Finance jobs in Malaysia

The Opportunity:

You will have a chance to be part of the Zurich Edge Platform that is an end-to-end Digital Native Insurance Platform to enable new distribution models. Insurance offerings on this platform will be specifically designed for straight through processing across the full insurance value chain. As a Technology Delivery Manager, your responsibility is to drive the delivery of projects related to the APAC Digital Retail Platform.

Key Responsibilities:

• Implement agile methodology, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.
• Determining, monitoring and managing tasks, issues, risks, and action items.
• Scheduling and facilitating Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, other meetings, and decision-making processes.
• Monitoring progress and performance and helping teams to make improvements.
• Planning of business workshops, organizing demos and product/system testing.
• Manage dependencies between vendor deliverables and scrum team delivery plans.
• Coach the Scrum team in self-organization, cross-functional skillset, domain knowledge and communicate effectively, both internally and externally working within the Scrum team.
• Ensure the proper use of collaborative processes and removing impediments for the project team.
• Tracking project processes, deliverables, and financials.
• Preparing and presenting of regular status reports to stakeholders.
• Work with the project team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organizational project or product teams.
• Work with IT Vendors, partners and internal delivery teams in ensuring pragmatic delivery.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Prior experience and proven track record of managing delivery of IT projects with remote teams located in multiple locations.
• Experience as a project manager, or delivery manager.
• Experience in financial services / insurance highly regarded.
• Prior experience in web technologies, cloud and APIs highly regarded.
• Courses and certifications in Project Management and/or scrum methodology.
• Strong knowledge of using JIRA for managing projects.
• Knowledge of DevOps tools and methodologies.
• Ability to lead by influence.
• Ability to work across diverse Asian cultures.