Senior Vice President - Program Lead, LCS Platform, Legal & Compliance

DBS; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Singapore is looking for a Senior Vice President - Program Lead to oversee financial crime program initiatives and manage project executions. The ideal candidate should have a minimum of 10 years' experience in project management, particularly within the financial services sector. Strong communication and analytical skills are necessary, along with a proven ability to implement agile methodologies. The role involves collaborating with multiple teams and ensuring program delivery aligns with business outcomes.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Health benefits

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years’ work experience in project management.
• Expertise in Agile methodology.
• Experience in financial services preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver financial crime program initiatives.
• Manage program roadmap and business case.
• Drive program execution and delivery.

Skills

Excellent communication

Analytical skills

Agile project management

Relationship-building

Organizational skills

Education

Project Management certification

Business Analyst certification

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Octane

Job description

Job Description - Senior Vice President - Program Lead, LCS Platform, Legal & Compliance (WD80852)

Job Description

Senior Vice President - Program Lead, LCS Platform, Legal & Compliance - ( WD80852 )

Key Accountabilities

• Define and deliver financial crime program initiatives and achieve business outcomes across multiple Compliance domain areas as per established timeline
• Develop business cases and manage program financials within approved budget
• Work with stakeholders to understand and develop business requirements and lead the end-to-end implementation of solutions
• Prioritize program backlogs/requests by balancing regulatory, audit and business priorities, squad capacity, to ensure all committed timelines will be met
• Identify and mitigate risks and resolve issues arising from program execution using agile way of working
• Effectively collaborate with cross-functional, cross-geography stakeholders, including regulators/auditors, and accurately communicate program progress and challenges

Responsibilities

• Manage program and product roadmap, business case, and user requirements across multiple solutions and domain areas, including but not limited to, surveillance, analytics and regulatory reporting
• Collaborate with business users to define user journeys and associated business processes
• Conduct gap analysis between business requirements (including regulatory expectations) vis-a-vis solution landscape and platform strategy
• Document detailed business requirements/epics/user stories by liaising with business users/business analysts including the acceptance criteria
• Define program roadmap and prioritize program backlogs/requests by balancing regulatory, audit and business priorities, and squad capacity to ensure all committed timelines will be met
• Evaluate solutions proposed by technology or analytics team/vendors for specific epics /user stories to ensure best practices are followed
• Build business case and project recommendations as appropriate, to draw down the budget and set up financial tracking
• Conduct market research and analyse trends including RFP/setting up proof of concepts to ensure the product vision/roadmap is aligned with industry developments and the bank’s future needs
• Manage key stakeholders, including regulators/auditors, and business and technology leads
• Manage and communicate effectively with domain leads at senior level and working level teams in a timely and clear manner
• Responsible for ensuring project steering committee meetings, platform governance, cross functional, and other periodic project meetings are effective and achieve objectives in a consistent manner
• Drive program execution and delivery
• Monitor and ensure that program/project execute flawlessly, on schedule, and without compromising quality
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks within the program
• Resolve issues and conflicts within the program, projects and project management community and with other stakeholders, if necessary
• Ensure resolution of issues at program or line level and elevate issues which cannot be resolved in a timely and accurate manner
• Have oversight of major production issues or remediation or resolution of data gaps within the scope of program
• Manage coordination across teams and other platforms by keeping transparency in the A/B /C type of work so that delivery can effectively be managed, including critical areas:
• Ensure project dependencies on other projects /platforms are on their roadmaps and resources will be available when your teams need them
• Ensure work other teams need from your team/s are included and prioritised appropriately in your teams work backlog
• Highlight capability gaps to respective team/tribe/ function leads
• Oversee User Acceptance Tests and Implementation
• Manage user acceptance tests, including execution of test cases as necessary, develop rollout plan and oversee implementation/live-verification activities
• Conduct end user training where necessary
• Ensure smooth rollout of projects, complete pre and post-implementation activities in close coordination with scrum master
• Work closely with Technology/Operations/Business teams to resolve any implementation issues and any post-implementation stabilisation work
• Change management
• Adopt agile methodology across squads in the program and implement any DBS Platform Transformation milestones
• Ensure utilization of standards and practices across all projects
• Work with business and support unit users to drive changes to facilitate successful implementation and faster realization of benefits

Requirements

Non-technical Experience

• Excellent communication, presentation and organizational skills and can be relied upon to make prompt, data-driven and reliable decisions.
• Ability to multi-task with good analytical and planning skills to effectively manage changing and conflicting priorities.
• Demonstrate strong ownership of program/projects and assigned tasks with solid solution-oriented mindset.
• Ability to interface on a professional level with a variety of personalities at different levels and across geographies, leveraging solid relationship-building, conflict resolution and negotiation skills.
• Self-motivated with positive and can-do attitude, with the fortitude to be comfortable in ambiguous and complex situations.

Technical Experience

• Minimum 10 years’ working experience with proven track record of managing projects to meet stipulated timelines with expected outcomes and quality. Work in transformation programs and/or data analysis would be an asset.
• Solid experience in project management, especially in the application of Agile methodology.
• Strong background in business analysis and/or root cause analysis, ideally in the Financial Services industry.
• Working knowledge of Financial Crime domain and associated business processes, including related applications is an advantage.
• Excellent skills in Microsoft Office Productivity Suite, and project management tools (e.g. Jira, Confluence, Octane).
• Project Management (Agile) and/or Business Analyst certification is preferable.