IT Project Manager (Japanese Speaking)

Responsibilities

• Run project from initiation to closure, ensuring deliverables meet business requirements and quality standards
• Develop and track project plans, schedules, and resource allocation
• Ensure successful delivery of projects, ensuring they are completed on time, meeting requirements and within allocated budget
• Prepare Steering Committee materials and review minutes of the meeting
• Follow up on actions and comments from Steco to ensure they are timely acted upon to closure
• Ensure adherence to delivery methodologies, governance, and control processes
• Monitor progress, manage risks and issues, and implement mitigation strategies
• Work with the Project Manager (bank's side) on the overall project plan from the platform, infra team and system delivery & release perspective
• Ensure that the list of deliverables are defined and understood within the various system delivery
• Provide timely update to the Bank's PM on the system delivery progress status, risk, issues and escalation
• Analyse and highlight project risks and develop necessary risk mitigation plans
• Analyse and highlight project dependencies to pre-empt project issues
• Maintain project issue register to keep close match of the project issues till their resolution
• Collaborate with Bank's IT Project Manager, SMBC and JRI HO PICs, APAC IT and JRIS PICs and HO project team and vendors to ensure alignment on project scope and timelines
• Provide detailed project insights, timely status reporting and escalate issues when necessary
• Facilitate effective communication and foster a culture of collaboration, transparency, and accountability, ensuring strong cross functional teamwork and alignment to project goals and objectives
• Support other project related tasks that may be assigned from Bank Project PM, in line with the resource skills

Requirements

• Proficiency in Japanese Speaking Mandatory as this role requires to liaise with Japanese counter parts.
• Experience in managing projects from initiation to closure, ensuring deliverables meet business requirements.
• Experience in project management, programme management, and client engagement, with a proven track record of successfully delivering projects and managing stakeholder relationships.