Job Description

Position Description:

• Hold overall responsibility and accountability for IT project management in areas related to Group Operations
• Work in partnership with the stakeholders to deliver projects to agreed scope, schedule, budget and quality.

• Prepare project feasibility studies, cost-benefit analysis and proposals and obtain required approvals from appropriate IT management and project sponsors
• Evaluate and recommend purchases of software packages, hardware and service vendors where appropriate
• Establish project plans, resources, budget, timeframes, and assign tasks
• Identify, track and communicate project progress, milestones, deliverables changes and dependencies within the schedule, costs, issues and risks
• Coordinate project activities across multiple development, product management, user experience and QA teams in a matrix organization
• Secure acceptance and approval of deliverables or revisions to the project from the project sponsor and stakeholders
• Communicate project status and progress regularly and timely to project sponsor and stakeholders
• 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.
• Ensure work deliverables are following bank policies and regulatory requirements
• Manage vendor relationship and deliverables for solutions supplied by vendor
• Manage internal development team\xe2\x80\x99s performance of project tasks and provide constant feedback on developers performance for high performance standard

• Knowledge in Banking or Financial Institution Domain is essential
• Experience in Banking Operations projects and solution will be an added advantage, example, Annual Swift Releases, automated workflow on customer account maintenance, loan/credit administration, payment processing validations, various fulfilment processing at major core banking and payment functions.
• Understanding of technical aspects of system integration in a mix technology environment.

• Tertiary education required
• Above 10 years\xe2\x80\x99 experience in project management in IT in financial institution delivering projects exceeding S$5 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

OCBC Bank