Corporate Banking IT

**Summary of the position**:
The **Project Manager **is in charge of the end-to-end execution and/or delivery and management of programs / projects within TBI-PBS team in Corporate Banking IT department, along with added responsibility to oversee implementation of project management best practices across the TBI section and mentor/coach other project managers as needed.

The Programs / Projects in TBI-PBS team are aligned with the global cash management strategy of the bank.

Applications under PBS are used by BO users to facilitate acquisition, processing and clearing for domestic as well as cross border payments, keeping track of balances, transactions and reporting.

**Main responsibilities**:

- Manage project throughout the lifecycle: study, design, implementation & closing
- Identify, define and manage project risks, scope, budget, planning and quality
- Adhere to the project governance supporting various committee specific needs
- Setup project management best practices across the PBS team

**Main duties details**:
**Manage project throughout the lifecycle: study, design, implementation & closing**
- Identify stakeholders and conduct various workshops with them towards studying the project needs
- Facilitate solutioning / designing workshops with relevant technical and functional teams
- Plan, manage and monitor various project phases
- Facilitate as testing manager during project testing phases
- Follow up and work with multiple teams under the project: tech/dev, BA, infra, users, support, other contributing teams

**Identify, define and manage project risks, scope, budget, planning and quality**
- Clearly identify project risk and track them actively throughout the project lifecycle
- Identify stakeholders and conduct various workshops with them to identify and define project scope
- Partake budget exercise for the project and manage the same throughout the project
- Align project goals and activities between sponsor/users and project team(s) through a details and transparent planning and monitor progress throughout the project lifecycle
- Define and monitor the quality and performance KPIs for the project

**Adhere to the project governance supporting various committee specific needs**
- Contribute towards defining the project governance
- Organise and conduct committees at different levels and at different project phases
- Manage preparation of various project specific committees / updates (IT, Project, Sponsor, Steering, Vendor)

**Setup project management best practices across the PBS team**
- Oversee implementation of various project management methodologies as applicable and selected for the project: TAO, Agile, PM QA practices
- Define and setup process to monitor project management best practices
- Define and setup process to monitor various project performance KPIs
- Define and setup process to monitor various project quality KPIs
- Define and promote the usage of project management tooling and automation

**Qualifications and profile requirements**:

- Minimum of 10 years of experiences with at least 4 years as Project Manager in a banking IT system.

**Functional Skills**
- Basic experience in MS project or any Project Management tool
- Possess PMP-certification will be advantageous

**Other Professional Skills and Mind-set**
- Work on complex systems and a challenging international work environment
- Knowledge of all phases of IT system development and implementation life cycle (critical)
- Awareness of various software development procedures
- Strong analytic skills to anticipate potential risks/issues
- Basic/good knowledge of manual/automated testing experiences
- Capable to effectively interact with technical team
- Strives to deliver the solution in the most effective and timely manner
- Proactive with excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
- Team spirit - Like explain and share knowledge
- Understanding and respect of cultural diversity