The Program Manager is accountable for ensuring that solutions designed for the project fit with the principles and are validated by the relevant validation bodies:
- Overall sound IT architecture
- Operational TOM with clear mandate for each team
- Strong control framework
- Simple and efficient working
- Future evolution of the regulatory framework or anticipated business transformation
He/She will be in charge of the following activities:
Preliminary step: project framing
- Clarify the objective, the scope, the dependencies, the major risks & issues
- Confirm the sponsorship
- Ensure a clear business rationale is associated to the contemplated project (incl. high level ROI), identify benefits
- Size roughly the effort required to design the solution & execute the project
- Identify contributors to be on-boarded for the study
Study / Design phase:
- Clearly state the business requirements, cost and time-frame of the project
- Coordinate & challenge experts to put together a solution meeting the business requirements
- Identify risk and dependencies that could jeopardize project execution
- Establish the full financial of the project (cost, associated revenues or savings)
- Design the project governance (roles & responsibilities, governance bodies, stakeholders’ identification)
- Design project roadmap (i.e. the overall execution plan)
- Secure the resource plan (skills, capacity) and prioritization / funding for those resources
Execution phase:
- Drive the execution of the roadmap
- Ensure aligned project status/progress is shared amongst the project community
- Identify risk & issues and propose a mitigation action plan
- Raise alerts / escalate issues / review the roadmap if required
- Monitor the budget consumption
- Monitor the feedback from contributors on project management and adjust when required
- Prepare and chair governance bodies, produce adequate reporting, communicate
Completion phase:
- Collect feedback from project participants
- Identify good practices/factors of success and fields of improvement
- Update project management toolkit with lessons learntrchitecture
Job Requirements:
We are looking for a Program Manager with Global Banking business-focused end-to-end Projects & Change management experiences in the financial services or consulting environment (non-IT):
- 15 to 20 years of experience at least
- Good In-depth knowledge of Front Office to Finance processing chains with a focus on Operations
- Good technical understanding of Global Banking products and CIB Functions
- Ability to interact appropriately in a non-hierarchical framework with a variety of stakeholders including SME from Operations or IT, business and senior management
- Comfortable operating with a strong level of autonomy and/or under pressure
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Ability to think outside the box and to deal with novelty
- Strong written/verbal communication and reporting skills
- Strong team working and interpersonal skills
- Organized and delivery-focused, with attention to detail
- Proactive, proposing or taking own initiatives to prevent risks / issues
- Solid work ethic and high level of motivation
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (MS Word, Excel & Power point)
Interested applicants, please email to: [email protected]
Ivy Tham Yi Ru (R1104692)
Recruit Express Pte Ltd | EA No. 99C4599
