Senior IT Program Lead - Global Banking IT & Governance

CREDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

CréditAgricole Corporate and Investment Banking in Singapore seeks a senior lead project manager to lead the Project Management team and drive complex programs across APAC and EMEA regions. You will mobilize project teams, align stakeholders with business goals, and oversee delivery within time, cost, and quality constraints.

You will establish governance, promote project management best practices, and develop capabilities through coaching and mentoring to ensure successful project outcomes.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of relevant experiences, ideally in a CIB banking environment.
• Leadership and team management skills with ability to coordinate across functions, regions and cultures.
• PMP or other project management certification would be a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage the list of CIB IT projects, collaborating with leadership across departments and prioritize projects based on business need.
• Direct the work of Project managers and provide managerial oversight for multiple projects.
• Act as point of escalation for the Project management team.
• Create and develop a governance structure for efficient stakeholder management.
• Promote the project management service.
• Develops organizational project management capabilities through training, coaching, and individual meetings/discussions.
• Develop strategy for control and governance structures to ensure desired outcomes across the projects.
• Monitor and analyse project metrics and to propose improvements and cost savings for future projects.
• Ensure successful delivery of all projects against cost, time, scope, quality and security measures.
• Operate autonomously and handle large scale APAC/EMEA regional IT projects by understanding local regulations.
• Clarify the needs of the client and translate them into rigorous requirement lists.
• Identify standard and project specific deliverables, key assumptions, follow and mitigate risks and issues.
• Anticipate early in the project any compliance / regulatory requirement and start informing stakeholders of such risk and measure their impact.
• Define, measure and report project KPI with right level of information.
• Identify right resource within teams and constitute / coordinate project team members.
• Report or escal... any important risk and issues to Sponsor and local management for appropriate action.
• Create, review or adapt when necessary existing processes to make them more relevant, efficient and optimal.
• Communicate to Sponsor any change with right level of information and manage to get his approval.
• Follow, report budget actual/forecast to project stakeholders and local management.
• Set relevant control in place to ensure that what has been delivered meets requirements validated.
• Manage and document the project hand over with production teams.
• Continuously improve project management toolkits.

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Big picture thinking

Drill down complex issues

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Communication

Influence and motivate

Public speaking

Negotiation

Tools

MS Project

Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Visio

VMware

Kubernetes

Job description

CréditAgricole Corporate and Investment Banking in Singapore seeks a senior lead project manager to lead the Project Management team and drive complex programs across APAC and EMEA regions. You will mobilize project teams, align stakeholders with business goals, and oversee delivery within time, cost, and quality constraints.

You will establish governance, promote project management best practices, and develop capabilities through coaching and mentoring to ensure successful project outcomes.