Project Manager - Digital Banking Solutions

Summary role description:

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

Company description:

Our client is a Singapore-headquartered leading Digital Banking solutions provider, with a strong track record of designing, developing, and deploying a secure, scalable, cloud-native and SaaS-deployable, UX-rich digital platform for leading banks across Asia, the Middle East and Africa, with ongoing plans to expand to other geographies.

Role details:

• Title / Designation

  : Senior / Technical Project Manager – Digital Banking

• Reporting Manager:

  Delivery Leader

• Location:

  Chennai

• Work Mode:

  Hybrid (3 days office; 2 days work-from-home)

Role & responsibilities:

• Lead Digital Banking (Mobile App) product implementation projects, (including integration with core banking systems already being used by banking clients), leveraging technical leadership skills and project management competencies, working collaboratively on numerous complex digital banking implementation projects, steering project scoping, requirements, design, testing, providing project governance and ensuring adherence to timeline, and budget.
• Leverage deep domain expertise in Banking and experience in digital banking implementation, to interface with client stakeholders and 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:

• 12+ years of experience with at least the recent 6 years leading delivery of mobile-based software solutions for Banking, especially Retail Banking
• Demonstrable acumen in leading fixed bid projects in digital banking, with the ability to balance between scope, schedule, budget, quality, CSAT on the one hand and RAID (risks, assumptions, impediments and dependencies), working closely with client teams
• Must have track record of achieving high CSAT scores for delivered projects/products.
• Experience in handling a project team of 30+ people
• Experience in managing projects with P&L responsibilities is preferred
• Experience in manage 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.
• The role requires exceptional communication skills and an ability to build and maintain working relationships with external and internal clients.

Selection process:

• Interview by Delivery Head – Digital Banking
• Interview by CEO
• HR discussions