Project Management Specialist, Regional Trade Operations, Institutional Banking Group Operation[...]

Out in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a seasoned Project Manager to lead regional trade projects. The ideal candidate has over 8 years of experience and will manage project planning, stakeholder communication, and risk mitigation strategies. This role focuses on optimizing technology operations while ensuring successful project delivery amidst dynamic challenges.

Qualifications

• More than 8 years of strong project management experience.
• Expert in customer requirements analysis and user stories.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead regional trade projects and manage deliverables.
• Develop project plans and track progress.
• Conduct training for end-users and gather feedback.

Skills

Project Management

Requirements Gathering

Communication

Analytical Skills

Documentation

Tools

Microsoft Project

Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Job description

Business Function

Group Technology and Operations (T&O) enables and empowers the bank with an efficient, nimble and resilient infrastructure through a strategic focus on productivity, quality & control, technology, people capability and innovation. In Group T&O, we manage the majority of the Bank's operational processes and inspire to delight our business partners through our multiple banking delivery channels.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Regional Trade projects, including collaborate with GTS, Ops and Tech and all other stakeholders to identify and prioritize critical project milestones and deliverables.
• Develop project plans identifying schedules, specifications, risks and contingency plan
• Handle multiple large scale and/or moderately complex projects deliverables concurrently
• Understand functional requirements, ability to articulate and document user requirements and participates in review sessions with key stakeholders
• Continuously gathers feedback from all project team members to track progress and mitigate risk
• Maintain awareness of technical progress and risks for assigned projects, confer with technical personnel to resolve issues and drive corrective actions.
• Prepare project status reports and facilitates both technical and non-technical meetings/design reviews in order to keep management and other stockholders informed of project status and other related project issues
• Conduct review/ walkthrough sessions with key stakeholders (e.g. Product GTS, Operations BAU, testers and Technology teams) for the following documents:
• User stories
• Functional specifications documents
• Test plan and test cases
• Roll-out training material
• Track and monitor the production issues with Tech and Ops
• Participate in the pre-implementation preparation and post-implementation support exercises including end-user live verification during roll-out.

Requirements

• More than 8 years of strong project management experience with a proven track record (waterfall or agile model).
• Relevant knowledge on Trade systems and experience as system end user will be advantageous
• Proven experience in requirements gathering, functional testing and conducting training to end-user.
• Expertise in analyzing customer requirements and translating the same into user stories, test strategy and test cases
• Possess strong written and verbal communications skills
• Demonstrates good work ethics and is able to adapt to changes and is able to deliver within tight timelines
• Highly detail oriented, organized and organizationally agile individual preferred.
• Ability to operate self-sufficiently under strategic direction
• Willingness to adapt to dynamic circumstances
• Expert with Word, Excel, Microsoft Project, PowerPoint and others project tools