Senior Project Manager

Your tasks

A hands on leadership role for a senior Project Manager who can take ownership from day one, independently lead client and internal stakeholders, and deliver complex financial crime technology engagements.

• Assume end to end project ownership from day one, establishing governance, plans, priorities, controls and stakeholder cadence with minimal supervision.
• Lead complex customer facing enterprise software implementations to agreed scope, schedule, cost, quality, contractual commitments and acceptance criteria.
• Act as the primary contact for client sponsors, senior business and technology leaders, delivery teams, partners and internal stakeholders.
• Translate contracts, statements of work and customer commitments into practical delivery plans, milestones, resource requirements, dependencies and acceptance criteria.
• Own project plans, status reporting, RAID and decision logs, actions, dependencies, change control, financial tracking, forecasts and invoicing inputs.
• Identify and resolve risks, issues, resource constraints and delivery conflicts early, escalating with clear options and recommended actions.
• Coordinate globally distributed cross functional teams and lead Agile, Waterfall or hybrid delivery through testing,UAT, go live and support transition.

• Project governance and stakeholder confidence are established immediately, with clear ownership, priorities and delivery controls.
• Client and internal stakeholders receive accurate, timely and decision oriented communication.
• Risks, issues, dependencies and changes are identified early, actively managed and resolved with urgency.
• Delivery milestones, financial objectives, quality expectations and contractual commitments are managed transparently.
• Actimize or any other product and services knowledge develops rapidly without slowing active project leadership.
• The Project Manager operates independently, maintains momentum through the year end period and leaves projects in a controlled, sustainable position.

Requirements

• Must hold a recognised project management certification such as PMP,PRINCE2, MSP or a similar equivalent.
• Must have 10+ years of experience managing complex customer facing enterprise software implementation or integration projects, preferably inProfessional Services.
• Must be able to perform the full Project Manager role from day one, operate independently, establish delivery control and drive actions to closure.
• Must have experience with financial services clients, data intensive implementations, system integration, migration, testing, deployment and production readiness.
• Must have strong client and internal stakeholder management skills, including executive communication, governance, escalation and expectation management.
• Must demonstrate a smart, energetic, proactive and practical can do approach, with resilience, commercial awareness and sound judgement under pressure.
• Must be able to rapidly learn AML products and services in parallel with leading active customer delivery.
• Must have substantial experience managing risks, issues, escalations, scope changes, dependencies, project finances, customer expectations and delivery recovery.
• Must have experience working with globally distributed, cross functional teams in amatrix environment.
• Must be available to support critical project activities through theDecember year end holiday period, subject to Singapore public holidays and the agreed project schedule.
• Must be based in Singapore and have the appropriate right to work for the contract period.

• Experience delivering Financial Crime and Compliance solutions, particularly AML, fraud, compliance, investigations or case management platforms, will be a significant advantage.

Other

Qualifications and contract information

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Business, Information Systems or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• PMP, PRINCE2, MSP or comparable recognized project management certification is mandatory.
• Six month contract based inSingapore.
• Occasional travel may be required based on client and project needs.