Senior Murex Project Manager

Bounteous; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bounteous seeks an experienced Mandarin-speaking Murex Project Manager to drive Murex initiatives across South East Asia. This role demands a structured, delivery-focused PM who can manage complex workstreams across scope, planning, governance, execution, quality, risk, dependencies, and resourcing.

The successful candidate will coordinate with client stakeholders, internal delivery teams, Murex SMEs, technology teams, vendors, and system integrators to ensure delivery aligns with objectives,

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a Project Manager delivering Murex or capital markets technology projects.
• Strong understanding of Murex delivery across front-to-back workstreams, governance, testing, and go-live support.
• Proven ability to coordinate across multiple stakeholders including business users, IT, vendors, and system integrators.

Responsibilities

• Lead Murex project delivery across implementation, upgrade, migration, or transformation workstreams.
• Build, maintain, and manage project plans, milestones, dependencies, RAID, and governance packs.
• Coordinate delivery across client stakeholders, internal teams, Murex SMEs, analysts, technical teams, vendors, and system integrators.
• Manage scope, priorities, risks, issues, dependencies, and delivery commitments.
• Support requirements clarification, solution alignment, and stakeholder communication.
• Track progress against timelines, milestones, quality controls, and deviations from plan.
• Coordinate SIT, UAT, regression testing, defect tracking, and cutover readiness.
• Provide clear weekly status updates and steering committee inputs to senior stakeholders.
• Coordinate cross-workstream activities across Front Office to Confirmations in Murex environments.

Skills

Project management

Murex delivery

Stakeholder management

Governance

Planning

Communication

Regional client-facing

Tools

Murex

Job description

We are seeking an experienced, Mandarin speaking Murex Project Manager to support the delivery of Murex initiatives across South East Asia. This role requires a structured and delivery-focused project manager who can manage complex Murex workstreams across scope, planning, governance, execution, quality, risk, dependencies, resourcing, and stakeholder communication.

The successful candidate will coordinate across client stakeholders, internal delivery teams, Murex SMEs, technology teams, project contributors, vendors, and system integrators, ensuring delivery remains aligned with agreed project objectives, timelines, milestones, and quality expectations. The role requires strong ownership, clear communication, and the ability to manage multiple moving parts across a capital markets / banking technology environment.

Requirements:

• Strong experience as a Project Manager delivering Murex or capital markets technology projects across implementation, upgrade, migration, enhancement, integration, regulatory change, or transformation programmes.
• Good understanding of Murex project delivery, including front-to-back workstreams, project governance, testing, deployment, cutover, and post-go-live support.
• Experience managing complex project delivery across multiple stakeholders, including business users, IT teams, operations teams, vendors, system integrators, and senior management.
• Strong understanding of delivery governance, including scope management, planning, RAID, dependencies, budget tracking, resource coordination, quality management, and escalation control.
• Ability to build, review, and maintain project plans, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, status reports, and governance packs.
• Experience coordinating SIT, UAT, regression testing, defect management, release readiness, cutover planning, go/no-go preparation, and production handover.
• Strong communication skills, including senior-level reporting, steering committee preparation, project updates, issue escalation, and stakeholder follow-up.
• Ability to work autonomously, proactively, and with strong follow-up discipline in a regional client-facing environment.
• Prior experience across South East Asia banking environments, treasury platforms, trading systems, or front-to-back capital markets transformation would be advantageous.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead Murex project delivery across implementation, upgrade, migration, enhancement, integration, regulatory, or transformation workstreams.
• Build, maintain, and manage project plans, delivery milestones, dependencies, RAID logs, status reports, and project governance materials.
• Coordinate delivery across client stakeholders, internal teams, Murex SMEs, business analysts, technical teams, vendors, QA teams, and system integrators.
• Manage project scope, priorities, risks, issues, assumptions, decisions, dependencies, and delivery commitments.
• Support requirements clarification, solution alignment, delivery prioritisation, project planning, and stakeholder communication.
• Track and manage project progress against timelines, milestones, deliverables, quality controls, risks, and deviations against plan.
• Coordinate testing phases including SIT, UAT, regression testing, defect tracking, test readiness, and business sign-off.
• Support release readiness, cutover planning, go/no-go preparation, implementation planning, and post-release follow-up.
• Provide clear weekly status updates, project review materials, steering committee inputs, and escalation updates to senior stakeholders.
• Manage cross-workstream coordination across front-to-back Murex areas such as Front Office, Middle Office, Back Office, Risk, Finance, Operations, Market Data, Interfaces, Reporting, Settlements, and Confirmations.
• Support resource planning, staffing coordination, vendor management, and delivery capacity tracking across project activities.
• Ensure delivery remains aligned to business objectives, project governance standards, operational readiness, regulatory expectations, and implementation best practice.