Position Reports to:
Group Legal Regulatory Compliance (GLRC) Cluster Lead, Project Office
Position Description:
- Hold overall responsibility and accountability for IT project management in areas related to Group Legal & Regulatory Compliance
- Work in partnership with the stakeholders to deliver projects to agreed scope, schedule, budget and quality.
Principal Role:
- Prepare project feasibility studies, cost-benefit analysis and proposals and obtain required approvals from appropriate IT management and project sponsors
- Establish project plans, resources, budgets and time-frames, and assign tasks
- Identify, track and communicate project progress, milestones, deliverables changes and dependencies within the schedule, costs, issues and risks
- Manage team’s performance of project tasks, provide technical advice and guidance, schedule assignments and training for development, prepare performance appraisals
- Coordinate project activities across multiple development, product management, user experience and QA teams in a matrix organisation
- Secure acceptance and approval of deliverables or revisions to the project from the project sponsor and stakeholders
- Manage vendor relationship and deliverables
- Evaluate and recommend purchases of software packages, hardware and service vendors where appropriate
- Ensure work deliverables are in compliance with bank policies and regulatory requirements.
- Plan for and oversee preparation of documentation of each project phase (business requirements, functional specification, project plan, test strategy, test plan, etc), training and support in new/modified applications.
Domain Knowledge:
- Knowledge in Banking or Financial Institution Domain is essential
- Experience in Legal, Regulatory and Compliance Technology projects and solution will be an added advantage
- Understanding of technical aspects of system integration in a mix technology environment.
Qualifications/Experience
- Tertiary education required
- 5-10 years in project management in IT in financial institution delivering projects exceeding S$2 mil
- Certification or formal training in project management is an advantage
- Self starting with excellent leadership and team building skills
- Ability to resolve complex problems creatively