Project Manager (Loans), Assistant Vice President

Who We Are

As Singapore’s longest established bank, we have been dedicated to enabling individuals and businesses to achieve their aspirations since 1932. How? By taking the time to truly understand people. From there, we provide support, services, solutions, and career paths that meet their individual needs and desires.

Today, we’re on a journey of transformation. Leveraging technology and creativity to become a future-ready learning organisation. But for all that change, our strategic ambition is consistently clear and bold, which is to be Asia’s leading financial services partner for a sustainable future.

We invite you to build the bank of the future. Innovate the way we deliver financial services. Work in friendly, supportive teams. Build lasting value in your community. Help people grow their assets, business, and investments. Take your learning as far as you can. Or simply enjoy a vibrant, future-ready career.

Your Opportunity Starts Here.

Why join?

Embark on your career with OCBC, Singapore’s longest established bank under the Group Operation and Technology Division as a Project manager. We are constantly on the lookout for exceptional individuals to join our team. We promote a culture of openness, teamwork, and fairness. Most importantly, we invest in our people through our programmes that develop them on both professional and personal levels. Besides attractive remuneration packages, we offer non-financial benefits and opportunities to develop your potential within OCBC Group’s global network of subsidiaries and offices. If you have passion, drive and will to succeed, rise to the challenge today!

Responsibilities

• In this role, the individual will display subject matter expertise on project management disciplines covering both Agile and SDLC approaches. He/ She will be accountable for end-to-end delivery of Loan Life Cycle Management domain with the goal to radically transform the end-to-end journey.
• Drive regional and strategic projects through collaboration and building a shared purpose and ownership of project goals both within the team and with key stakeholders.
• Experienced Project Manager with ability to effectively communicate and an ability to deliver complex change programs.
• Drive end results through quality delivery and within the Bank’s change management established guidelines and procedures, with the goal to provide great customer experience and process efficiency.
• Establishing solid working relationships with project sponsors and business stakeholders.
• Communicate effectively with key business partners to understand projects and drive next steps.
• Clearly define and communicate project objectives, cost benefit and success metrics.
• Develop and manage detailed project plans with the goal to pre-empt, mitigate and plan around issues that may surface during the project.
• Participate in collaborative initiatives with team members and global managers, looking for ways to continually simplify, improve, and add value to existing business processes.
• Strong people leadership experience and a proven track record in leading high performing teams.
• Expert relationship management skills: ability to communicate well with diverse stakeholder groups through internal consultation & facilitation.
• Work closely with Architecture, infrastructure and engineering teams through analysis an constructive feedback on proposed technical solutions to ensure alignment to project goals.
• Coordinate budget, costing and resource planning activities.
• Enjoy working with people from different functional expertise on the ground.
• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum 7 - 10 years track-record with proven hands-on experience
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a project management role
• Ability to manage in-house development or vendor teams to work in high-pressure environment and meet tight timelines
• Functional or project management experience in implementing platforms or process improvement initiatives in the Loan Life Cycle domain across multiple geo and entities.
• Strong customer focus: skilled ability to interpret and analyse customer requirements; influence design solutions in-line with Corporate and IT strategy; utilise established internal and external networks to promote innovative solutions for customers.
• Excellent presentation, communication skills and written communication skills able to speak with stakeholders of different levels.
• Experience in designing, analysing and implementing scalable microservices architecture is an added advantage.
• College degree in Engineering, Computing or a closely related field
• PMP or Agile scrum certification is an added advantage.
  
  

What We Offer

Competitive base salary. A suite of holistic, flexible benefits to suit every lifestyle. Community initiatives. Industry-leading learning and professional development opportunities. Your wellbeing, growth and aspirations are every bit as cared for as the needs of our customers.