Project Management Officer (PMO) - IT

SUNLINE TECHNOLOGY (MALAYSIA) SDN BHD; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Sunline International is seeking a Project Manager Officer (PMO) to drive full-spectrum management of new core banking projects across Southeast Asia. Responsibilities include planning, scope control, risk and cost management, and cross-border collaboration with headquarters in Shenzhen.

The ideal candidate has 2–3 years of fintech/banking PMO experience, proficiency in Jira and Excel, and is fluent in Chinese or other regional languages. Willingness to travel within SEA is required.

Qualifications

• 2–3 years of full-time fintech/banking core system PMO experience.
• Experience in large-scale SE Asia projects preferred.
• Proficient in six core PMO modules: planning, scope, change, risk, cost, manpower.
• Familiar with waterfall + agile hybrid project management.
• Experience with client-side connections and cross-border collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Project plan management: Prepare overall project plans, milestones, and weekly/monthly progress reports.
• Scope & Change Management: Control project boundaries, manage change approvals, and ledger tracking.
• Risk & Problem Management: Build risk ledgers, address defects, develop risk responses.
• Cost & Human Resource Management: Manage budgeting, on-site costs, and resource scheduling.
• Comprehensive administration & local management: Office administration, logistics, and document archiving.
• Process implementation: Standard PMO processes and templates for reuse.

Skills

Project management

Cross-cultural communication

Coordination skills

Stress resistance

Education

IT or Business Management degree

Tools

Jira

Excel advanced functions

Project reporting tools

Job description

SUNLINETechnology is an industry leader in the provision of Banking IT Solutions and is committed to becoming the most trusted partner of its customers in their quest for business innovation and transformation. We seek a highly skilled Project Manager to drive and manage a key core banking project for our clients in the SEA region.

We offer a full portfolio of innovative Banking IT Solutions, spanning across Core Banking, Digital Banking, Foreign Exchangeand Treasury, and Big Data, as well as end-to-end technical services. We’re passionate about developing the innovative solutions to meet the challenges of the digital economy and we believe that technology has the power to transform the banking and financial industry.

Purpose of the Role

As a Project Manager Officer (PMO), you will be responsible to undertake full-process management of Vietnam new core projects, covering planning, scope, changes, risks, issues, costs, manpower, administration, and daily integrated management modules, aligning with best practices for PMO in large integrated projects of overseas banks:

Project plan management: Prepare overall project plans, phase iteration and milestone plans; break down and deliver tasks; follow up on project progress and node reviews - weekly/monthly progress reports;

Scope & Change Management: Controls project requirement boundaries and business scope, implements project change approval processes, requirements and ledger management to avoid scope escalation, coordinates requirements review and changes in a closed loop;

Risk & Problem Management: Build project risk ledgers to identify business, technical, cross-cultural, local compliance, and delivery risks; Follow up on project defects and bottleneck issues in a closed loop, and develop risk response plans;

Cost & Human Resource Management: Manage project budgeting, outsourced/on-site costs, coordinate on-site team scheduling, resource scheduling, attendance, and performance coordination for the project on-site team;

Comprehensive administration & local management: Responsible for the project on-site team office administration, local logistics, cross-departmental collaboration and meetings, document archiving, and project asset control;

Process implementation: Implementing standardized PMO processes and project templates, accumulating best practices in the project delivery to support subsequent project re-use locally.

Other ad-hoc assignments assign by the superior when needed.

Qualification

Preferred graduates with a degree in IT or Business Management. Graduates from other disciplines might be considered if they have relevant job experiences.

At least 2 - 3 years of full-time experience as a fintech/banking core system project PMO; experience in large-scale of new projects in Southeast Asia is preferred;

Proficient in the six core control modules of project planning, scope, change, risk, cost, and manpower; familiar with waterfall + agile hybrid project management models; proficient in using Project, Jira, Excel advanced functions, and project reporting tools;

Experience in handling client-side connections, with expertise in financial project compliance control and cross-border project collaboration logic;

Strong overall coordination skills, experience in administration + project management, skilled in cross-team and cross-cultural communication, emotionally stable and highly stress-resistant;

Fluent in Chinese or other countries languages i.e. Thai, Vietnamese, etc., is an added advantage as required to work closely with the stakeholder(s) from the headquarter in Shenzhen and customer within the region.

Willing to travel within Southeast Asian or other region when needed.

About Sunline International

Sunline International is a wholly funded subsidiary of Sunline Holding (HK) Limited, with offices in Hong Kong and Malaysia.

Sunline offers its customers an unparalleled suite of financial services solutions; ranging from digital banking, core banking to Islamic banking as well as peer-to-peer lending solutions.

At Sunline, our passion for advancement in financial technology goes beyond traditional financial services and into disruptive transformation, where we believe in transforming financial services problems into profitable opportunities.

Sunline Holding and Sunline International are part of Sunline Tech Co., Ltd (stock code: 300348), which is headquartered in Shenzhen; with offices in Hangzhou, Shanghai, Chengdu, Beijing, Hong Kong and Nanjing. Sunline employs over 6,000 employees worldwide.

About Sunline International

Sunline International is a wholly funded subsidiary of Sunline Holding (HK) Limited, with offices in Hong Kong and Malaysia.

Sunline offers its customers an unparalleled suite of financial services solutions; ranging from digital banking, core banking to Islamic banking as well as peer‑to‑peer lending solutions.

At Sunline, our passion for advancement in financial technology goes beyond traditional financial services and into disruptive transformation, where we believe in transforming financial services problems into profitable opportunities.

Sunline Holding and Sunline International are part of Sunline Tech Co., Ltd (stock code: 300348), which is headquartered in Shenzhen; with offices in Hangzhou, Shanghai, Chengdu, Beijing, Hong Kong and Nanjing. Sunline employs over 6,000 employees worldwide.