Project Manager — Core Processing Technology recruitment
Business Area Description:
Cash Equities Back Office Platform supports a wide range of business activities including Settlements, Book and Records, Regulatory Reporting, Reconciliations, Accounting and Cash Management. The business has kicked off an exciting new initiative to rollout a standardized global system to further increase operational effectiveness, remove dependence on vendor software/hardware and provide a platform for future business and technology growth. Hong Kong as been successfully migrated to the new platform and 2012/2013 will continue the rollouts of the rest of Asia.
Job Description:
This is a Vice President position responsible for Asia's Cash Equities Back Office Platform for the Asia Ex Japan locations: Hong Kong, Singapore and other Regional Trading Centers (RTC), includes Taiwan, Korea, Indonesia, etc. Unique aspect to the role: The role includes many interactions with the Front and Middle Office which allows for the opportunity to see the complete life of a trade.
The position will report directly into the AXJ Owner of the Programme.
The specific responsibilities are:
Franchise Development
- Establish good and effective working relationship with Front Office, Middle Office, Finance and Legal Compliance. There are 53 systems involved with the project and system owners are all over the world.
- Design, Plan and Rollout of Global System
- Analyze existing system flows and map to strategic platform
- Manage the requirement scope
- Manage and track multiple global application teams delivery
- Manage project plan, dependencies, risks and issues
- Manage project finance
- Occasional business analysis work
Immediate Priorities:
- Manage the project dependencies for Singapore and RTC rollout.
- Provide leadership and guidance to the Project Managers in the team.
- Self reliant, fully competent in with the responsibilities.
- Be able to priority and carry out projects independently
- Build a strong relationship with the business
- Gain a good understanding of the system architecture and business flows.
- Good understanding of SDLC life cycle and the JPM IBTech key processes and procedures
Skills
Mandatory Skills and years of experience:
- Min 5 years working in investment banking, with minimal 3 years of project management experience.
- Strong co-ordination skill to work with global application teams
- Strong documentation skill to provide structured analysis and requirement documents
- Strong business analysis and project management skills
- Good middle and back office IB business understanding
- Good understanding of investment banking businesses
- Good technology background to be able to understand complex system flows
- MS Project, Excel skills
Management/Leadership/Communication/Interpersonal:
- Self starter, able to work under their own initiative
- Self motivator with the ability to also motivate others.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Team worker i.e. promotes co-operative working practices, communicates effectively within and outside a team.
- Proven ability to work under pressure and meet project and departmental targets.
- Prepared to get involved in all aspects of a project and team management to ensure success.
- Structured approach to decision making based on rational analysis.
Success Criteria:
- Ability to multitask and work effectively under extreme pressure and stress
- Ability to lead and drive multiple tasks concurrently, locally and remotely
- Ability to work closely with sponsors, users and other technology partners
- Self driven and able to work independently
- Positive Attitude and Enthusiastic
Bases for Measuring Performance:
- Become a partner to the business suggesting enhancements and working together to support a more effective global system rollout
- Be able to organize and chair Project Meeting or Committee and provide regular updates to Management
- Be able to effectively manage and identified project risk and timeliness of project deliverables. Focus on quality, time to market and functionality
- Be able to communicate effectively on technical concepts, especially with counterparts in global team
Education (where applicable):
Bachelor
Language:
Fluent in verbal and written English
Timescales/Start Date:
Immediate