Senior Project Manager - Financial Services

Job Purpose :

- The role is responsible for the identification, engagement, design, and delivery of strategic transformation programs across multiple business units.

- The role will involve handling major/transformational Projects under Run the company and Change the company categories.

- Help build a culture of innovation, transformation & technology adoptions.

Key Responsibilities :

Team :

Responsibilities :

- Work with BEX and extended BEX / change agents across CMA and business units.

- Help create change acceptance across stakeholder groups.

Functional Responsibilities :

- Collate project updates from project leaders and process owners

- Help each project team to adopt the required project management standard documentations/templates

- Arrange & track project life cycle tollgate review meetings with steering groups

- Ensure timely preparation & distribution of project dashboards to leadership teams

- Own and maintain consolidated Program governance report for all BEX projects.

- Maintain a high-level understanding of the scope & objective for each project in the change portfolio

- Partner & consult each project team on change execution & project management.

- Timely escalation of project risk/issues/challenge/delays.

- Maintain strong stakeholder relationships with the business, Ops & corporate functions.

- Consult and partner cost-benefit analysis effort for every project.

Job Requirements :

Qualifications & Experience :

- Graduate; Engineer preferred;

- Postgraduate in Finance or MBA preferred;

- 9 to 15 years

Functional Competencies & Professional experience :

- Minimum 5+ year of experience in managing sizeable projects

- 5+ years of exposure in the financial services industry

- Experience in financial services operations & business

- Project management Or Six Sigma certification preferred

- High commercial awareness required

- Proven track record of transformation, Innovation & problem solving

- Experience in managing vendors/solution partners

- Senior reference checks to be shared by previous employers

- Experience in technology/solution deployments

Behavioral Competencies :

- Excellent written & verbal communication skills

- Team player and leadership qualities

- People Management skills

- Very strong interpersonal skills

Key Interactions :

Internal: Nature or purpose of interaction :

Compliance: To understand/reconfirm knowledge on regulations

GRG: To understand/reconfirm knowledge on financial risk

Ops risk: To understand/reconfirm knowledge on ops risk

External: Nature or purpose of interaction

Vendors/Solution partners:

- Hosting visitors/solution partners

- Understand offerings, understand requirements, understand commercials;