Senior Project Manager Temenos

Antaes Consulting SA; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Antaes Consulting SA is seeking a Senior Transact PM to consolidate the Transact portfolio, define scope and drive delivery across IT streams. The role focuses on roadmap ownership, governance, and managing dependencies to secure on-time milestones.

You will coordinate cross-functional teams, escalate blockers, and ensure production readiness for major deployments, reporting to the OPS Division Head and linking with Temenos Transact stakeholders.

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 initiatives have defined scope, owner, planning and delivery target.
• Coordinate contributors and manage dependencies across streams and assets.
• Establish governance framework and provide consolidated status, risks and RAID logs.

Skills

Complex IT projects

Governance & reporting

Stakeholder management

Risk & dependency management

Cross-functional coordination

Tools

Temenos Transact / T24

Job description

• 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.
• 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.

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,
• 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.

The Transact PM will maintain, at minimum:

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

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:

• 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.

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

The main missions of the Senior Business Analyst will be to:

• Act as a key conduit between Front Office, Operations, Tax Stream, focusing on STP, process efficiency and recommendations of industry practices.
• Experienced in driving PLWs and able to advise new processes for new Transact applications, preferably with implementation experience.
• Gathers and documents Transact-focused requirements and translate operational/business needs into functional specifications. Experience in writing a BRD/FSD is a MUST.
• Analyses gaps in functionality and processes across European and Asian sites and proposing solutions to converge and align them into a common design, respecting WMIS standards and allowing for mutualization / reuse as much as possible between sites.
• Analyze and structure new requirements with all stakeholders involved in order to propose to the organization the best way to deliver appropriate solutions and integrate them in the overall program.
• Ensures all requirements are approached from a global perspective for all sites. Specific solution should only be considered to address regulatory, tax or accounting specific requirements.
• Provides SME support for FATCA, CRS and QI Compliance within Temenos Transact R24 (in line with market standards and regulatory requirements).
• Ensures accurate client classification, withholding determination, reporting and auditability across securities, corporate actions, cash, FX and Derivatives/Structured Products, working closely with Tax, Compliance, Operations and Finance teams.
• Supports configurations of event-driven determination for FATCA/US WHT (US Withholding & Reporting) – Client Classification (US/Non-US, Chapter3 / 4 status), Withholding on US-Source Income (W8 and W9 indicators) and IRS Reporting (1042 / 1042-S data support).
• Analysis of FATCA/US WHT impact on Mandatory (Dividends, Coupons, Redemptions) and Voluntary Corporate Actions (Dividend Options, Dividend Reinvestment Plan, etc.) Events and ensure correct handling of Income Segregation and Withholding at Source vs Intermediary Level.
• Supports compliance with CRS (OECD Common Reporting Standard) – Tax residency identification, Controlling person classification and Annual Regulatory Reporting and Data Quality Controls.
• Supports compliance with QI (Qualified Intermediary) – Beneficial Owner Identification (QI status and beneficial owner tags), Treaty eligibility and documentation validation and Gross vs. Net Income Processing and Reclaims.
• Ensure correct propagation of client tax attributes across Securities Trading, Corporate Actions, Cash and Accounting Services.
• Support configurations of Client Classifications, Instrument Source of Income and Treaty Rates and Exemptions.
• Coordination of testing of tax-driven Tax Re-calculation.
• Support integration with External Regulatory Reporting Platforms, Compliance and Data Warehouses.
• Support regulatory change implementation.
• Collaborate with Temenos and/or integrator for the implementation project and enable our Client internal team to acquire knowledge and deep expertise on Temenos Transact product.
• Drive the definition of use cases for Integration tests with testing team and for User Acceptance Test with end users
• Manage all the decision-making and analysis process allowing designing, validating the solution, and getting the necessary approvals in terms of architecture, IT risk and IT Security, budget and capacity planning.
• Coordinate the implementation from a project management perspective and ensure the WMIS Project governance is applied at each step
• Bring benefits to both the IT tools functionality and potential changes to operational processes affected.
• Ensure that every new solution implemented respects WMIS standards and allows for mutualization / reuse as much as possible between sites.
• Ensure all requirements are approached from a global perspective for all sites. Specific solution should only be considered to address regulatory, tax or accounting specific requirements

The Senior Business Analyst will be the privileged contact for user representatives during the analysis and project phases, and will be responsible for all standard business analysis tasks such as:

• Preliminary studies and analysis (including leading user workshops)
• Cost estimation and planning elaboration and follow-up
• Organize and run dedicated meetings or committees, as required
• Identify and report on project risks, attention points and issues to follow-up
• Requirements and general functional specifications (GFS): Coordination of workshops, minutes, writing GFS, Review and validation with Sponsors, Presentation and support to Dev Team, etc.
• Coordinate with all teams, from same division or other divisions, working on the same project
• Plan the migration strategy and change management activities related to these new projects
• Coordinate, supervise and contribute to Users Acceptance Tests (UAT) related to new implementations and support user sign-offs.
• Ensure the good relationship with business sponsors and stakeholders on each location
• Support production deployment activities, data migration and user training.

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