About Us:
Leading the way in financial IT service market in Korea, we now seek to expand our expertise to the APAC. With LG CNS Singapore, you will embark on a journey to deliver cutting-edge IT technologies to APAC clients, which have been proven successful in Korea and become an industry-leading Digital Transformation expert.
We are looking for a proactive and skilled Senior Consultant to join our team in delivering a high-impact Core Banking Transformation project. This initiative aims to replace legacy systems with modern, scalable solutions for trade, lending, CASA, and payments. The ideal candidate will bring consulting expertise, with proven to have strong documentation and presentation skills in development projects. This role offers a great opportunity to be involved in a large-scale transformation and will require strong leadership, consulting and project management skills.
Key Responsibilities
1. Project Leadership & Planning:
- Develop and maintain the integrated project roadmap, ensuring alignment with the overarching core banking transformation strategy.
- Drive the planning, work breakdown, and scheduling of multiple sub-streams, including platform builds and data source onboarding.
- Work with business and IT leadership to define project scopes, secure budget approvals, and establish success criteria.
- Lead end-to-end project management for major project such as ISO20022, and operational support for TBCS, ADE, ensuring alignment local regulatory and head office HOP standards.
2. Project Execution & Delivery:
- Implement a robust project management framework to track schedules, timelines, and progress using tools like JIRA or MS Project.
- Organize regular check-ins with internal and vendor teams to monitor and support project progress.
- Ensure successful project delivery on time, within budget, and to agreed-upon quality standards by overseeing project teams.
3. Governance, Risk, & Compliance:
- Ensure compliance to governance and risk framesworks.
- Maintain and update the RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) log, proactively identifying and mitigating risks.
- Manage the end-to-end SDLC process, from initiation to closure, ensuring all stages are completed successfully.
4. Stakeholder Management & Communication:
- Maintain regular communication with key stakeholders, ensuring transparency and alignment.
- Prepare and present status reports, executive summaries, and project dashboards to various audiences, ranging from technical teams to senior leadership.
Key Deliverables
The Senior Consultant will be accountable for the following:
- Process Compliance: Comply to the compliance process, ensuring compliance from initiation to closure.
- Resource & Financial Management: Oversee financials of accurate budget tracking and forecasting for initiatives.
- Comprehensive Status Reporting & Project Dashboards: Regular, transparent, and data-driven reporting on IT initiatives, including progress against plan, budget variance, resource utilization, and risk status.
Qualifications & Experience
Required:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or related fields.
- 5-10+ years of experience in technology project management, specifically managing large-scale, multi-year projects.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in Banking and Financial Services, with a strong focus on data management.
- Proven experience managing large-scale data projects (e.g., ISO20022, and operational support for TBCS, ADE).
- Working knowledge of SDLC and project management methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Hybrid).
- Experience managing projects budgets exceeding $10M.
- Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels.
- Detail-oriented with a focus on delivery and a proactive approach to problem-solving.
- Ability to thrive in fast-paced, dynamic environments and manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
- A collaborative mindset with an aptitude for team coordination across cross-functional groups.
Desired/Preferred:
- Direct experience with core banking system transformations.
- Familiarity with data governance frameworks and principles.
- PMP or other relevant project management certifications.
- Business-level proficiency in Japanese is preferred.
