Job Description

About Front Office (FO) Programme / Overview

• The FO programme is responsible to transform/enhance the investment review & approval for the firm.
• Temasek uses Microsoft CRM to automate the review/approval workflow amongst different due diligence teams for its investment pipeline.
• As part of the technology strategy, the adoption of other leading solutions in the market such Salesforce etc. have been considered but yet to be confirmed.
• Candidates with MS CRM and/or Salesforce implementation in the investment world will be preferred
• Looking for experienced individuals who are able to handle multiple tech vendors, stakeholders and users.
• Over and beyond understanding and aligning business requirements/design, must be able to solve issues from tech and business end. Being resourceful and ability to think out-of-box and quick to respond promptly to address issues.
• Delivery/PM focuses beyond just strong in PMO / processes.
• Good understanding of project management terminologies (e.g. Waterfall / Agile
• Good attitude with professional ethics.

• Acting as a liaison between business and tech delivery teams
• Drive solutions and issue resolutions, for escalated issues from vendors as well as those requiring internal discussions
• Identifying on improvement opportunities and assess business requirements against alignment to current architecture
• Understand current solutions, delivery methodology, drive quality implementation, review SaaS providers service levels and pursue addressing of gaps
• Evaluating the performance of project teams to ensure that targets and deadlines are met
• Identifying and addressing operational, financial and technological risks within the business
• Involved in identifying, shortlisting and selection of solutions and design working jointly with the delivery parties and the Enterprise Architecture team
• Communicating ideas and viewpoints to senior management and review and provide status for internal updates

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, various engineering or equivalent field
• 8 to 10 years\' experience as an IT Project Director/Manager for medium to large and complex projects, managing work delivered through multiple third parties delivery team, design and building custom solutions and integrating with package, SaaS or enterprise solutions, preferably in the asset management/banking/finance industry
• Experienced in instilling rigour, methodical practices and developing an effective team to learn, design, build own and run the solution
• Includes hands-on experience of solution implementation through confirmation of requirements of definition with business users, elaboration through detailed functional and technical designs, data migration, planning and performing functional and non-functional testing, as well as seeing through deployment of solutions into live production
• Familiarity with incremental changes and production support demand process
• Ability to work within an international team and provide clear leadership and direction to its members, including integrating with and providing oversight of development deliverables owned by 3rd party resources
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills; ability to project manage and work with cross-functional teams, different stakeholders

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