IT Project Manager (Central/IT/up to S$13k) - Geylang

Our client, a well-known Japanese company is looking for candidates for the IT Project Manager position.

Responsibilities:

• Develop comprehensive project plans, including timelines, milestones, resource allocation and dependencies and drive project execution from initiation to closure
• Foster a culture of collaboration, transparency, and accountability, ensuring strong cross functional teamwork and alignment to project goals and objectives
• Effectively communicate project progress, status, and key decisions to stakeholders, including senior management, and provide regular updates on project metrics, risk and dependencies
• Own and be responsible for the successful delivery of projects, ensuring they are completed on time, meeting requirements and within allocated budget.
• Manage project lifecycle, from requirement, design, technical construction, testing, acceptance, training, documentation and implementation, in accordance with the Project Management Process and Methodology.
• Work closely with Project Lead/Owner or Sponsor to drive strategic or major initiatives as part of the organization’s roadmap and strategy
• Participate in pre-project activities such as estimation of project efforts, preparation of high-level project plan with project timeline and resource requirements/staffing and organization of project team.
• Manage relationships across all departments, partners including external parties (vendor and/or outsource partners), defining requirements, agreeing terms, and ensuring delivery in accordance to agreed timeline
• Monitor and track progress of projects and stay on top of the projects to ensure smooth execution.
• Analyse and highlight project risks and develop necessary risk mitigation plans.
• Analyse and highlight project dependencies to pre-empt project issues
• Maintain project issue register to keep close match of the project issues till their resolution.
• Develop, prepare, and deliver Management Information and reports regularly to support decision making
• Take accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and takes appropriate steps to mitigate the risks.
• Maintain awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and technologies in order to understand the risk and better safeguard the company.
• Highlight any potential concerns /risks and proactively shares best risk management practices.
• Main KPIs: Delivery of projects with agreed cost, scope, schedule, and outcome, and they are baselined and traceable

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or higher
• Computer Science or equivalent with min. 3 years of experience in IT Project Management in the financial industry. 3 years of experience in IT development (design, coding, test)
• Experience in managing the entire software development practices, various development methodologies especially the waterfall model development and implementation.
• Strong delivery management experience, with proven track records in managing and steering projects towards smooth execution and on time delivery
• IT Project Management. (PMP)
• Core banking system [Customer Information management / remittance]
• Good communication with project members.
• Possess strong and assertive verbal, written communication and presentation skills.

Registration No.: R23112488 (Julian Nerchan)

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