Key Accountabilities
- Define and deliver financial crime program initiatives and achieve business outcomes across multiple Compliance domain areas as per established timeline
- Develop business cases and manage program financials within approved budget
- Work with stakeholders to understand and develop business requirements and lead the end-to-end implementation of solutions
- Prioritize program backlogs/requests by balancing regulatory, audit and business priorities, squad capacity, to ensure all committed timelines will be met
- Identify and mitigate risks and resolve issues arising from program execution using agile way of working
- Effectively collaborate with cross-functional, cross-geography stakeholders, including regulators/auditors, and accurately communicate program progress and challenges
Responsibilities
Manage program and product roadmap, business case, and user requirements across multiple solutions and domain areas, including but not limited to, surveillance, analytics and regulatory reportingCollaborate with business users to define user journeys and associated business processesConduct gap analysis between business requirements (including regulatory expectations) vis-a-vis solution landscape and platform strategyDocument detailed business requirements/epics/user stories by liaising with business users/business analysts including the acceptance criteriaDefine program roadmap and prioritize program backlogs/requests by balancing regulatory, audit and business priorities, and squad capacity to ensure all committed timelines will be metEvaluate solutions proposed by technology or analytics team/vendors for specific epics /user stories to ensure best practices are followedBuild business case and project recommendations as appropriate, to draw down the budget and set up financial trackingConduct market research and analyse trends including RFP/setting up proof of concepts to ensure the product vision/roadmap is aligned with industry developments and the bank's future needsManage key stakeholders, including regulators/auditors, and business and technology leadsManage and communicate effectively with domain leads at senior level and working level teams in a timely and clear mannerResponsible for ensuring project steering committee meetings, platform governance, cross functional, and other periodic project meetings are effective and achieve objectives in a consistent mannerDrive program execution and deliveryMonitor and ensure that program/project execute flawlessly, on schedule, and without compromising qualityProactively identify and mitigate risks within the programResolve issues and conflicts within the program, projects and project management community and with other stakeholders, if necessaryEnsure resolution of issues at program or line level and escalate issues which cannot be resolved in a timely and accurate mannerHave oversight of major production issues or remediation or resolution of data gaps within the scope of programManage coordination across teams and other platforms by keeping transparency in the A/B /C type of work so that delivery can effectively be managed, including critical areas:Ensure project dependencies on other projects /platforms are on their roadmaps and resources will be available when your teams need themEnsure work other teams need from your team/s are included and prioritised appropriately in your teams work backlogHighlight capability gaps to respective team/tribe/ function leadsOversee User Acceptance Tests and Implementation- Manage user acceptance tests, including execution of test cases as necessary, develop rollout plan and oversee implementation/live-verification activities
- Conduct end user training where necessary
- Ensure smooth rollout of projects, complete pre and post-implementation activities in close coordination with scrum master
- Work closely with Technology/Operations/Business teams to resolve any implementation issues and any post-implementation stabilisation work
- Change management
- Adopt agile methodology across squads in the program and implement any DBS Platform Transformation milestones
- Ensure utilization of standards and practices across all projects
- Work with business and support unit users to drive changes to facilitate successful implementation and faster realization of benefits
Requirements
Non-technical Experience
- Excellent communication, presentation and organizational skills and can be relied upon to make prompt, data-driven and reliable decisions
- Ability to multi-task with good analytical and planning skills to effectively manage changing and conflicting priorities
- Demonstrate strong ownership of program/projects and assigned tasks with solid solution-oriented mindset
- Ability to interface on a professional level with a variety of personalities at different levels and across geographies, leveraging solid relationship-building, conflict resolution and negotiation skills
- Self-motivated with positive and can-do attitude, with the fortitude to be comfortable in ambiguous and complex situations
Technical Experience
- Minimum 10 years working experience with proven track record of managing projects to meet stipulated timelines with expected outcomes and quality. Work in transformation programs and/or data analysis would be an asset
- Solid experience in project management, especially in the application of Agile methodology
- Strong background in business analysis and/or root cause analysis, ideally in the Financial Services industry
- Working knowledge of Financial Crime domain and associated business processes, including related applications is an advantage
- Excellent skills in Microsoft Office Productivity Suite, and project management tools (e.g. Jira, Confluence, Octane)
- Minimum Bachelor's Degree
- Project Management (Agile) and/or Business Analyst certification is preferable
Primary Location
Singapore-DBS Asia Central
Job
Digital
Schedule
Regular
Job Type
Full-time
Job Posting
Jan 20, 2026, 4:00:00 PM
