Job Responsibilities:
- Gain a strong understanding and keep abreast of Business requirements
- Lead a team providing operational readiness support for technology changes to business and operation users
- Work closely with the Operations and Business teams on developing solutions, defining target operating model, and prioritizing changes for implementation
- Recommend effective solution options that meet Operations/ Business expectations
- Manage and lead governance/ working forums with stakeholders to provide operational readiness update on projects status, risks and issues
- Define areas of High Risk in collaboration with Operations
- Define areas of High Business Values in collaboration with Business
- Assign risk weightage to requirements
- Tailor the testing strategy for the project to align to changing delivery paradigms
- Act as an escalation point whenever a risk to meeting project timelines due to operational readiness activities is raised and provide support for risk/ issue resolution
- Deliver projects to agreed budget, timeline and functionality from inception through to post implementation review
- Ensure smooth cutover for Operations, Business and other key stakeholders
- Review and submit management reports
- Lead human resource planning, development, and staff management
- Identify potential modules for automation
- Prioritize Test Case design and execution in TOSCA
- Learn and master TOSCA tool which is a software testing tool used at UOB to design test cases and automate end to end testing
Job Requirements:
- Bachelor’s/ Master’s degree
- Operations experience is a must (Loans operations preferred)
- Experience in regulatory reporting projects (e.g. Basel, Top Borrowers Group Survey) are added advantage.
- Experience in managing medium sized team (10 to 20 people)
- Minimum 15 years working experience, preferably in Banking industry performing Systems/Business Analysis/Operations role.
- Experience in end-to End Core Banking operations, system support; Treasury and/or Finance.
- Able to take ownership of issues and take them to closure
- Able to create effective work relationships across different levels of stakeholders from various disciplines
- Detail and results-oriented and able to work independently within strict timeframes
- Mature individual with strong leadership, influencing and problem resolution skills
- Strong verbal and written communications skills, including effective presentation skills
- Other relevant skills: Project/Change Management, Agile, understanding of SDLC
