Senior Project Manager – T24 Core Banking

Tech Aalto Pte ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Tech Aalto Pte Ltd in Singapore is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead end-to-end delivery of large IT initiatives, with emphasis on T24 Core Banking. You will drive multi‑squad collaboration, define scopes, schedules and budgets, and ensure quality, risk controls and compliance across stakeholders.

The role requires extensive experience managing complex projects in banking, strong communication, and the ability to shepherd initiatives from concept to go‑live within a matrix organisation.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years of IT project management experience (Waterfall/Agile).
• Proven delivery of major projects on time, within budget and quality standards.
• Experience in senior stakeholder management and governance processes.
• Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting and risk management.
• Deep knowledge of T24 Core Banking and Temenos wealth suites is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and detail project ideas, feasibility, risks and success factors with Business and IT stakeholders.
• Develop project proposals with objectives, resources, milestones, costs and structure.
• Drive proposals through demand governance and set up project management processes.
• Lead project teams in SIT/UAT/BRD walkthroughs and status reporting to executives.
• Manage scope, time, budget, risks and issues; handle change requests and roll-out/go-live activities.

Skills

IT Project Management

Waterfall/Agile

T24 Core Banking

Stakeholder management

Budget/Forecasting

Risk management

SDLC

Banking domain knowledge

Communication

Job description

Senior Project Manager – T24 Core Banking

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

This role is for a Senior Project Manager with experience in managing multiple large complex projects and running Agile squads. The Project Manager is responsible for the end-to-end project delivery based on committed scope, time and budget of a project. The role relates to the classic delivery model.

kEY FEATURES OF THE POSITION

Must have skills:

Module: T24

Domain: Private Banking/Wealth Products & Credit Experience

• Preferred with most of the experience in handling Credit Products (e.g. Mortgage, Lombard Loans, Structured Finance, Guarantees),
• Have a good understanding of products offered in the Private Banking with Transact modules exposure (AA, MD, SC, DX, SY etc).

Project Management

• Analysing and detailing the project idea, assessing the project idea in terms of feasibility, cost-effective-ness, risks and success factors in consultation with Business and IT stakeholder
• Develop the project proposal with objectives, resources, milestones, schedule, costs, expenses and project structure
• Drive project proposal through demand governance process
• Set up appropriate project management processes, measure project performance and report status to senior stakeholders
• Initiate escalations to senior stakeholders if needed
• Develop detailed project plan and create work break down structure (subprojects, work packages, etc)
• Set up an appropriate project organization, including identification and management of stakeholders and team members
• Actively lead the team/squad in various project meetings i.e. SIT / UAT checkpoint calls, BRD walkthroughs, Solution Walkthroughs.
• Manage scope, time, budget, risks and issues on an operational level
• Identify the impact of change requests, issues and changes to underlying assumptions; for project plan variances, develop solution proposals and reconcile them with the demand governance stakeholders
• Manage roll‑out / go‑live and for the hand‑over of the solution to the Operations organizations
• Establish and implement project‑related quality assurance processes and measures; ensure the quality of the outcomes and drive their respective acceptance and approval

Stakeholder Management

• Represents IT Asia as an ITPL/ Scrum Master when facing off with internal and external stakeholders
• Work with team members to proactively mitigate risk and provide clear communication plan in a timely manner.
• Provide regular project/program updates to stakeholders.
• Present to stakeholders on progress as well as problems and solutions
• Communicate key insights and findings to IT and business counterparts and work closely with them. Lead knowledge sharing with RTB team for newly implemented modules or functionalities.
• Ensure delivery is predictable i.e. stakeholder are updated regular on the progress and the risks

Regulatory Responsibilities &/OR Risk Management

• Demonstration of appropriate values and behaviours including but not limited to standards on honesty and integrity, due care and diligence, fair dealing (treating customers fairly), management of conflicts of interest, competence and continuous development, adequate risk management, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
• E nsure appropriate ethical and compliant behaviour within the function by clear demonstration of appropriate values and behaviours including but not limited to standards on honesty and integrity, due care and diligence, fair dealing (treating customers fairly), management of conflicts of interest, competence and continuous development, adequate risk management, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations

SKILLS REQUIREMENTS OF THE POSITION

Professional and Technical

• Minimum 5+ years of IT experience in Project Management in running Waterfall/ Agile projects
• Proven experience in successful delivery of major projects, on time and with quality and within matrix team structures
• Experience in Senior stakeholder management running projects STCs
• Experience in managing project financials (forecast v actual)
• Good understanding of technology trends in banking is preferred
• Working experience of SDLC and Agile methodology
• Deep understanding of T24 Core Banking, Temenos wealth suite would be preferred.

Personal and Social

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills to challenge business/technical requirements to build good and scalable solutions.
• Good written and verbal communication skills including technical writing skills.
• Self-driven, highly motivated, hardworking and agile enough to work both independently and as a team player.
• Having very high quality standards for the service delivered to business and have an Eye for attention to detail.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple, concurrent / conflicting priorities with business and IT stakeholders.