Banking Project Manager

Key Skills:

- UAT Coordination and Governance: Oversee end-to-end User Acceptance Testing (UAT) planning and execution, including coordination with business users, test teams, and technical stakeholders to ensure timely and successful testing outcomes.

- Defect Management & Reporting: Track, log, and report test execution progress, including test case pass/fail rates, open defects, and closure rates. Facilitate daily defect triage meetings and ensure timely resolution of critical issues.

- UAT Test Planning & Metrics Tracking: Develop and maintain UAT Run Plans across testing cycles (e.g., UAT Cycle 1, Cycle 2), including execution rate monitoring, resource allocation, and go/no-go decision inputs.

- Scope Management (Scope Of Work): Define and manage the testing scope in alignment with business requirements and functional specifications. Ensure test coverage aligns with agreed deliverables.

- Requirements & Documentation Review: Review and validate Business Requirements Documents (BRD) and Functional Specifications Documents (FSD) to ensure clarity, completeness, and testability of requirements.

- Hands-on UAT Support: Actively support or participate in test execution, where necessary, especially for high-priority scenarios or regression testing.

- Project Delivery Readiness: Maintain awareness of key upcoming project milestones, dependencies, and cutover activities. Ensure testing is aligned with release timelines and production readiness.

- (Wholesale Banking) Credit Origination Platform Implementation: Provide project delivery oversight for platform rollout, ensuring project activities (including UAT) proceed smoothly, without the need for deep domain expertise in credit products.

About the Role

The individual would be supporting and ensuring successful delivery strategic projects under Wholesale Banking Program Management Office PMO. The projects vary from transformative initiatives in the regions, productivity initiatives to risk and compliance initiatives.  The primary responsibility will be driving/ supporting project executions, stakeholder alignment as well as to be a thought partner to the management team. These activities aim to drive strong organizational collaboration, executable strategy/ solutions between various functions in Wholesale Banking Dept and the Bank globally.

The individual will be responsible for the full Project Lifecycle core activities such as:

- Management for planning and execution of key project phases: discovery, design and implementation

- Project issues identification, discussion and resolution at the project working groups and escalation to management, where appropriate

- Co-creating with product owners, in terms of formulating and driving outcomes of business analysis, operating model and problem solving for the respective projects & representing the team in certain discussions

- Ongoing project management and execution for key strategic initiatives by working closely with other Wholesale Banking functions such as Coverage, Products along with Group HR, Compliance, Tech & Ops, Finance, Risk across all BANKING markets

Job Qualifications

- We are looking for an individual with project management or banking process experience or consulting experience. The candidate is also expected to have sufficient financial services knowledge with at least 3 years of experience with a reputable firm or transformation division or project management office of leading financial institutions.

Job Requirements:

- Min.3 years of experience in consulting, banking or other financial institutions with experiences in project management or banking process or consulting

- Strong and proven project management capabilities, with the ability to manage both our internal teams and coordinate with our client partners

- Ability to distill complex problems into clear, concise summaries, while formulating action plans to resolve these problems

- Effectively articulate any risks/ issues and implications that may arise from a project, and provide well-reasoned recommendations with actionable options

- Strong strategic thinking, with the ability to assess challenges, anticipate potential risks and prioritise issues and decisions based on value and impact

- A presence with excellent and persuasive oral and written communication skills

- Strong relationship skills: the ability to influence management and the ability to work across all levels of an organization

- Self-driven achiever with ability to work effectively

- Flexibility and proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex issues

- Excellent analytical skills both in terms of logic of reasoning and analysis of numerical and financial data

- Demonstrated value for diversity, excellence and integrity in all that is done

- Working knowledge of Excel (business analysis), MS PowerPoint (slide writing)