APAC Head of Operations Technology (Senior Director) – Investment Bank recruitment
Responsibilities:
• Responsible to further establish and strengthen the operations IT
• Working closely with business and IT partners to determine the functional and technology strategy for the domain and own the medium to long term roadmap to execute the strategy
• Oversee the delivery of programmes and projects in order to tactically deliver the roadmaps and adhere to the agreed strategy
• Proactively manage stakeholders and clients, evaluate their interests and establish effective communication channels with them
• Works with architects and business solution owners on the domain/solution strategies
• Serve as advocate and resolver of post trade services domain issues in cross divisional and cross regional key projects, issues and risks
• Establishes a highly scalable operating model and strengthen the subject matter expertise within the post trade services domain
• Manages the vendors and internal staff to ensure the right mix of skills and experience is available
• Be involved in coordinating regional and cross divisional activities
Requirements:
• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science
• 15+ years of experience in managing IT projects in the finance industry, ideally with an investment/private bank
• 5+ years of experience as a programme manager with great experience in managing challenging stakeholders
• Excellent knowledge of operations technologies as well as from the business point of view
• Profound technical background, able to actively contribute at technical level
• Profound understanding of trading and real time technologies, application development standards as well as project issues and dependencies in order to successfully manage the solution portfolios
• Experience of managing 50+ staffs
• Strong communication, interpersonal, organizational and leadership skills
To apply, please send your CV to matthew@aptitudeasia.com and kerry@aptitudeasia.com