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IT Team Head (Cash Management/Reporting)

SCIENTE INTERNATIONAL PTE. LTD.

Singapore

On-site

USD 100,000 - 150,000

Full time

2 days ago
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Job summary

A leading company in financial services is seeking a Head of Team in Cash Management and Corporate Banking Services. In this strategic role, you will ensure your team's activities align with client standards and lead delivery on enterprise scale projects, driving quality and efficiency in the organization. If you have extensive leadership experience and a strong background in payment systems, apply now to join a dynamic team.

Qualifications

  • 12+ years of overall IT experience.
  • Minimum 3 years of Team and People management practices.
  • Experience in Cash Management and Reporting systems.

Responsibilities

  • Supervise and oversee a team of around 10 members.
  • Plan, organize and prioritize work to meet deadlines.
  • Engage with senior stakeholders to win cases for the team.

Skills

Leadership
Interpersonal skills
Project delivery
Agile delivery
Time-management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer science / Information systems

Job description

Job Summary:

The Head of Team in Cash Management and Corporate Banking Services (CCS) will be managing Customer’s report generation to ensure that all the programs, projects, activities and tasks under the team’s responsibility are performed cost-effectively, on schedule, in conformance with the client’s policies and standards and within agreed levels of quality.

Mandatory Skill-set:

  • A minimum education of Bachelor’s degree in Computer science / Information systems.
  • 12+ years of overall IT experience with 4 years of experience in delivery of enterprise scale critical systems projects
  • Minimum 3 years of Team and People management practices.
  • Excellent project delivery experience and knowledge about mentoring/guiding the teams involved in technology deliveries using Spring, Spring boot, any public cloud offering (AWS, GCP or Azure), Dockers, Kubernetes, Storm or Flink or Spark, Kafka, HBase, HDFS
  • Experience in Cash Management and Reporting systems solutions
  • Good knowledge in Payment area like interaction with Clearing, payment file format ISO20022, SEPA and SWIFT. Hands-on experience with such data mapping and testing
  • Hands on experience on payment systems and exposure to Payments Hub, Clearing and Settlement, Automated clearing house programs and channels
  • Extensive knowledge on various kinds of payment products such as TT, RTGS, LVP, Payroll, Cheque, DD, Cashier Order, Mass & Bulk payments
  • Good knowledge on report format SWIFT MT (MT940, MT942, MT50 etc) and SWIFT MX ( CAMT 52, CAMT 53, CAMT 53, PACS 02 etc)
  • Experience in engaging with senior stakeholders and win cases for the team.
  • Practices in Agile delivery
  • A technical functional mind-set with great attention to detail
  • Good leadership skills
  • Team player
  • Good time-management skills
  • Good interpersonal and communication skills

Responsibilities:

  • As the leader of team (of around 10 team members comprising tech and domain experts) – Supervise and oversee them
  • Plan, organize and prioritize the work assigned to the team in order to meet committed deadlines and other agreed milestones
  • Identify, evaluate and report issues and risks to ensure corrective and/or preventive measures are timely taken
  • Ensure team’s activities are in adherence to client’s standards and norms.
  • Ensure the processes applied are in adherence to the Section operational model.
  • Actively participate/contribute to GIT Paris/ISAP governance for his/her domain.
  • Continuously monitor the satisfaction level of the customers and put efforts to maintain and improve it
  • Continuously monitor the quality of the deliveries and the quality of service.
  • Evaluate staff knowledge & skills and recommend training.
  • Review and conduct appraisals for the team members.
  • Facilitate staff mobility and career development.
  • Human capital Management - recruitment, career progression planning, Team Engagement and motivation, Coaching & Mentoring.
  • Implement standard DevOps practices including test automation, efficient CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Monitoring as Code and End to End Observability kind of Software Factory best practices.
  • Incorporate Continuous improvement process and culture on projects management & implementations, run and cost/budget.
  • Supervises and follow-up Level 3 Support Activities when the Global Support Team (L1&L2) is in need of system expertise.
  • Initiate and drive technical transformation / innovation projects to ensure that applications / systems will be able to cope with market and business demands.
  • Work closely with domain and Enterprise Architects & Business users.

Organize and supervise all activities of the team

  • Ensure proper ramp-up and ramp-down of the team as per the client requirement
  • Manage budget and capacity allocation according to priorities communicated by functional manager
  • Ensure the applications adhere to the modern standards
  • Ensure applications are phased out from legacy tech and moved to new tech
  • Ensure modern dev-sec-ops standards are implemented in all the project/application build lifecycle

Design, implement, test, deploy, support and maintain applications under your perimeter

  • Ensure high-quality technical and functional design of the application stack.
  • Ensure a smooth end-to-end implementation of the modules in charge using GIT best practices as well as overall GIT quality framework
  • Ensure the proper UAT and production support of the modules delivered
  • Identify, evaluate and report risks and issues to ensure corrective and/or preventive measures are timely taken

Coordinate with other development teams of all the program initiatives in order to ensure consistency across projects and modules of different programs the systems are engaged with.

  • Coordinate with other development teams in order to optimise the global roadmap and associated constraints
  • Ensure the good usage of chapters in order to smoothly circulate the information inside and outside the team.
  • Coordinate with the integration team in order to align strictly the development with the product owner’s priorities.

Manage and improve team capabilities

  • Ensure cohesion and commitment of the team on its assigned mission.
  • Evaluate staff members’ skill/knowledge and recommend training plan, organize staff mobility and staff career development as needed
  • Make sure team members observe and respect the client’s code of conduct and comply with client's policies.
  • Organize and perform coaching to the team members to ensure continuous improvement.

Implement and refine project management processes in order to ensure projects success

  • Coordinate with program management in order to ensure an optimal usage of program methodology.
  • Propose and implement local tooling/processes improvement when necessary.

Perform Team Manager duties

  • Manage the team setup by identifying hiring needs and staffing with right profiles
  • Perform People management duties such as Career management, HR development and staff motivation.

Should you be interested in this career opportunity, please send in your updated resume to apply@sciente.com at the earliest.

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