AVP, Project Manager / Business Analyst (Loans & Capital Markets Systems)

SMBC Group; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

SMBC Group in Singapore is seeking a Project Manager to lead Agency Loans projects, ensuring timely, within-budget delivery and clear stakeholder communication. You will work with business users to capture requirements and coordinate with technology teams on IT solutions.

The role involves developing charters, scope, risk assessments, budgets, and engaging with Product Owners to address business needs. You will also support production applications and oversee cross-workstream/vendor delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Finance & Banking or commerce with at least 6 years of experience.
• Experience in syndicated loans, loan origination and related operations.
• Knowledge of banking processes, solution design and regulatory requirements in APAC.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end implementation of Agency Loans projects within time and budget.
• Document user requirements and propose IT solutions with technology teams.
• Support creation of charters, scope, risk assessments and budgets.
• Collaborate with Product Owners/Transformation to address business goals.
• Provide L1/L2 production support and oversee vendor delivery.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Excellent communication

Project leadership

Presentation skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT / Finance & Banking / Commerce

Job description

Job Responsibilities

• Work with Program lead to manage implementation of Agency Loans related projects, ensuring delivery within time, budget, and specifications, managing the end-to-end execution, till project closure.
• Engage business users, perform business analysis of business requests relating to project, understand and document user requirements, engage with technology teams to formulate solutions to address business pain points.
• Support in creation of project charters, scope documents, risk assessments, budgets and IT Value (ROI, IRR) discussions.
• Conduct feasibility studies and confirm resulting business unit decisions.
• Collaborate with Product Owners or Transformation teams to understand business goals, needs or pain points and initiate necessary projects to address these.
• Perform technology solutioning, collaborate with business analysts to co-create business requirements to define scope of projects; collaborate with Engineering and Architecture teams to outline IT solution.
• Support L1 and L2 teams to manage production applications owned by team.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology; Finance & Banking or commerce with min 6 years working experience.
• Good experience in, or knowledge of syndicated loans, loan origination, loans related products and operations.
• Good technical knowledge with experience in banking business process re-engineering and solution design.
• Experience in Investment or Corporate Banking Domains and regional (Asia Pacific) preferred.
• Good experience with Asia Pacific banking regulations and rules including cloud guidelines, third party risk management and regulatory compliance requirements.
• Good experience or understanding of solution architecture, design patterns and best practices in business-technology solutioning.
• Good experience in stakeholder management, strong cross-functional collaboration skills, relationship building skills and ability to achieve results with these stakeholders in a collaborative manner.
• Excellent communication skills and strong ability to steer / influence positive outcome effectively.
• Good experience managing external partners and vendors; able to lead cross-workstream(s) and off-shore vendor delivery team(s).
• Professional certification, such as ITIL/ITSM, PMP would be an advantage.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Work location: One@ChangiCity