IT Project Manager - Assistant Vice President / Vice President / Executive Director

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Who We Are

As Singapore’s longest established bank, we have been dedicated to enabling individuals and businesses to achieve their aspirations since 1932. By truly understanding people, we provide support, services, solutions, and career paths that meet individual needs and desires. Today, we are on a journey of transformation, leveraging technology and creativity to become a future-ready learning organization. Our strategic ambition is clear : to be Asia’s leading financial services partner for a sustainable future.

As part of the Technology Project Office team, the Project Manager will provide project management oversight for corporate and consumer domain projects that require coordination of development or technology work, along with associated integration components to achieve desired functionality. The role requires hands‑on skills through initiation, planning, analysis, design, testing, implementation, rollout, and stabilization, and regular contact with Technology and Business stakeholders. The Project Manager will provide timely updates to all governance bodies and senior stakeholders on progress, impacts, major milestones, and risks, and will participate in solution architecture discussions to build a Service Oriented Architecture. The role also involves liaising with external vendors, monitoring vendor relationships, and coordinating multiple vendors for seamless delivery. The Project Manager will work closely with Business, Operations, and Technology to deliver projects with agreed scope, schedule, budget, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Prepare project feasibility studies, cost‑benefit analysis and proposals and obtain required approvals from appropriate IT management and project sponsors
• Establish project plans, resources, budgets and time‑frames, and assign tasks
• Identify, track and communicate project progress, milestones, deliverables changes and dependencies within the schedule, costs, issues and risks
• Manage project team’s performance of project tasks, provide technical advice and guidance, schedule assignments and training for development, prepare performance appraisals
• Coordinate project activities across multiple development, product management, user experience and QA teams in a matrix organization
• Secure acceptance and approval of deliverables or revisions to the project from the project sponsor and stakeholders
• Manage vendor relationship and deliverables
• Evaluate and recommend purchases of software packages, hardware and service vendors where appropriate
• Ensure work deliverables are in compliance with bank policies and regulatory requirements
• Plan for and oversee preparation of documentation of each project phase (business requirements, functional specification, project plan, test strategy, test plan, etc), training and support in new / modified applications

Domain Knowledge

Qualifications / Experience

This role requires full‑time, 100% on‑site presence to effectively facilitate team collaboration and work discussions.

What We Offer

Competitive base salary, a suite of holistic, flexible benefits, community initiatives, industry‑leading learning and professional development opportunities. Your wellbeing, growth and aspirations are valued as highly as the needs of our customers.

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