Regional Trade Finance Project Leader

DBS BANK LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

DBS Bank Ltd. in Singapore seeks an experienced Project Manager to lead regional trade initiatives, coordinating with GTS, Ops and Tech to define milestones and deliverables. You will develop plans, gather requirements, and manage risks across multiple large-scale projects while keeping stakeholders informed.

The role requires strong communication, end-user training experience, and the ability to adapt to dynamic conditions to deliver on tight timelines.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 to 4 years of strong project management experience with a proven track record (waterfall or agile).
• Relevant knowledge on Trade systems and experience as system end user is essential.
• Proven experience in requirements gathering, functional testing and conducting training to end-user.
• Expertise in analysing 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 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.

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.

Skills

Project management

Waterfall/Agile

Stakeholder management

Requirements gathering

Communication

Training end-user

Tools

Microsoft Project

Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

DBS Bank Ltd. in Singapore seeks an experienced Project Manager to lead regional trade initiatives, coordinating with GTS, Ops and Tech to define milestones and deliverables. You will develop plans, gather requirements, and manage risks across multiple large-scale projects while keeping stakeholders informed.

The role requires strong communication, end-user training experience, and the ability to adapt to dynamic conditions to deliver on tight timelines.