Project Director (Payments and Cash Management)

Role Summary
Our client is seeking a Project Manager to oversee Payments and Cash Management delivery project and to lead project members to collaborate closely with regional and global stakeholders to ensure on-time, on-budget and good quality delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Owner to planning and developing IT Delivery Roadmap for projects and to monitor the execution from end-to-end perspective.
• Be knowledgeable and oversee projects coordination and managing projects interdependencies (resourcing, timeline and budget), supported by other fellow Project managers, including e.g. Project plan baselining, project cards update, Tracking of Actuals against Budget and report any deviation.
• Cross-project resource management between Application Development teams, Offshoring IT teams, vendors.
• Support and assist the Domain Head and/or Programme Manager on budget matters.
• Identifying and address project dependencies, risks and issues monitoring and mitigation (drive negotiations and to problem-solve).
• Work with Project Managers, Vendor and Development teams to address defect leakages, ensure quality control and improvements.
• Provide program documentations and presentation decks for Management and Project Steerco (presentation) reporting.
• Stakeholders’ communications (ITO, Business), and be effective to escalate and manage escalation to ensure projects/program objectives are on track.
• Uphold and ensure the Project and Program deliverance adhere to Corporate Governances and processes.
• Optimizing IT Project Delivery resource capacity as well as aligning deployment / implementation windows managed by Application Production Support team.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related discipline. MBA preferred.
• Minimum 15 years of experience delivering large-scale technology transformation initiatives within the Banking and Financial Services industry.
• Minimum 8 years of experience managing Payments, Cash Management, Transaction Banking or Wealth Management technology projects.
• Proven experience leading complex cross-border payment transformation initiatives involving SWIFT messaging infrastructure, CBPR+ and ISO 20022 programmes.
• Demonstrated experience delivering projects involving Core Banking integration and banking operations platforms.
• Experience managing globally distributed delivery teams across APAC, Europe and offshore locations.
• Strong experience in vendor governance and management of multi-location implementation teams.
• Proven ability to engage senior stakeholders and present to project steering committees and governance forums.
• Experience managing programme budgets, delivery roadmaps and portfolio-level dependencies.
• PMP certification required; PgMP, PfMP, CSM or CSPO certifications will be advantageous.