Senior It Project Manager - Cash Management

POSITION PURPOSE

To oversee Payments and Cash Management delivery project and to lead project members to collaborate closely with regional and global stakeholders to ensure on-time, on-budget and good quality delivery.
To deliver viable solutions that evolves the Bank’s Cash Management & Payment platforms to drive and support business growth and meet the objectives in the APAC region.

Key Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

Owner to planning and developing IT Delivery Roadmap for projects and to monitor the execution from end-to-end perspective.
Be knowledgeable and oversee projects coordination and managing projects interdependencies (resourcing, timeline and budget), supported by other fellow Project managers, including e.g.

Project plan baselining, project cards update

Tracking of Actuals against Budget and report any deviation

Cross-project resource management between Application Development teams, Offshoring IT teams, vendors.
Support and assist the Domain Head and/or Programme Manager on budget matters
Identifying and address project dependencies, risks and issues monitoring and mitigation (drive negotiations and to problem-solve).
Work with Project Managers, Vendor and Development teams to address defect leakages, ensure quality control and improvements.
Provide program documentations and presentation decks for Management and Project Steerco (presentation) reporting.
Stakeholders’ communications (ITO, Business), and be effective to escalate and manage escalation to ensure projects/program objectives are on track.
Uphold and ensure the Project and Program deliverance adhere to Corporate Governances and processes.
Optimising IT Project Delivery resource capacity as well as aligning deployment / implementation windows managed by Application Production Support team.

Contributing Responsibilities

Vendor management and drive RFPs for new solution if required.
Expected to work cordially with fellow Project Managers within Cash Management IT as well as other Domain PMs to align key departmental objectives. When necessary, he/she will escalate and manage escalations to ensure attention and support are given to mitigate program/project dependencies, risks and issues.
Participate and contribute to studies, methodologies adopted by the department, also to understand and apply seamlessly these standards
Contribute to all necessary meeting organizations and preparation

Requirements

Technical

Strong verbal and written communication skills, attention to details, strong work ethics, team spirit, and exceptional customer serving attitude. Operational experience will be an added advantage
Should be familiar with common cash management, payment market infrastructure, systems and products and industry standards at least in APAC
Experience in working with offshore on different time zones, and ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic and multi-cultural environment
Practice of SDLC and/or Agile Scrum
Technical / programming background will be an added advantage

Behavioral

Result-oriented
Must be meticulous and to go into details, takes ownership and hold task-owners accountable to fulfil obligations in line with the program/project plans.
Possess leadership quality to lead and drive projects, able to work independently and to manage conflicts.
Able to manage stress and pressure and achieve project team cohesion especially during difficult periods in delivery.

About BNP PARIBAS

As the leading European Union bank, and one of the world’s largest financial institutions with an uninterrupted presence in the region since 1860, BNP Paribas offers a wide range of financial services for corporate, institutional and private investors spanning corporate and institutional banking, wealth management, asset management and insurance.

We passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued and encourage applicants of all backgrounds, including diversity of origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion applicants who may be living with a disability. We have a number of internal employee networks in place to empower our staff to act and challenge the status quo.

• BNP Paribas PRIDE is highly active in favour of the LGBTQIA+ community
• BNP Paribas MixCity which fosters better representation of women at all levels of the organization
• Ability, the mutual aid network for employees with a disability or a disabling or chronic illness
• BNP Paribas CulturAll which celebrates diverse backgrounds

BNP is committed to financing a carbon-neutral economy by 2050. The Group is a founding member of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance and has set up its own Low Carbon Transition Group to support its clients through their energy transitions.

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