Managing Director, Joint General Manager

GMP Technologies; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology solutions firm is seeking a Managing Director to define and implement strategies aligned with clients' IT needs. The role involves overseeing financial strategies, leading project teams, and building a high-performance culture. Candidates should have over 15 years of IT experience, particularly in the banking sector, and proficiency in English and Japanese is preferred for stakeholder engagement. This position is based in Singapore and requires effective leadership across various operational functions.

Qualifications

• Minimum 15 years of work experience in the IT infrastructure domain.
• Minimum 10 years experience in IT within the FI/Banking sector.
• Minimum 5 years experience in a planning role for enterprise infrastructure.
• Good understanding of control functions such as Finance, HR, and Compliance.
• Experience in managing and supervising multi-level teams (20 staff and above).
• Proficiency in both English and Japanese is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement medium to long-term strategy and roadmaps.
• Oversee financial strategy including budgeting and controlling revenue.
• Provide strategic direction for operational activities to meet client IT requirements.
• Lead project teams towards system development project goals.
• Build a high-performance, values-driven culture.
• Engage with senior stakeholders across locations.

Skills

Knowledge of software development life cycle

Change management

Service delivery management

Vendor management

Strong problem and conflict management skills

Excellent organization skills

Negotiation skills

Presentation skills

Job description

Managing Director, Joint General Manager

About the job Managing Director, Joint General Manager

Responsibilities

• Define medium to long-term strategy and implement roadmap of the Company in supporting its clients IT strategies
• Translate strategy into actionable goals for performance and growth helping to implement Companys goal setting, performance management and annual operating plan

Establishment of Strong Corporate and Control Functions

• Oversee financial strategy in development of financial models, budgets and analyses including annual budgeting, control revenue and expense, set and control yearly budget.
• Establish operational benchmarks, resources and people capabilities needed to achieve strategic goals.
• Manage and mitigate the Companys legal risk and govern all compliance related matters.

Day to Day Operations Oversight

• Provide strategic direction, leadership and management of operational activities ensuring IT requirements of client are met.
• Align and forge collaboration across functional through established performance management routines, measures and operating rhythm.
• Accountable for driving cost savings and digitalisation strategy.
• Review and endorse various memos to be circulated for approval as per approval matrix.

System Development Project Management

• Lead project teams to define and achieve all system development project goals.
• As project sponsor, interface with senior management teams of Company Headquarters and client to champion and drive project deliverables.

People and Culture

• Build a high-performance values-driven culture.
• Lead, develop and roll out strategic priorities for each department.
• Provide daily supervision to Department Heads, ensuring team heads/leads are motivated and equipped with skills and resource to manage their teams respectively.
• Oversee the hiring, training and coaching of mid-junior level managers.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Influence and forge collaboration across senior stakeholders in Japan HQ and client country and regional level to achieve strategic priorities.
• Provide senior leadership oversight to cross-functional projects.

Requirements

• Knowledge and experience in software development life cycle, change management, service deliver management and vendor management.
• Min. 15 years of work experience of IT infrastructure domain.
• Min. 10 years experience in IT of FI/Banking sector.
• Min. 5 years experience in planning role of current and future enterprise infrastructure, ensuring the scalability of infra design and architecture to handle expected growth.
• Good understanding of control functions such as Finance, HR and Compliance
• Experience in managing and supervising multi-level teams (20 staff and above).
• Proficiency in both English and Japanese is highly preferred as this role needs to prepare reports in Japanese for reporting to Head Office in Japan. This role also needs to present and communicate with senior stakeholders who mainly communicate in Japanese.
• Strong problem and conflict management skills.
• Excellent organization, negotiation and presentation skills.

For more information, please visit to www.gmprecruit.com and search for Job Reference: L7R4688X

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