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, we operate 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 security 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 enhancements meet business, risk, and compliance requirements in a complex regulatory environment.
- Support of scalable, efficient operations that position 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 Planning & Coordination
- Maintain detailed project plans, timelines, and milestones for middle office deliverables, aligned with overall project plans.
- Coordinate with BA team to ensure tasks are clearly assigned, tracked, and completed on schedule.
- Attend workshops and meetings with Regional, Country Risk, and the team.
Status Monitoring & Reporting
- -Collect updates from the BA team and consolidate progress reports.
- Track action items, issues, and dependencies related to middle office deliverables.
- Prepare regular status reports and dashboards, as required, for the Regional Risk team and other stakeholders.
Risk & Issue Management
- Identify, log, and track risks and issues for the middle office function.
- Proactively follow up on mitigation plans and escalate critical risks or roadblocks for resolution.
Stakeholder Communication & Documentation
- Serve as a liaison for operational communications between Regional & Country Risk, the BA team, and the project management team.
- Ensure all key decisions, meeting minutes, and action items are documented and distributed.
- Maintain a repository of project documentation relevant to the middle office.
Change & Scope Management
- Track any changes in requirements or scope for middle office deliverables.
- Ensure change requests are formally documented, assessed for impact, and communicated to all relevant parties.
Quality Assurance & Compliance
- Monitor deliverables to ensure they meet defined quality standards and requirements.
- Coordinate reviews and sign-offs with Regional and relevant Risk heads.
Mandatory Skills Description:
- Overall 10+ years of experience in Financial Markets Projects implementations
- Strong Understanding of market risk processes
- 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
