Responsibilities
Strategy Planning
- Develop department's goals, objectives and strategy to meet the bank's business priorities and missions.
- Establish business plan and strategy and drive plans toward set goals and objectives.
- Develop and drive KPI targets & Balance Scorecard and assess performance against set targets.
- Prepare, gather and analyse data (external and internal) to develop financial, operation and project reports for senior management's review and decision making.
Enterprise PMO
- Develop and drive Enterprise PMO structure to optimise portfolio management, report process and risk monitoring criteria etc. for major IT projects and initiatives.
- Organize, coordinate and support IT projects and initiatives and operations and management reporting.
IT Enablement
- Develop and drive Administration Centre of Excellence to optimise administration work in business, IT planning and development of life cycle such as staff management, invoice management etc.
- Develop and drive Procurement Centralization.
- Develop and drive IT Training and Development Program.
- Develop and maintain structured management reporting framework.
Financial Management
- Manage the department's financial, budget and tax management (CAPEX and OPEX) in Singapore and APAC countries.
- Gatekeeper in ensuring adhering to prevailing Financial, Taxation, head office policies, guidelines and operating processes.
- Develop and drive structured resource management framework for HR and budgetary sustainability and adequacy.
- Develop and drive financial management processes or workflow innovation or automation to optimise efficiency.
Project Portfolio Management
- Formulate, improve PPM framework regularly based on industry best practices.
- Support and guide project member to follow, onboard PPM framework.
- Portfolio Monitoring & Reporting by performing periodic spot-checks on selected projects to assess health status across scope, schedule, cost, risks, issues, dependencies, PM best practices.
Requirements
- Master's or bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Manage Information Science, Commerce, Business Administration, Banking and Finance or equivalent
- Min. 5 years of work experience with the FI or banking industry, preferably with the Technology department.
- Experience in establishing and driving Business Management support for Technology department in the Asia Pacific region.
- Proven track record in planning and coordinating with businesses and IT teams in establishing IT strategy and providing regular tracking and reporting.
- Good knowledge and experience in managing IT financial, budget and resources covering CAPEX and OPEX, cost management and optimisation. Ability to control CAPEX spending and lower OPEX expense progressively.
- Good understanding of Banking Technology function and experience working with virtual teams in the Asia Pacific region.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced technical and business environment, and multitask whilst delivering high quality solutions
- Excellent communication, influencing and negotiation skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and is detailed oriented.
- Strong innovative mentality and mindset.
- Experience in Corporate, Institution and/or Transaction Banking is a plus.
- Good understanding of MAS guidelines and Banking Act is an added advantage.
- Familiar in Project Life Cycle and System Development Life Cycle framework.
- Prior experience in establishing training and development framework for IT preferred.
- Japanese language proficiency will be advantageous due to requirements to liaise with Tokyo Head Office.
