Senior Project Manager

**Job Summary**:
**Salary**
S$6,000 - S$12,000 / Monthly

**Job Type**

**Seniority**

Senior

**Years of Experience**
At least 10 years

**Tech Stacks**
Strategy Microsoft SQL

**Main Responsibilities**

**Project Manager**:

- Ensures end-to-end responsibility for achieving the project objectives in accordance with commitments made by the business line.
- Facilitate committees and work closely with the project team to deliver the project deliverables, prioritization, estimations and planning.
- Prepares, consolidates, and validates estimates and schedules throughout the project.
- Maintain project cost without any major drift in overall project costing till end of project.
- Challenge user needs and provide best optimum solution within budget and capacity.
- Planning of resourcing and capacity based on project needs.
- Creates partnership with product owners, stakeholders, and transversal teams (security, solution architects, compliance).
- Vendor management along with tracking maintenance costs, budgets and offers.
- Ensure coherent of the tasks and commitment based on release and functionality of overall product.
- Contributes & ensures compliance to WMIS governance, Secure Agile or SDLC frameworks.
- Provide regular update/ reporting to his/her Division Manager/Domain Heads
- Understand the impediments/blockers faced by the team and help the team to remove as much as possible.
- Manage the release planning and management of the deliveries and update necessary tools required. Ensure transparency and adapts plans when changes occur. Prioritizes tasks based on importance.
- Able to multi-task and work on multiple projects if required.

**Proxy Product Owner (PPO)**:

- Experience in handling any of the given Regulatory topics : German Tax, AEOI/CRS, FATCA or Tax Statement.
- Gather the business requirements from the Product Owner/End users.
- Writes GFS (or user stories) and confirm the understanding with BA who will translate GFS (General Functional specifications) into DFS (Detailed Functional specifications).
- Work with the testing team to review SIT strategy, test cases and results to ensure quality of delivery.
- Support UAT (reproduce issues, monitoring, fixing with the team).
- Assists stakeholders in diagnosing problems and recognizing issues.
- Takes time to help them identify critical connections, consequences, and alternatives.
- Recognizes successful adaptations.
- Recognizes typical as well as complex and unusual issues, and actions needed to advance the decision-making process.
- Recommends possible solutions.

**Qualifications & Experience**
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science / Finance or related fields.
- At least more than 10 years of experience in the banking IT field (Wealth Management/Private Banking) as a Project Manager/Product Owner/Business Analyst.
- Experience in working with large distributed IT teams.
- Good Knowledge of Regulatory AND Tax Reporting with proven experience on any of the given topics: Tax Regulatory, Performance topics, German Tax reporting (like Church tax, Tax Advises, Tax Certificates, Income Statements, Tax bookings), Client Tax Statement Reporting, AEOI/CRS, FATCA, IRS871m.
- Knowledge of Transactions (Corporate Actions and Securities in particular) and securities transactions.
- Good Knowledge on Market data providers (i.e. SIX, WmDaten and similar providers).
- Basic Knowledge on Standard Core Banking systems (ie Olympic, TRANSACT, Corporate Actions Systems).
- Excellent communication skills, able to spearhead Steering Committees and engage with end users and stakeholders at various levels.
- Good understanding of project lifecycle and experience in functional and technical specification.
- Highly analytical, able to investigate, troubleshoot and determine issues at root cause.
- Budget steering.
- Adaptability & Flexibility to work on multiple tasks.
- Ability to collaborate / teamwork.
- Analytical ability.
- Ability to conduct a negotiation.
- IT experience: general knowledge (SQL, PL/SQL, IT Architecture principles, IT security concepts) (Plus).
- Organization and management of tests (SIT / Non-regression, UAT) (Plus).
- Methodology (Agile, Scrum, Waterfall etc.) (Plus).
- JIRA, Confluence, Release Management Tools, Skype, Microsoft Teams, Clarity (Plus).