Senior Murex Project Manager

Project details
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 bank 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.

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

Requirements
- Overall 15+ years of experience in Murex implementations

- At least 6+ years of experience in Murex Project Management & Program Management

- Strong Understanding of Murex Architecture & ability to comprehend end to end processes

- Subject Matter Expert in at least one Murex Module (MxML & Back Office Workflows, Datamart Reporting or Front Office)

- 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

- Experience on handling at least 1 murex upgrade project,

- Project management tools exposure (Jira etc.) & scrum certification