Associate, Regional Trade Finance Project Specialist, IBG Operations (IBGO), Group COO (WD89705)

Business Function Group Operations enables and empowers the bank with an efficient, nimble, and resilient infrastructure through a strategic focus on productivity, quality & control, technology, people capability and innovation. In Group Operations, we manage the majority of the Bank's operational processes and inspire to delight our business partners through our multiple banking delivery channels. As an Operations Department, we embrace and reinforce the strong PRIDE! culture that is built up in DBS. This is done through strategic focus on training and improving staff capability, empowerment, productivity, teamwork, innovation & technology, managing operational risks & strongly collaborating with our business partners in delivering excellent RED service to our customers. Responsibilities Lead the Regional Trade projects, including collaborate with GTS, Ops and Tech and all other stakeholders to identify and prioritize critical project milestones and deliverables

Develop project plans identifying schedules, specifications, risks and contingency plan Handle multiple large scale and/or moderately complex projects deliverables concurrently

Understand functional requirements, ability to articulate and document user requirements and participates in review sessions with key stakeholders.  Continuously gathers feedback from all project team members to track progress and mitigate risk

Maintain awareness of technical progress and risks for assigned projects, confer with technical personnel to resolve issues and drive corrective actions.

Prepare project status reports and facilitates both technical and non-technical meetings/design reviews in order to keep management and other stockholders informed of project status and other related project issues

Conduct review/ walkthrough sessions with key stakeholders (e.g. Product GTS, Operations BAU, testers and Technology teams) for the following documents:

User stories

Functional specifications documents

Test plan and test cases

Roll-out training material

Track and monitor the production issues with Tech and Ops

Participate in the pre-implementation preparation and post-implementation support exercises including end-user live verification during roll-out.

Requirements Minimum 3 to 4 years of strong project management experience with a proven track record (waterfall or agile model).

Relevant knowledge on Trade systems and experience as system end user is essential

Proven experience in requirements gathering, functional testing and conducting training to end-user.

Expertise in analysing customer requirements and translating the same into user-stories, test strategy and test cases

Possess strong written and verbal communications skills

Demonstrates good work ethics and is able to adapt to changes and is able to deliver within tight timelines

Highly detail oriented, organized and organizationally agile individual preferred.

Ability to operate self-sufficiently under strategic direction

Willingness to adapt to dynamic circumstances

Expert with Word, Excel, Microsoft Project, PowerPoint and others project tools

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