IT Project Manager

alrajhi bank Malaysia; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

alrajhi bank Malaysia is seeking an IT Project Manager to plan, execute and finalize IT projects in Kuala Lumpur. You will coordinate resources, stakeholders, and vendors to deliver projects on time and within budget.

Responsibilities include defining objectives, managing risks, ensuring regulatory alignment with banking standards, and reporting status to governance bodies. You will lead cross‑functional teams across departments and external partners to drive successful delivery.

Qualifications

• Plan, execute and finalize IT projects on time and within budget.
• Define objectives and oversee quality control throughout the life cycle.
• Gather and report project status to management and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple IT projects through full life cycle from planning to execution.
• Plan timelines, scope, finances and change management.
• Define and govern IT project life cycle, waterfall/Agile.
• Identify issues and risks; manage IT risk and audit items.
• Ensure projects are aligned to business goals and well documented.
• Collaborate with internal and external partners/vendors on regulatory impacts.
• Drive cross-functional teams to design and implement solutions.
• Write system requirement specifications with use cases and data models.
• Vendor management across projects.
• Produce reports for management committees.

Skills

Project management

Multi-project handling

Stakeholder coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Job description

The role of the IT Project Manager is to plan, execute and finalize IT-related projects according to strict deadlines and within budget. This includes acquiring resources and coordinating the effort and expectations of stakeholders, project team, third party contractors, supplier and/or consultants to ensure successful project delivery.

The role will also define the project objective and oversee quality control throughout its life cycle.

What will you do:

• Manage several projects through the full project life cycle from the strategic project planning, execution and on to tactical activities.
• Project planning, timeline tracking, Scope management, financial planning, tracking and change management.
• Define and govern IT project life cycle, waterfall / Agile
• Identify project issues and risks.
• Ensure IT risk and audit items are managed and completed in a timely manner.
• Ensure projects are well defined, aligned to business goals, well documented, and appropriately reported
• Ensure all risks and issues are understood, raised, prioritized, and escalated (if appropriate) with sufficient time to enable resolution &/or independent decisions to be made End to End Project management and delivering project success.
• Working with all internal and external partners/vendors to interpret and understand impacts of the evolving regulatory landscape.
• Working with other business leaders and subject matter experts to analyze business impact, identify how this changing regulatory landscape will affect the project and define options to achieve compliance.
• Set-up and drive cross functional project team to design and implement solutions.
• Ability to extract information, at all levels of the organization (individual contributor to senior management), to identify core problems/needs.
• Ability to write system requirement specifications to include use cases, data models, assumptions, and mock-ups, when necessary.
• Vendor management across whole project/cross project.
• Complete and provide necessary reports as required for different committees / needs of management.
• Manage Project staff/ resources (if any)

Skills, certifications and experience you possess:

• Bachelor's degree in any related field.
• Ability to manage multiple projects at a time.
• Good knowledge in Banking, Data / System Migration and BNM regulations.