Program Manager / Project Manager (Bank Capital Market, Trading, Securities)

Salary: $10,000 – $13,000 per month

About the role

The Program Manager will provide end-to-end program management leadership for a strategic Capital Markets business and technology initiative. The role is responsible for program governance, planning, stakeholder management, vendor management, procurement coordination, testing oversight, implementation management, business readiness, deployment execution and post-implementation stabilization. The successful candidate will work across Front Office, Operations, Risk, Finance, Compliance, Legal, Procurement and Technology teams to drive delivery of multiple business and technology workstreams.

Key responsibilities

• Establish and lead programme governance across business and technology workstreams

• Develop and manage materials for Senior Management meetings, Project Steering Committee meetings, weekly Programme Working Groups, Vendor Governance Forums, Architecture and Design Review Forums, and Procurement and Vendor Review Committees

• Track programme progress against approved timelines and milestones and manage programme RAID logs covering risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies

• Produce executive reporting covering scope, timeline, budget, risks and delivery status

• Lead end-to-end vendor selection and evaluation activities, coordinating RFI and RFP processes

• Develop vendor evaluation approaches, scoring methodologies and assessment criteria

• Act as the primary coordination point across business, operations, risk, finance, procurement, legal and technology stakeholders

• Facilitate alignment of priorities across multiple delivery teams and manage communications to sponsors, steering committees and senior management

• Coordinate business, technology and operational assessments of vendor solutions and consolidate evaluation scoring and recommendations

• Manage implementation partners and software vendors throughout the programme lifecycle, tracking vendor commitments, deliverables, milestones and dependencies

About you

• Minimum 12–15 years of programme or project management experience within Capital Markets, Banking or Financial Services

• Proven experience managing large-scale business and technology programmes involving complex, multi-workstream initiatives

• Strong programme governance, financial management and executive reporting experience

• Strong understanding of Capital Markets products and operational processes

• Prior implementation experience involving trading, securities financing, securities lending, custody, asset servicing, risk management, margin and collateral, enterprise workflow, or regulatory reporting platforms

• Proven experience leading large-scale software vendor selection exercises and managing RFI and RFP processes, vendor evaluations and solution assessments

• Experience managing proof-of-concept exercises and vendor due diligence

• Strong stakeholder management capability across Front Office, Operations, Risk, Finance and Technology

• Strong communication and presentation skills with proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive decisions

• Based in Singapore with ability to support regional stakeholders and willingness to travel periodically when required for programme workshops, vendor assessments, testing and implementation activities

This job advertisement is posted by:

Tan Geok Khim (Deng Yuqin) (R22107857)

A-IT Software Services Pte Ltd

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