Senior Business Project Manager

BDO UNIBANK, INC. (SINGAPORE BRANCH); Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

BDO UNIBANK, INC. (SINGAPORE BRANCH) is seeking a Business Project Manager to lead a portfolio of projects for the Singapore branch. You will assist the Commercial Banking Head and the Chief Executive to ensure initiatives are delivered on time and within budget.

Responsibilities include planning, tracking, and reporting; managing resources and vendors; and coordinating diverse internal and external teams to drive project success and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of process enhancement, product development, or process automation projects
• Prepare a detailed project plan outlining key milestones, workstreams, and activities; manage delivery
• Track project progress and provide regular reports on status to project team and stakeholders
• Manage and adjust for changes in project priority, scope, schedule, and budget
• Identify, escalate and mitigate potential risks throughout the project lifecycle
• Oversee communication and relationships with project stakeholders
• Manage internal resources and/or external vendors to ensure successful project completion
• Coordinating diverse teams including internal and third-party members
• Applies good project management practices such as breaking down interdependent activities into tasks and sub-tasks
• Articulates problems, bring the right people together to solve problems and close issues
• Applies lessons learned from recent projects to future projects

Job description

Job Mandate

The Business Project Manager is primarily responsible for managing projects for Singapore Branch. He/She assists the Commercial Banking Head and Chief Executive inensruing that change projects are delivered according to timeline and budget.

Duties & Responsibilities

Project Management

• Responsible for a portfolio of process enhancement, product development, or process automation projects
• Prepare a detailed project plan outlining key milestone, workstreams, and activities; manage project delivery according to this plan
• Track project progress and provide regular reports on status to the project team and key stakeholders.
• Manage and adjust for changes in project priority, scope, schedule, and budget.
• Identify, escalation and mitigate potential risks throughout the project lifecycle.
• Oversee communication and relationships with project stakeholders
• Manage internal resources and/or external vendors to ensure successful project completion
• Coordinating diverse teams including internal and third-party members.
• Applies good project management practices such as techniques in resolving complex, interdependent activities into tasks and sub-tasks that are documented, monitored and controlled
• Articulates problems, bring the right people together to solve problems and know when the problem has been properly addressed and closed
• Applies lessons learned from recent projects to future projects

Business Management Support

• Act as contact point person accross all Business Units, especially in terms of business risk and control, operational matters, information dissemination, co-ordination on general queries and escalation, regulatory and compliance matters, and other business initiatives
• Perform Risk Management and Control tasks (e.g. KRI monitoring, incident reporting, audit point closures, RM scorecard monitoring, etc.)
• Support Center Heads with various business Initiatives; represent Front Office in regular process enhancement and new product working groups
• Support Center Heads Monitor Key Performance Indicators.
• Collaborate with MIS and Finance to support Center Heads in monitoring, tracking and analyzing individual and team important metrics.
• Facilitate discussions between RMs/ARMs and support partners in clarification/resolution of business issues (e.g. payment/AML queries).
• Facilitate readiness and participation in business contingency planning (BCP).