Unison Group
Project Manager - Finance Applications
Unison GroupSingapore5 days ago
ContractInformation Technology
Program Management

  • Drive the overall end-to-end program management across data and finance from planning to execution and delivery
  • Partner with stakeholders across Finance, Data and Business units to align priorities, manage dependencies, and ensure successful outcomes
  • Drive the data, design and solution discussions with vendor, technology team and user groups
  • Direct project team of internal and/or external resources to deliver results within agreed parameters

Project Governance

  • Ensure proper governance and impact assessment of scope creep and change requests
  • Organise and chair governance meetings, including preparation of meeting materials and minutes
  • Ensure work deliverables are in compliance with bank policies and regulatory requirements
  • Measure, monitor and report progress to stakeholders

Scope Management

  • Manage all changes to the agreed scope of work
  • Review and assess changes and impact to timeline & cost
  • Ensure all changes are approved

Risk and Issue Management

  • Identify and raise risks and issues affecting the project, including financial or operation and proactively managing them, with timely escalation to relevant parties where necessary
  • Drive the testing strategy and manage the testing cycles, ensuring all critical and high defects are resolved within the testing cycle

Stakeholder Management

  • Manage relationships across all business lines and with external parties, ensuring timely delivery of assigned activities
  • In addition, the candidate must fulfil the following criteria:
  • Must have worked in local or foreign banks
  • Must have implement full end to end projects for finance applications (ie. SAP ERP, Enterprise Budget, Financial Consolidation, Regulatory Reporting (ie. MAS 637, MAS 610))
  • Must understand financial data
  • Able to perform dive dive impact assessment, detailed data analysis and data profiling
  • Able to facilitate and drive workshop discussions with business and tech teams
  • Strong communication skills, ie prepare high quality & concise presentation slides to senior management
  • Strong stakeholders' engagement skills
  • Self-driven and proactive
  • Adaptive to different area in the data and finance space, open to learning new Gen AI technology

Requirements

  • Project Manager with over 15 years of experience leading cross-functional teams and delivering complex projects
  • Solid understanding of project management principles, with hands-on experience in both SDLC and Agile methodologies
  • Skilled in data management and financial systems, with knowledge of system integration and reporting
  • Familiar with accounting standards and regulatory requirements, especially in finance-related projects
  • Proficient in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and Project for planning, tracking, and reporting
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with proven ability to build effective relationships across business and technical teams
  • Highly organized with experience managing multiple stakeholders in large, matrixed environments
  • Confident in presenting to senior leadership and diverse audiences
  • Passionate, diligent, and resilient, with the ability to work through ambiguity and deliver under pressure
  • PMP certification preferred

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