(Senior) Project Manager - Personal Banking & Wealth Management Technology

Responsibilities

• Drive critical technology projects and initiatives within our bank organization
• Responsible for the end-to-end project lifecycle, ensuring delivery on time, within scope, and on budget governance standards
• Utilize strong project management disciplines within hands-on Agile leadership in acting as the scrum master for dedicated development teams to drive execution and team effectiveness. 
• Lead the preparation work in IT projects initial stage, including technical feasibility study and detailed evaluation, and assisting business users in project justification and prioritization.
• Plan IT related projects in scope, schedule, cost, resources, security, quality, and communication according to the objectives.
• Prepare and review project documentations and other deliverables.
• Monitor and control IT project executions, and resolve the constraints in scope, schedule, cost, resources, quality, security and risk.
• Identify, assess, prioritize and resolve any technical issues in project taking into considerations of project progress, quality, and risk.
• Enforce the system implementation following the system development standards, architecture directives, and security controls.
• Liaise with business users to ensure project scope, schedule, cost and progress as planned.
• Assist related IT teams in planning the resources and schedule, and resolving the related constraints.
• Proactively manage, lead, and guide the following 6 IT parties to collaborate for achieving the project objectives.
  • All related application teams for solution development and integration,
  • System Architecture Office and architects for solution directives,
  • Evaluation and Procurement Office in solution evaluation, budgeting and procurement,
  • Technical-in-charge and PaaS Section,
  • Information Security Section, and 
  • Operation and Production Control Team for DevOps.
• Define the communication plan and report the project status with risk efficiently to the project stakeholders.
• Manage all project related budgets and costs (internal and external)
• Liaise with procurement team to review the costs estimated in technical feasibility study and evaluation, and verify the costs spent in project execution as budgeted.
• Comply with all applicable regulations, rules, codes, guidelines and standards set by regulators and the Bank, and carry out duties with high integrity; and
• Adhere to all established risk control guidelines, procedures and measures to identify, assess, report, mitigate and monitor the risks involved in the day-to-day work
• Perform any other duties as directed by supervisor

Requirements

• University graduate in Business Administration, Finance, Management Information System, Computer Science or related discipline is preferred;
• Minimum 6 years’ work experience in system implementation or IT project management from the banking industry, covering the followings:
• A proactive leader with a “driver” mindset, focused on delivery
• Sound leadership, project management, interpersonal, analytical and presentation skills;
• Strong communication and report writing skills;
• Self-motivated, detail-oriented, mature, independent with excellent decision-making skills and conflict management skills; 
• Good team player and able to work under pressure and tight schedules;
• Project management qualification (e.g. PMP, CSM) is an advantage;
• Experience in managing projects related to agile development, FinTech or mobile is an advantage
• Good command of both written and spoken English and Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin)