Project Description: Client is leading global financial institution with a strong presence in Asia, Americas, Europe, and the Middle East. In the Asia-Pacific region, the Client operates key hubs in Singapore and Hong Kong, providing comprehensive financial services across corporate banking, markets, treasury, and risk management.

Client is committed to leveraging advanced technology platforms to deliver innovative solutions, enhance operational efficiency, and maintain robust risk governance. As part of this commitment, the Group invests in industry-leading systems such as Murex to support end-to-end trade processing, risk analytics, and regulatory compliance across multiple asset classes.

Client has embarked on strategic initiative to consolidate it's Banking and Investment Banking arm into one. Towards that end it is hiring project manager to drive this consolidation exercise leading to:

-Accelerated delivery of strategic platform programs, minimizing risk and downtime.
-Improved cross-team collaboration and decision-making across geographies and functions.
-Ensure Murex enhancements meet business, risk, and compliance requirements in a complex regulatory environment.
-Support of scalable, efficient operations that position the Client for future growth.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for end-to-end coordination, governance, and delivery oversight of middle-office initiatives, ensuring alignment with regional risk priorities, quality standards, and stakeholder expectations.

Project Plan & Framework
➢Ensure that the project framework, process and controls are followed and aligned with SEIBI program
➢Validate the WBS from Markets, CASA, DATA and prepare the consolidated WBS at release level
➢Ensure to get the updated WBS from Markets, CASA & DATA and update the same in consolidated WBS

Planning & Coordination
➢Harmonize inter-dependencies across Markets, CASA & DATA
➢Regular meeting with APCF PM & Markets/CASA/DATA SI PM and stakeholders
➢Heads up to stakeholders on the upcoming activitie

Cost and Timeline management
➢Monitor the cost usage (against AFA) across Markets, CASA & DATA
➢Ensure that there is no impact to release level timeline and flag the potential delay and produce mitigation plan

Stakeholder engagement & Status reporting
➢Engage release level stakeholders for the release
➢Consolidate individual project status report and update the wider audience
➢Prepare RAG status report at release level
➢Maintain communication matrix for Release level

Governance meeting and Facilitation
➢Preparing the slides for SEIBI PSC and send to SEIBI PMO team
➢Attend SEIBI PMO meeting
➢Organize ad-hoc meetings on need basis
➢Present release level changes in CCB and get it approved
➢Ensure release level items are approved in RDA wherever needed

Deliverables & Signoff
➢Preparing the slides for SEIBI PSC and send to SEIBI PMO team
➢Attend SEIBI PMO meeting
➢Organize ad-hoc meetings on need basis
➢Present release level changes in CCB and get it approved
➢Ensure release level items are approved in RDA wherever needed

Risk/Issue management
➢Assess the impact of Markets/CASA/DATA risk to overall release
➢Maintain Release level Risk register (Collate Project level Risk register)
➢Assess if there are any interstream dependencies arise due to individual project risk
➢Manage cross stream project risk like the operational risk, tech risk and report to the steering committee

Mandatory Skills Description:

- Overall 20+ years of experience in Banking Projects implementations
- At least 10+ years of experience in Project Management & Program Management
- Strong Understanding of building the Data Layer for the reporting.
- Subject Matter Expert in CASA and DATA
- Understand the Tri party dependencies and manages risks and issues effectively.
- Excellent leadership and management skills
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Project management tools exposure (Jira etc.) & scrum certification

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

- Project Management Certification (PMP) or Agile Certification
- Experience with Murex

Project Manager - Markets, CASA & DATA