IT Project Manager (Domain in Banking / Financial Services)

Job Description

Upskills is a global consulting firm with a particular focus on IT solutions for financial organizations and Capital Market industry. We provide expert financial software consulting for investment banks and leading financial institutions in Asia Pacific, Middle East and Europe regions. With a strong front to back expertise of the cash, securities and derivatives markets, coupled with an in-depth knowledge of financial markets technologies.

We are seeking a highly motivated IT Project Manager based in KL to participate in a client-servicing role to drive one of our client’s system implementations with the following responsibilities :

• Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
• Estimate project resources, identify project dependencies, plan and schedule project timelines / milestones to develop full-scale project plan.
• Manage full life cycle of IT projects; Make detailed plan and implement IT project from scoping to testing.
• Management of a project team members “from business and IT" as well as external partners such as software vendors.
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals and system specifications documentation, and presentations to the Project Steering Committee.
• Determine the frequency and content of status reports from various project streams, track project activities, and troubleshoot problem areas.
• Contribute to the setup of the capability-based project management (methodology, templates, best practices).

Requirements

Requirements

IT Project Management, Software Development Life Cycle, Banking, Treasury, Wealth Management, Scrum Master, Waterfall, Agile Methodologies