Project Manager-Business Analyst, Finance Services

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Transformation Project Manager to lead Global Banking Payments and Cash Management IT digital transformation journey. The successful candidate will be responsible for driving the development and implementation of digitalization strategies, overseeing the execution of projects, and ensuring that our organization specifically within the Payments and Cash Management business remains competitive in a rapidly evolving digital landscape

• Develop and Implement Digitalization Strategies: Collaborate with senior leadership to define and implement digital transformation strategies that align with the organization's overall vision and goals.
• Project Management: Lead cross-functional project teams to design, develop, and deploy digital solutions, ensuring timely and within-budget delivery. Owner to planning and developing IT Delivery Roadmap for projects and to monitor the execution from end-to-end perspective.
• Stakeholder Management: Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership, employees, customers, and vendors, to ensure that digitalization initiatives meet their needs and expectations.
• Change Management: Develop and implement change management plans to ensure a smooth transition to new digital processes and systems. Optimising IT Project Delivery resource capacity as well as aligning deployment / implementation windows managed by Application Production Support team.
• Budgets & Forecasts: Support and assist the Domain Head and/or Programme Manager on budget matters
• Digital Literacy: Promote digital literacy across the organization, providing training and support to employees to ensure they have the necessary skills to effectively utilize digital tools and systems.
• Risk Management: Identify and mitigate risks associated with digitalization initiatives, ensuring that the organization's data and systems are secure and compliant with regulatory requirements.
• Metrics and Monitoring: Establish and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success of digitalization initiatives and identify areas for improvement.

• Project estimation, resource capacity plan, and project actual control
• Develop Project Work plan or WBS for delivery monitoring and control
• Responsible for the project team’s coordination (regular follow-up meetings) and communication with Sponsors (SteerCo preparation & presentation)
• Define milestones with the dependency team and stakeholders
• Conduct workshops and meetings with users and Group Finance to identify project requirements
• Work with users of core banking systems and Finance systems
• Collaborate with the team of multiple divisions and IT teams from the Group to drive the project to completion
• Analyze business requirements and Document Functional Specifications and ensure to obtain sign-off from the Product Owner
• Able to challenge the AS-IS situation and propose solutions
• Participate to the full development lifecycle primarily in requirement gathering design, solution design, construction, SIT, UAT, release, and implementation support
• Work with Solution architects, Application SME’s to design functional solutions and if necessary the development team and Business analyst from other Divisions/Assets for cross-division projects.
• Responsible for managing & reporting functional risks
• Get validation from stakeholders after the UAT
• Project post-go-live support

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience required
• At least 10 years of Management with Business Analysis experience in working on Wealth Management Banking
• ExperiencedProject Manager and Business analyst in the IT team forat least 10 years delivering projects for the followingfunctional domain areas :
• Finance reporting process
• Regulatory reporting
• Credit Counterparty Risk
• Management accounting
• Demonstrable experience in a similar role with Financial Services
• Knowledge andworking capability of product life cycle
• Good knowledge and understanding of theinformation flow and various financial services/bank business functions
• Knowledge of theAccounting/Finance system implementation lifecycle
• Experience working throughout the project life cycle; including analyzing and documenting requirements, workshops, testing, and stakeholder management
• Able to conduct workshops with business teams and challenge the requirements
• Strong critical thinker with problem-solving aptitude
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Background from Business analyst and transitioning to PM would be value added
• PMP certified / Scrum certification would be an advantage