Senior Project Manager Temenos

ANTAES ASIA PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ANTAES ASIA PTE. LTD. in Singapore is seeking a Transact Project Manager to coordinate a multi-stream IT portfolio.

You will maintain a consolidated Transact roadmap, define scope, owners, milestones and dependencies, and ensure realistic delivery plans across Transact and related WITT streams. You will lead end-to-end delivery, manage risks with a RAID log, drive governance and reporting, coordinate across estates, and secure production readiness for major deployments.

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 organizational capabilities.
• Ability to challenge plans, commitments and priorities.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a consolidated view of all Transact projects and initiatives.
• Build and maintain the Transact roadmap with milestones, releases and dependencies.
• Ensure each initiative has defined scope, owner, planning, dependencies and delivery target.
• Identify conflicts or overlaps between projects and facilitate prioritization.
• Monitor impact of changes on the Transact roadmap.

Skills

Project management

Governance

Dependency management

Stakeholder management

Analysis

Prioritization

Communication

Leadership

Tools

Temenos Transact / T24

Job description

Key Responsibilities

1. Transact Project Portfolio Management

• 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 prioritization when required.
• Monitor the impact of new demands and changes on the existing Transact roadmap.

2. 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.

3. Governance & Reporting

• Establish and maintain a clear governance framework for the Transact perimeter.
• Prepare consolidated reporting covering delivery status, milestones, risks and issues, dependencies, decisions required, capacity constraints, key upcoming activities.
• Provide management with a single, reliable view of the Transact portfolio
• Organize and facilitate regular Transact project reviews with the relevant stakeholders.

4. Risk & Dependency Management

• Maintain a consolidated RAID log covering Risks, Actions, Issues and Dependencies.
• Identify critical dependencies across projects and WITT streams.
• Anticipate potential delivery bottlenecks.
• Ensure mitigation and recovery plans are defined, owned and followed.
• Escalate critical risks early enough to allow management decisions and corrective actions.

5. 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.

6. Stakeholder Management

Act as the main coordination point between the relevant stakeholders, including:

• WITT OPS,
• WITT IT streams,
• Business teams,
• Operations,
• Transact teams,
• Architecture,
• 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

The Transact PM will maintain, at minimum:

• Transact master roadmap
• Consolidated project portfolio
• Milestone and delivery tracker
• RAID log
• Cross-stream dependency tracker
• Decision log
• Release / deployment calendar
• Management dashboard
• Weekly Transact status report
• Action tracker with owner and target date

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

Required Experience & Skills

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 organizational 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

Success in the role will be measured by the ability to:

1. Provide one consolidated and reliable view of everything impacting Transact.
2. Ensure that no major dependency or risk is discovered too late.
3. Improve coordination between Transact and the other WITT streams.
4. Increase predictability of Transact deliveries.
5. Ensure clear ownership and follow-up of actions and decisions.
6. Identify capacity or planning conflicts sufficiently early to allow arbitration.
7. 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 doted reporting line to WITT Program Manager