Company:

Sopra Steria is a listed European tech leader specializes in Consulting, Digital Service, and Software. We have 60,000 employees worldwide located in different regions (Europe, North America and Asia), whereby Singapore is the HQ for APAC. EvaGroup Asia Pacific is part of Sopra Steria I2S APAC, in charge of Infrastructure, Cloud and Cybersecurity services.

For this position, we are looking for a Senior Project Manager to assist one of our client – a leading global investment bank.

Direct Responsibilities:

• Act as BA/PM for OMR DEV IT Team, responsible for delivering all APAC OMR Projects Roadmap and responsible to build sustainable OMR Eco-system in APAC, APAC TOKOS DECOMM project to replace TOKOS application with OMR.
• Engage in detailed studies, solution definition and business analysis on the project scope –including accounting, payments and other deal booking initiatives.
• Act as Project Manager/Business Analyst for Regional & Local Initiatives to enhance Local Back Office IT platform for Global Markets and ALMT business lines
• Mentor, nurture and Build a strong Program management team in Asia driving the APAC programs and building a mindset of transversal end to end project management.
• Gather business requirements, perform analysis, write BRDs and Functional Specification for Development teams and prepare Testing strategies, write test cases and scripts, perform testing and co-ordinate UAT with the business users
• Act as an interface between business stakeholder, internal teams, third party vendors, development team and APS teams
• Provide regular updates to project sponsors and business stakeholders, organize project steering meetings and issues meeting minutes
• Collaborate and follow up with development teams regionally/globally to establish IT Solutions and ensure timely delivery of the IT Solution
• Develop good communication channel and good working relationship with Central teams in Europe and ISPL and ability to influence global teams to deliver APAC specific requirements.
• Pre-empt and escalate any risks/issues to management/steering committees in a timely manner
• Provide tactical solution to business in case of tight timelines and collaborate with different stakeholders to provide strategic solution
• Provide trainings to Business Users and APS team before the functional project go-live and prepare support document on the wiki/SharePoint.
• Contribute to the team resource development. Effective transfer and share functional and technical knowledge to teammates.

Contributing Responsibilities:

• Set up strong and maintain Governance framework on the execution of APAC OMR Projects
• Prepare consistent reporting to Senior Management about the project progress, achievements, in‐pipeline activities and risks related to project execution.
• Systematically lead by example for other project managers in terms of implementing Project Methodology for APAC projects.
• Advise Business/Stakeholders on any new projects, any impact on day-to-day activities, identify the potential risks and suggest solution to meet their requirements.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on business knowledge on Corporate and Investment banking Back Office Trade Processing, Settlement & Accounting Chains – FX, Rates, Structured Deposits, Fixed income products, Corporate Loan & Trade Finance is a MUST
• Strong understanding of the front to back booking chain on Booking, Validation, Confirmation, Settlements, Accounting, Reconciliations, PNL and Risk calculations is MUST
• Strong Project Management skillset and expertise in delivering large transformation programs
• Ability to manage change and complexity with confidence and is a Strong team player
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft office (MS Word, Excel & Power point)
• Basic Knowledge on SQLs

Benefits

• Regular team buildings
• 18 leave days / year
• Insurance: GP, Hospitalisation, Dental and Optical Insurance
• Annual bonus
• Working hours: from 9am to 6pm, Monday to Friday
• Training and certifications paths

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