Project Manager - Digital Banking Sector

Summary role description:

Hiring for a Project Manager - Digital Banking for a leading digital banking service provider.

Company description:

Our client is a Singapore Headquartered leading digital banking solutions provider, with a strong track record in designing, developing, and deploying digital solutions for leading banks across Asia, the Middle East and Africa. They partner with our clients in their digital transformation journey, delivering best-in-class UX and innovative new services built on a secure, scalable digital platform. Our client is the currently the partner of choice for several top banks for their digital banking needs. Our client provides cloud native, SaaS-deployable digital solutions enable banks to efficiently process $100B+ in transactions annually and significantly grow their online customer bases by offering award-winning, secure, and personalized UX.

Role details:

- Title / Designation: Project Manager

- Reporting Manager: Delivery Lead

- Location: Chennai

- Work Mode: Hybrid (3 days office; 2 days work-from-home)

Role & responsibilities:

- Engage with key stakeholders to identify project objectives and key products to be delivered.

- Develop project specifications, agree project plan baseline including scope, key activities, deliverables, resource requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

- Utilise project plans and schedules to monitor all activities.

- Manage relationships amongst stakeholders by building confidence and trust with clear professional communications and assured expectation management.

- Ensure team members are informed, have clear goals, and work collaboratively and in partnership with clients and other stakeholders to achieve planned outcomes.

- Drive project execution; track delivery; expect, monitor and control change, own change management; pro-actively seek and resolve blockers.

- Record information accurately and consistently using appropriate systems and provide and communicate timely information to relevant parties.

- Seek stakeholder insight and feed it into improved processes while ensuring compliance with governance and standards.

- Manage projects within agreed governance structures and processes, to ensure consistency of approach and efficient use of resources.

- Conduct progress reviews to give stakeholders confidence that projects will deliver to time, budget and agreed standards.

- Conduct reviews to assess project outcomes and to identify and capture lessons learned to enable continuous improvement.

- Contribute to the provision of documentation for new or improved processes, products and services and to ensure that good practice is disseminated throughout the organisation.

Candidate requirements:

- 12+ years of experience with 6 to 8 years of successful program/project management experience delivering software web-based solutions to Digital Banking/FSI sector.

- Must have excellent problem solving, presentation and leadership skills and the ability to comprehend, analyze and communicate both macro and low-level pictures to all levels of the organization, including senior management.

- Requires excellent analytical ability, facilitation and communication skills, plus strong judgment, and decision-making abilities.

- PMP certification & Scrum Certification are a plus.

Selection process:

- Discussion with Project Manager

- Discussion with Delivery Lead

- Discussion with CTO

- Discussion with CEO