Strategic IT Delivery Lead

UNITED OVERSEAS BANK LIMITED; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

UNITED OVERSEAS BANK LIMITED is seeking an IT project manager to lead complex banking initiatives and ensure successful delivery through full project lifecycles.

You will manage planning, vendor relationships, resources, budgets, risks and issues, while delivering executive-level communications across leadership and stakeholders. Strong communication, organization, and multi-tasking skills are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in relevant field or equivalent work experience.
• Proven IT project management experience in banking environment.
• PMP/PRINCE II certification is a plus.
• Murex knowledge is a plus.
• Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage all aspects of project and change request engagement from planning, external vendor relationships, communications, resources, budget, change, risks and issues.
• Continually manage project and change request expectations while delegating and managing deliverables with team members and stakeholders.
• Determine the frequency and content of status reports from the project and change request team, analyse results and troubleshoot problem areas.
• Deliver appropriate and effective executive level communication.
• Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating across leadership and business stakeholders.
• Full project life cycle ownership to ensure successful project delivery.
• Manage all aspects of the projects to ensure the overall program is aligned to and directly supports the achievement of strategic objectives.
• Prepare detailed project plan for all phases of the project.
• Ensure assignment of adequate resources to achieve project objectives in planned timeframes.
• Manage the day-to-day project activities and resources and chairs the project management team meetings.
• Understand interdependencies between technology, operations and business needs.
• Manage project scope and changes.
• Act as an internal quality control check for the project.
• Manage ongoing quality control and participate in quality issue resolution.
• Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel.
• Monitor, track and control outcomes to resolve issues, conflicts, dependencies and critical path deliverables.
• Ensure that projects and change requests are proceeding according to scope, schedule, budget and quality standards.
• Manage project and change request issues and risks to mitigate impact to baseline.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Project coordination

Risk & issue management

Quality control

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Murex

PMP

PRINCE II

Job description

UNITED OVERSEAS BANK LIMITED is seeking an IT project manager to lead complex banking initiatives and ensure successful delivery through full project lifecycles.

You will manage planning, vendor relationships, resources, budgets, risks and issues, while delivering executive-level communications across leadership and stakeholders. Strong communication, organization, and multi-tasking skills are required.