Senior Project Manager - BankTech

Summary role description:

Hiring for a Technical Senior / Project Manager – Digital Banking for a leading BankTech SaaS Mobile App platform provider.

Company description:

Our client is a Singapore-headquartered scaled-up digital banking solutions provider, offering market-leading end-to-end Internet Banking / Mobile Banking digital solutions for leading banks across the globe. These award-winning, cloud native, SaaS-deployable applications deliver best-in-class personalized / customized UX and innovative new services built on a secure, scalable digital platform, driving the digital transformation of their Banking clients, helping them engage, retain and thereby extract additional business from their customers, and by supporting efficient processing of $100B+ in transactions annually.

Role details:

• Title / Designation: Technical Senior / Project Manager – Digital Banking
• Reporting Manager: Director – Delivery
• Location: Chennai
• Work Mode: Hybrid (3 days office; 2 days work-from-home)

Role & responsibilities:

• Provide technical, team and project management leadership on complex digital banking projects, involving internet / mobile application rollouts and integration, collaborating with multiple relevant internal and external stakeholders to finalise deliverables
• Steer projects end-to-end, while conforming to project success trifecta and ensuring client delight. 
• Leverage deep hands-on technical expertise relating to Mobile App implementation AND core system integration
• Leverage digital banking domain expertise interface with client stakeholders internal project team members, to steer the project to success in terms of agreed client facing and internal KPI’s
• Be a project management best practices champion with proficient usage of tools like Jira, aligning them with practices for project management excellence
• Ensure team members are informed, have clear goals, and work collaboratively and in partnership with clients and other stakeholders to achieve planned outcomes.
• Drive project execution; track delivery; expect, monitor and control change, own change management; pro-actively seek and resolve blockers.
• Ensure on-time delivery of projects while maintaining high quality standards.
• Implement and oversee quality check processes for all projects.
• Manage projects within agreed governance structures and processes, to ensure consistency of approach and efficient use of resources.
• Conduct progress reviews to give stakeholders confidence that projects will deliver to time, budget and agreed standards.

Candidate requirements:

• 14+ years of experience with minimum 6 years of recent experience in project management of Internet Banking / Mobile App solutions in Digital Banking/Retail Banking
• Proven track record of high CSAT scores for delivered projects/products
• Experience in handling a project team of about 40 people
• Experience in managing projects with P&L responsibilities is preferred
• Experience in managing multiple projects simultaneously, including those with end-to-end integration
• Must have excellent problem solving, presentation and leadership skills and the ability to comprehend, analyse and communicate both macro and low-level pictures to all levels of the organization, including senior management.
• Requires excellent analytical ability, facilitation and communication skills, plus strong judgment, and decision-making abilities.
• PMP certification & Scrum certification are a plus.

Selection process:

• Interview by Senior / Project Manager – Digital Banking
• Interview by Director – Digital Banking
• Interview by CEO
• HR discussions