Senior Project Manager Core Banking

Antaes Asia; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Antaés Asia is seeking a seasoned Project Manager to coordinate the Transact program across WITT streams and business partners in Singapore. You will own the program roadmap, manage milestones, and ensure clear ownership and delivery targets for each initiative.

You will lead cross-functional teams through design, build, testing, deployment and post-go-live activities, balancing priorities, dependencies and risks.

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing complex IT projects or portfolios.
• Strong understanding of project governance, planning, RAID management and dependency management.
• Ability to manage several initiatives simultaneously.
• Strong analytical and organisational capabilities.
• Ability to challenge plans, commitments and priorities.
• Comfortable interacting with senior management.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a consolidated view of all WITT projects and initiatives impacting Transact.
• Build and maintain the Transact roadmap with milestones, releases and dependencies.
• Define scope, owner, planning, dependencies and delivery targets for each initiative.
• Identify conflicts or overlaps between projects and facilitate prioritisation.
• Monitor impact of new demands on the Transact roadmap.

Skills

Project governance

RAID management

Dependency management

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Analytical skills

Planning and delivery

Leadership

Tools

Temenos Transact / T24

Job description

Responsibilities

• Maintain a consolidated view of all WITT projects and initiatives impacting Transact.
• Build and maintain the overall Transact roadmap, including key milestones, releases and dependencies.
• Ensure that each initiative has a clearly defined scope, owner, planning, dependencies and delivery target.
• Identify conflicts or overlaps between projects and facilitate prioritisation when required.
• Monitor the impact of new demands and changes on the existing Transact roadmap.

End-to-End Delivery Coordination

• Follow projects from initial assessment through design, build, testing, deployment and post-production follow-up.
• Coordinate the different contributors involved in Transact deliveries.
• Ensure dependencies between Transact and other WITT streams/assets are identified early and actively managed.
• Challenge delivery plans and ensure that commitments are realistic and properly secured.
• Escalate blockers and deviations when necessary and drive remediation plans.

Governance & Reporting

• Establish and maintain a clear governance framework for the Transact perimeter.
• – milestones
• – risks and issues
• – capacity constraints
• – key upcoming activities

Provide management with a single, reliable view of the Transact portfolio.

Organise and facilitate regular Transact project reviews with the relevant stakeholders.

Maintain a consolidated RAID log covering Risks, Actions, Issues and Dependencies.

Identify critical dependencies across projects and WITT streams.

Ensure mitigation and recovery plans are defined, owned and followed.

Escalate critical risks early enough to allow management decisions and corrective actions.

Release & Operational Readiness

• Coordinate Transact-related activities with the relevant WITT release and operational processes.
• Ensure production readiness is assessed before major deployments.
• Track operational prerequisites, cutover activities and post-go-live actions.
• Ensure that project deliveries properly transition into the operational model.

Stakeholder Management

• Act as the main coordination point between the relevant stakeholders, including:
• – WITT OPS
• – WITT IT streams
• – Business teams
• – Operations
• – Transact teams
• – Testing teams
• – Release Management
• – Production / Support teams
• – external partners or vendors when applicable

The PM is expected to connect the different teams and proactively resolve cross-stream topics, rather than simply reporting them.

EXPECTED DELIVERABLES

• Consolidated project portfolio
• Milestone and delivery tracker
• Cross-stream dependency tracker
• Release / deployment calendar
• Weekly Transact status report
• Action tracker with owner and target date

TECHNICAL & BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES

Project Management

• Proven experience managing complex IT projects or portfolios.
• Strong understanding of project governance, planning, RAID management and dependency management.
• Ability to manage several initiatives simultaneously.
• Strong analytical and organisational capabilities.
• Ability to challenge plans, commitments and priorities.

Banking / Technology

• Experience in banking IT, preferably Wealth Management or Private Banking.
• Good understanding of core banking platforms and their integration within a complex information system.
• Knowledge of Temenos Transact / T24 is a must.
• Understanding of banking operations, releases, testing and production processes.

Leadership

• Strong coordination and stakeholder-management skills.
• Comfortable working across Business, IT and Operations.
• Ability to influence contributors without necessarily having direct hierarchical authority.
• Strong communication and synthesis skills.
• Ability to elevate issues clearly while remaining solution-oriented.
• Comfortable interacting with senior management.

KEY SUCCESS CRITERIA

• Provide one consolidated and reliable view of everything impacting Transact.
• Ensure that no major dependency or risk is discovered too late.
• Improve coordination between Transact and the other WITT streams.
• Increase predictability of Transact deliveries.
• Ensure clear ownership and follow-up of actions and decisions.
• Identify capacity or planning conflicts sufficiently early to allow arbitration.
• Facilitate faster resolution of blockers impacting WITT deliveries.

MISCELLANEOUS & REPORTING LINE

• The position will include some travel mainly from Singapore to India and potentially to Europe based on the need.
• The Transact PM will report directly to the OPS Division Head and will have a dotted reporting line to WITT Program Manager.