Project Manager / Business Analyst (Core Banking)

at  WEPLUS PTE LTD

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s Degree in information Technology or relevant fields.
• At least 5 years of experience in Banking Industry as a Project Manager and/or a Business Analyst.
• Strong knowledge of transaction capture, settlement and accounting booking.
• Good knowledge of financial products and on their underlying (Securities, Payments, Money Markets, Foreign Exchange, Credit, Derivatives and Structured Products, Commodities).
• Regulatory Reporting (e.g. MIFID2, Cost and Charge Reporting to clients).
• Proficient in reconciliation and matching systems (e.g. Intellimatch).
• Experience in payment and transaction settlement systems (SWIFT, SEPA, local domestic systems in Europe and in Asia).
• Excellent communication skills in both oral and written.
• Strong proficiency with Powerpoint, Excel, Word, Vision.
• Familiar with project management tools as well as issue and release management, production and support (JIRA, Service Now, PPM tools, etc).
• Good analysis approach and methodology.
• Entrepreneurial spirit.
• Good track record of past project delivery.
• Good command of Excel VBA.
• CIPT / CIPP / CIPM (Plus).

ROLE SUMMARY

Under the responsibility of the Wealth Management Operations Division Head, the Project Manager / Business Analyst (PM/BA) will structure and lead projects related to Core Banking platforms, Corporate actions processing, payments and reconciliation systems of International Wealth Management activity in Europe and in Asia.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Analyze and structure projects and new requirements coming in the domain with all stakeholders involved in order to propose to the organization the best way to deliver appropriate solutions;
• Lead the elaboration of a functional solution with business stakeholders and concerned IT teams.
• Lead, with the support of technical teams, the definition of the solution and the implementation roadmap.
• Drive the definition of use cases for User Acceptance Test with end users.
• Manage all the decision-making and analysis process allowing to design, validate the solution, and get the necessary approvals in terms of architecture, IT risk and IT Security, budget and capacity planning.
• Coordinate the implementation from a project management perspective and ensure the WMIS Project governance is applied at each step.
• Bring added value to both the IT tools functionality and potential changes to operational processes impacted.
• Ensure that every new solution implemented respects WMIS standards and allows for mutualization / reuse as much as possible between sites. Avoid/minimize specific local solution in favor of standard reusable solution.
• The PM/BA will be the privileged contact for user representatives during the analysis and project phases, and will be responsible for all standard project management tasks such as:
• Preliminary studies and analysis.
• Planning and budget elaboration and follow-up.
• Organize and run dedicated committees (steering committees, project committees, etc).
• Identify and report on project risks, attention points and issues to follow-up.
• Requirements and general functional specifications (GFS): Coordination of workshops, minutes, writing GFS, Review and validation with Sponsors, Presentation and support to Dev Team, etc.
• Coordinate all teams, from same division or other divisions, working on the same project.
• Plan the migration strategy and change management activities related to these new projects.
• Coordinate, supervise and contribute to Users Acceptance Tests (UAT) related to new implementations.
• Ensure the good relationship with business sponsors and stakeholders on each location.
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal third-parties to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artifacts as needed: Functional requirements, Business Requirements Document, Use Cases, Screen and Interface designs, Business process designs.
• Define requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, tasks and workflow analysis.
• Drive and challenge business units on their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plans.
• Strong analytical and product management skills required, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, managers, subject matter experts and technical teams.
• Serves as the conduit between the customer community and the technology teams through which requirements flow.
• Develop requirements specifications according to standard templates & methodology.
• Collaborate with the team’s experts to establish the technical vision and analyse trade-offs between usability and performance needs.
• Be the liaison between the business units, technology teams and support teams.

Scope of project(s):

• Core Banking Platform, Corporate Actions, Settlements and Payments, Reconciliation systems, Regulatory Reporting.
• Transversal projects involving other domains, but with a major impact on Core Banking platform.