Business Project Associate, Executive Office

CLSA; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

CLSA in Hong Kong is seeking an experienced Project Manager to articulate scope and deliverables, build a capable team, and prepare regular reports for stakeholders. The role focuses on planning multi‑phase initiatives within financial services, identifying dependencies, and managing critical paths.

You will develop and maintain project plans, mitigate risks, and escalate issues as needed, while coordinating with technical teams, business units and executives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in business, finance or management.
• ≥5 years in project management with multi-phase, multi-workstream delivery.
• Ability to tailor communication to audiences.
• Produce high-quality project artifacts for communication and decision making.
• Knowledge of project implementation is an advantage.
• Understanding of financial institutions' structure.
• Solid knowledge of PM best practices and methodologies.
• University graduate with relevant degree in field.
• Proficiency in English, Mandarin and Cantonese.
• PMO qualifications would be an asset.

Responsibilities

• Articulate project scope, objectives and deliverables.
• Set up project team with defined roles and responsibilities.
• Prepare reports to keep stakeholders informed.
• Identify dependencies and determine critical path.
• Develop and maintain project plan and risk mitigation.
• Escalate unresolved risks to the right parties.
• Facilitate consensus on key decisions during execution.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder communication

Risk management

Team leadership

Planning & scheduling

Multilingual communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Business/Finance/Management

Job description

• Articulate scope, objective and deliverable for the project
• Set up project team with clearly defined roles & responsibilities
• Prepare reports to keep project team apprised of the developments

Project planning

• Recognize, gather and document requirements from team members
• Ascertain the core dependencies and determine critical path for the project
• Make and maintain plan for the project
• Identify the key risks that will impact the timeliness, quality and cost of the deliverable
• Develop and maintain a plan to mitigate identified risks
• Escalate to the right parties in case of unresolved risks
• Facilitate consensus building on key decisions point during execution of project
• Build positive working relationship with key stakeholders

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or above in relevant field (e.g. Business, Finance, Management)
• Minimum 5 years of work experience in project management or relate costs, with track record of delivering complex projects with multiple phases and workstreams
• Ability to tailor communication to suit different audiences (e.g. technical teams, business team, executive)
• Ability to produce high quality project artifacts to assist communications and decision making throughout the project
• Knowledge in project implementation and management will be an advantage
• Good understanding of typical organizational structure in financial institutions
• Solid understanding on best practices and methodologies of project management
• University Graduate with relevant degree (e.g. Business, Finance, Management)
• Proficiency in English, Mandarin and Cantonese
• PMO or other project related qualifications would be an asset
• Detail oriented with good organizational skills
• Strong sense of personal responsibility, ownership and self-motivation
• Thriving in fast paced and stressed environment
• Mandarin Chinese written and verbal communication skills will be an advantage