Job Description

FVP, Global Market Trading and Risk, Applications Support, Group Infrastructure and Platform Service

Posting Date: 5 Oct 2023

Location:
Singapore (City Area), Singapore, 048624

Company: United Overseas Bank Ltd

About UOB

United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading bank in Asia with a global network of more than 500 branches and offices in 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. In Asia, we operate through our head office in Singapore and banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as branches and offices. Our history spans more than 80 years. Over this time, we have been guided by our values - Honorable, Enterprising, United and Committed. This means we always strive to do what is right, build for the future, work as one team and pursue long-term success. It is how we work, consistently, be it towards the company, our colleagues or our customers.

About the Department

Group Technology and Operations (GTO) provides software and system development, information technology support services and banking operations.

We have centralized and standardized the technology components into Singapore, creating a global footprint which can be utilized for supporting our regional subsidiaries and the branches around the world. We operate and support 19 countries with this architecture to provide a secure and flexible banking infrastructure.

Our Operations divisions provide transactional customer services for our businesses while also focusing on cost efficiency through process improvements, automation and straight through processing.

Job Responsibilities

• Good understanding of Trading, Market Data and Risk concepts
• Self-motivated Global Markets management professional with an interest in delivering strategic change solutions to enable effective solutions around traded risk management
• Strong technical knowledge specially in Murex and other Trading applications
• Good business domain knowledge of banking & trading book
• Highly effective and proficient communicator with technical stakeholders and non-technical stakeholders.
• Good problem solving, analytical, synthesis, system thinking and solutioning skills
• Good understanding of Incident and problem management
• Experience in automation tools, Ability to identify, monitor and manage project risks, issues and dependencies, and agree appropriate solutions with sponsors and key stakeholders
• Strong influencing skills to achieve alignment up and down the organization
• Experience in implementing large-scale, highly available applications production support
• Proven result-oriented person with a focus on delivery
• Good understanding and experience in software development cycle
• Participate in Disaster Recovery, Capacity management and Business continuity planning and budget management and Tech refresh infrastructure related upgrade

Stakeholder Management

• Manage business stakeholders, e.g., escalation, expectation, conflict, scope changes, etc.
• Manage relationships with stakeholders
• Ensure teams work in a collaborative environment

Scope Management

• Manage all changes quality to maintain production stability
• Review and assess changes and impact
• Ensure all changes are approved stakeholders

Governance and Budget Management

• Prepare memo and manage approval of budget from CAPEX/OPEX committee
• Facilitate contract renewal with external vendor
• Budget and invoice tracking

Risk and Issue Management

• Anticipate, capture and manage overall support-level risks and issues
• Track risk of aging issues
• Own and drive resolution and escalate risks and issues in a timely manner

Process Adherence

• Partner with stakeholders in ensuring SDM is followed
• Major incident weekly reporting
• Measure, monitor and report progress to stakeholders

Job Requirements

• Degree in computer science/engineering or related disciplines.
• 15 - 20 years of hands on application support experience in the banking industry
• Experience working with MUREX or other treasury applications
• Experience in Market Data, Balance Sheet Risk & VaR
• Understanding of the model assignments, Market data, Rate curves etc.
• Experience in working technical platforms or programming languages - Unix, Oracle, Sybase, C++, and Scripting, EOD batch and control M schedulers

Experience

• Significant experience in managing large Programme in a banking environment
• Complete understanding of support life cycle and Technology development models
• Strong quantitative, analytical, problem solving and process design skills that can translate analysis into actions that meet business objectives
• Understanding of technology and operational processes across functions / departments in the bank/market.
• Experience in scoping and evaluation - Defining overall considerations, including scalability, maintainability, cost, operations and technology principal risk to provide a recommendation
• SME/Business banking domain experience would be added advantage

Competencies

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Manage divergent agendas and divergent stakeholders with win-win solution
• Manage organizational ambiguity and differing stakeholder views
• Strategic forward thinking approach to challenges with outstanding influencing, negotiating and persuasion skills
• Passionate, diligent individual with ability to thrive in ambiguity
• Resourceful team player
• Understands and articulates the business strategy and vision and is able to mobilize formal and informal networks to achieve business growth in a sustainable manner
• Decision maker and influencer with strong relationships across the organization embracing the strength in diversity
• Facilitates and drives strategy / processes to achieve transformational change and sustainable solutions
• Builds bench strength and focuses on succession planning of employees for future roles and challenges

Education

• Bachelor\'s / Master\'s degree in engineering/ business/ finance or equivalent
• PMP certified

Be a part of UOB Family

UOB is an equal opportunity employer. UOB does not discriminate on the basis of a candidate\'s age, race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or other non-merit factors. All employment decisions at UOB are based on business needs, job requirements and qualifications. If you require any assistance or accommodations to be made for the recruitment process, please inform us when you submit your online application.

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