Senior Project Manager - Corporate bank

Seeking a Project Manager with strong domain knowledge in corporate banking to lead strategic projects across Asia. This role partners with Product Owners, Transformation teams, and Technical groups to deliver effective, compliant business solutions and drive efficiency within banking operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with internal business stakeholders to identify process challenges or opportunities and propose new initiatives for improvement.
• Perform solutioning; facilitate requirements gathering activities and provide leadership to analysis teams to define project scope; coordinate with technical specialists to align on suitable platform and solution strategies.
• Manage project planning activities, including resource identification, project scheduling, and budgeting; support Product Owners or Project Sponsors in formalizing and presenting Project Charters to senior management for approval.
• Lead project managers through the end-to-end execution of diverse projects, ensuring completion from initiation to closure within scope, budget, and schedule.
• Support teams in managing production applications and drive operational excellence.
• Oversee project administration, including forecasting resource needs, developing timeline estimates, and supporting management in presenting project proposals for approval.
• Ensure consistent governance, robust risk and issue management, and timely escalation to project sponsors.
• Build strong relationships and drive results in a collaborative environment, including managing external partners and offshore delivery teams.
• Promote change management principles and provide guidance across business-technology transformation initiatives.

Ideal candidate:

• Demonstrated experience in corporate banking, banking operations, and project management.
  • Expertise in Trade Finance is advantageous
• Familiarity with business process re-engineering, change management processes and project management
• Experience managing cross-functional teams, stakeholders, external partners, and offshore teams.
• Experienced in scooping and evaluation of projects
• Understanding of process change and AI implementation

EA Licence: 16S8091

EA Reg No.: R1549798