support end-to-end project lifecycle, from requirements analysis and design through testing and deployment.
• Assist in defining test scenarios and user acceptance criteria for the NPA application.

Stakeholder Management:

• Act as a liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring clear communication and alignment on project goals and deliverables.
• Provide regular updates to management and stakeholders on project progress, risks, and issues.

Data Analysis & Reporting:

• Analyze historical credit data, delinquency trends, and loan performance metrics to support the development of the NPA monitoring application.
• Work with business and IT teams to design reporting capabilities that offer insights into credit risk, asset quality, and NPA forecasts.

Systems Design & Integration:

• Collaborate with IT and development teams to design system enhancements and integrations with existing banking applications, including loan management systems, credit risk platforms, and financial reporting tools.
• Ensure the solution aligns with the bank’s broader technology architecture and data governance policies.

Testing & Quality Assurance:

• Lead or support testing efforts (UAT, integration testing) for the NPA monitoring application to ensure it meets business requirements and quality standards.
• Validate data accuracy, system functionality, and compliance with regulatory requirements.

Training & Documentation:

• Develop user manuals and training materials to support end users of the NPA monitoring application.
• Conduct training sessions for internal teams, ensuring they understand the features and functionalities of the new application.

• 5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst in the banking or financial services industry, with a focus on the Corporate Credit domain.
• Proven experience supporting technology projects related to credit risk management, NPA monitoring, loan servicing, or similar banking applications.
• In-depth understanding of the Corporate Credit lifecycle, including loan origination, monitoring, classification, provisioning, and recovery processes.

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Our commitment towards quality and innovation excellence has won us many accolades, including Winner of Best Practice Award in 2018 and Innovation Award in 2016 during the Singapore Accountancy Awards. We are also the only accounting firm to be accredited as People Developer by Enterprise Singapore for our relentless drive towards Business Excellence in People Development.

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Responsibilities & Scopes:

• Assisting the Business Development Senior on new client leads and answer queries to new and existing clients.
• Actively engage the clients for cross-selling of the Group’s services in 8 markets of Asia Pacific
• Responsible for effective management of new leads, new client onboarding, conducting customer due diligence and KYC works for the Company
• Assist the team in developing channels of sales leads
• Assist the team on capturing new corporate partnerships through various modes such as events, networking sessions, and ongoing relationship management of existing corporate partners.
• Assist the team on data analysis and helps on detailed report for new business opportunities as and when required.

Qualifications:

• A recognized University Degree or a Diploma
• Is self-motivated and enterprising
• Have an outgoing personality and loves communicating with people
• Able to present and articulate well in both written and verbal communications
• Able to work well with colleagues across functions and jurisdictions
• Relevant past experiences in the corporate & professional, accounting, taxation, secretarial services, etc would be advantageous but not required.

Position Summary:

The Project Assistant is responsible for essential administrative and project support in planning, financial tracking, reporting, business development activity, project management, meeting management, and administrative processing. Working in tandem with the Leadership Team, the incumbent will anticipate needs and deliver on a wide range of requirements that create efficiency for leaders and projects.

This is a dynamic role with exposure to all aspects of our business, that requires an ambitious self-starter with excellent upwards management skills and with aspirations to become a program manager, or specialist in one of our support teams.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Leading an exceptional standard of proactive, organized and detail-oriented team and project administrative support, striving to evaluate and systematize our administrative support practices and create a world class standard of excellence in efficient administration on our team.
• Using or learning a full range of key systems (CRM, CoPilot, Financial Management System, Knowledge Management, HR Systems) to interrogate, collect and validate data for regular required team reporting, including Utilization Reports, Revenue Reports, Financial Reports, People and HR Reporting, Pilot Technology Reports, Project Reports and Contracting Reports.
• Automate, draft and prepare responses to routine inquires; work with team to automate correspondence and communication, develop systems of prioritization, work with leadership team to optimize team meeting management, agendas, scheduling and documentation.
• Support project teams as needed with project administration and planning including resource utilization tracking and owning project administrative tasks to be delivered on time and to budget. Supporting the project team with a variety of administrative and logistical tasks as needed, including the development and production of program materials
• Meeting management support, including working with teams to lead team efficiency and strong disciplines in team meeting tracking, preparation, agenda setting, follow up and action tracking, and ensuring these disciplines are always proactively observed and used to drive efficiency and effectiveness.
• Supporting key office priorities and strategic initiatives as they arise, including but not limited to, administrative support on marketing campaigns, technology pilots and outbound business development scheduling, travel planning, administrative processing.
• Represent the team confidently, professionally and thoroughly to ensure operational deliverables meet our needs, including interacting with internal colleagues in other regions and with clients.
• Working closely with our executive directors to anticipate and meet all administrative needs related to their roles, exercising strong upwards management to deliver a world class standard of efficient and effective executive support and gaining exposure and involvement in many aspects of our business, acting as an administrative business partner. 
• Support the preparing and shipping of project and method materials, maintaining project items and stock levels. Track and order materials needed in line with policy.
• Provide support with logistics and planning for business travel, client events and team events.
• Act as a point person for financial management of contractor work orders and invoicing.
• Perform other job-related duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Position Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required

• Administrative and Organization Management Skills

• Able to set priorities, organize and manage multiple tasks independently without prompting. Able to engage multiple team members to prompt, track, plan, gather data and get tasks completed effectively. Ability to deliver, enforce and influence higher standards of excellence where necessary.
• Anticipates needs; takes proactive approach to work; manages upwards effectively including regular communication, service orientation and logging/tracking progress to bring decisions and issues for resolution. Continuous improvement mindset which drives continual innovation in administrative efficiency.
• Strong and assertive voluntarism to solve for team needs, find new solutions, garner input and lead effective engagement to improve the team’s efficiency. Professional, supportive, positive and service-oriented demeanor at all times, with strong business acumen to aid prioritization and client/market-centricity.
• Meets deadlines; manages time effectively; accountable for all aspects of the role; sets guidelines and timelines and holds self and others accountable for delivery to achieve excellence. Strong attention to detail; focused on quality, excellence and professional business acumen.
• Data and numeracy oriented. Ability to use or learn multiple administrative, financial and client IT systems to work effectively and to support with data-driven reporting.

• Client Relationship Management

• Ability to establish professional and personal credibility with colleagues, clients, faculty and venders; owns relationships
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, confident and ability to engage multiple stakeholders to achieve the most optimal outcomes (e.g. deliverables, tasks or reporting)

• Technical Skills

• Project management capability
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Able to learn and work in various databases and systems
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships.
• Customer orientation mindset, sees self as an enabler
• Critical thinker; can think outside the box, problem solve easily and find creative solutions to challenges.
• Learning mindset with the ability to quickly acclimatize and master tools and new systems
• Agile and resilient, can cope under pressure and multitask effectively

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Degree qualified
• Minimum of 1-year administrative experience in a corporate setting
• Project management experience, ideally holding a PM qualification
• Knowledge of Office 365 or other office software systems, preferably with experience of CRM systems, financial management systems and other operational support systems.