Deputy/assistant Director, Central Banking

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is Singapore’s central bank and integrated financial regulator.

As central bank, MAS promotes sustained, non-inflationary economic growth through the conduct of monetary policy and close macroeconomic surveillance and analysis. It manages Singapore’s exchange rate, official foreign reserves, and liquidity in the banking sector.

As an integrated financial supervisor, MAS fosters a sound financial services sector through its prudential oversight of all financial institutions in Singapore - banks, insurers, capital market intermediaries, financial advisors, and stock exchanges. It is also responsible for well-functioning financial markets, sound conduct, and investor education.

MAS also works with the financial industry to promote Singapore as a dynamic international financial centre. It facilitates the development of infrastructure, adoption of technology, and upgrading of skills in the financial industry.

Join us now, if you have a genuine interest in making an impact to help shape Singapore’s economic and financial landscape.

The IT Department is responsible for the project management, design, implementation and operational support of IT Applications in MAS. The teams manages and ensures the smooth operations and delivery of IT projects that serves the Financial Industry as well as MAS users.

You will be part of the Central Banking & Devt Platforms division, responsible for managing the systems supporting the reserves and security management systems in MAS. These responsibilities involve supporting front to back office processing of MAS’s in-house portfolios and middle and back office processing of externally managed portfolios..

You are expected to understand and support the linkages between these systems and other market infrastructures such MAS’ internal real-time gross settlement system and SWIFT. You will be responsible to provide in-depth expertise in SWIFT-related business/technical flows and provide oversight of SWIFT technical design and oversee the review of the SWIFT infrastructure architecture blue-prints with collaboration from MAS internal cross-functional IT and operations teams to ensure the architectural designs meet all the requirements.

You will be working in a fast-paced environment that would require the ability to manage multiple priorities and needs of stakeholders, as well as the agility to respond to changes and developments.

**Job Requirement**
- Good Degree with at least 5 years' relevant experience in supporting and/or implementing trade management systems.
- Proven track record in project and vendor management and delivery, and familiar with business processs analysis and re-engineering.
- Proven experience in managing operations, handling of issues, and systems monitoring.
- Strong interpersonal communication and organizing skills to coordinate project activities.
- Ability to conduct technical assessments, respond to timely inquiries.
- Ability to work with details and time-sensitive issues.
- Strong knowledge of payments and securities messaging and their flows is a must
- Good understanding of SWIFT’s Customer Security Program (CSP) and the proposed controls by SWIFT
- Identify and pull together the business process owners and the third-party SWIFT team to oversee the modelling of business process
- Review and develop test cases to ensure the test coverage is comprehensive
- Ability to oversee and advise on best practices as guide to the implementation plan
- Familiar with IT Technology Stack in a medium to large-scale implementation
- Able to work independently as well as in a team
- Knowledge about or experience with SimCorp Dimension® will be an advantage.

As part of the shortlisting process for this role, you may be required to complete a medical declaration and/or undergo further assessment.
- This is a 1-year contract. All applicants will be notified on whether they are shortlisted or not within 4 weeks of the closing date of this job posting._