“IT Project Services – APAC Regional Lead – Director Level” based in Singapore with a top tier Investment Bank – Permanent position

Department Overview:
The IT Project Services Team is a new IT-wide organization, which supports the long-term success of Bank’s IT by providing high quality consulting and project management services for strategic IT initiatives.

The Team will have a Global Lead based in London and Regional Management teams located in the UK, US, Zurich and Singapore. The Project Services Team will actively support the CIO and functional/regional heads in IT transformation projects by providing comprehensive and efficient project work based on best practices.

The Team will also support the application development and technology infrastructure units in CIO-sponsored programs

Main Duties & Responsibilities:
The Regional Lead will be responsible for the setup of the IT Project Services Team from a staffing, budget, and pipeline management perspective. In addition, he/she will be responsible for sourcing, directing, managing and executing complex IT programs.

Primary responsibilities involve:

• Developing the IT Project Services service offering including its mandate, engagement model and marketing materials
• Designing and developing the IT Project Services budget and funding model
• Engaging key IT stakeholders to market the IT Project Services group and identify project demand
• Sourcing internal and external candidates to complete the agreed upon staffing model and targets
• Scoping and appropriately staffing complex IT programs along with key IT counterparts
• Managing, executing and delivering on complex IT programs
• Ensuring the regional IT Project Services team is supported from a project pipeline, training, performance management, and career development perspective
• Coaching, shaping and leading regional IT Project Services team members to become future leaders in the bank
• Managing the progress of all programs against quality standards, targets and budgets and challenging actions, results and activities where necessary
• Effectively communicating with key IT stakeholders on program progress
• Taking responsibility for quality assurance within the program by overseeing that Project Services methodologies, standards and procedures are being implemented regionally
• Establishing credibility with all levels of IT management

Skills and Attributes Required:
The candidate must have:

• Banking or consultancy background (15 years + experience) and a strong understanding of structured program management in the banking arena.
• A proven track record of successfully delivering large complex programs within a banking environment (5 years + experience)
• Strong presentation development skills
• Proven ability to communicate with all levels of Management in a clear, concise manner

Proven organizational, leadership and management skills:

• Ability to command a room and manage big meetings with many participants
• Ability to communicate effectively to senior managers
• Ability to command attention from senior managers
• Ability to produce clear, concise reporting
• Solid strategic analysis, problem solving, issue resolution and decision making skills

Other attributes:

• Delivery focused
• Process oriented
• Attentive to detail
• Demanding
• Strong knowledge of budgeting and resource allocation procedures
• Sufficient credibility to direct project teams and senior management in relation to the program
• Tact, discretion and diplomacy

PRINCE 2 or other structured program / project management qualifications

OVERSEAS applicants with relevant experience are encouraged to apply.

If this opportunity excites you, send across your updated profile to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com & let us initiate the discussion

Feel free to refer if you think someone you know fits well for this role.

Regards,
Srini.

“Commodities IT OpenLink Technical Lead – VP Level” based in Singapore with a top tier Investment Bank – Permanent position

Main Function:
Understand the Commodities IT requirements (interfacing with LDN and NYK IT and business), technically lead the team to develop the requirements and then validates that both the technical and functional requirements have been developed before delivering back to the customer.

Main Duties:
Delivers the functionality requested by the Global Commodities IT teams. The following is included:
- Liaison with the end customer during the requirements gathering and analysis phase. This may entail significant periods of travel.
- Documenting the application to the standards of the Bank.
- Knowledge transfer, training and mentoring the team.
- Design of solution.
- Oversight to the team during construction of the solution.
- Verification of the solution.
- Collaboration with the assigned project manager during the project.

Involved in the technical development of engineers assigned to projects. The following is included:
- Recruitment and hiring process.
- Initial induction of new staff.
- Coaching and mentoring on technical issues.
- Domain knowledge transfer.

Participate in the following management reviews:
- Project Review – review the progress of the project against plan.

Provide proactive involvement with:
- Improving the Investment Banking capability of the team through coaching, mentoring and training.
- Improving the OOA, OOP capability of the team.
- Improving the defined Software Engineering Processes.

Experience required:
- A minimum of 10 years of experience in software development in investment banking or related areas.
- In-depth experience in the Commodities IT domain; strong technical experience OpenLink Endure and Oracle.

Skills and knowledge:
- In depth knowledge of and proven track record in Investment Banking domain In depth knowledge of and proven track record in C#, or Java, or C++.
- In depth knowledge of and proven track record in Software Engineering.
- Detailed knowledge and experience with the following standards/models are desirable: - Front Office, Middle Office, Back Office trading concepts.
- SEI Capability Maturity Model, (CMM).
- SEI Capability Maturity Model Integrated, (CMMI).

Candidate Profile:
- Proven ability to work within a team environment.
- Highly effective verbal and written English communication skills.
- Ability to make good/sound decisions and use independent judgment.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
- Outstanding presentation skills.

OVERSEAS applicants with relevant experience are encouraged to apply

If this opportunity excites you, send across your updated profile to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com & let us initiate the discussion

Feel free to refer if you think someone you know fits well for this role

Regards,
Srini.

“Business Analyst-IT Service Management ITIL – AVP Level” ~ Singapore with a top tier Investment Bank – Permanent position

Department Overview:
The IT Service Management team is responsible for defining global processes and delivering toolset to support the IT organisation growth.

Main Function:
The role is within the Singapore IT Service Management team as a business analyst supporting global IT Service Management programmes and initiatives in maturing IT into a service oriented organisation.

Main Responsibilities:
• Assist in driving continual process improvement across IT Service Management
• Producing structured requirements documentation and developing process flow diagrams to ensure business requirements are clearly understandable for all stakeholders
• Building and managing relationships with key customers
• Assisting in managing the prioritisation process and managing the expectations
The role requires individual with solid business analysis skills, able to work independently with minimum supervision, strong interpersonal skill to collaborate with project teams and key stakeholders, excellent time management and task organisation skill.

Qualifications and experience:
• Solid business analysis experience spanning from project inception, conducting requirement workshop, business and functional requirement specification and system rollout coordination.
• Good knowledge of SDLC
• Proven management experience of small teams.
• Proven experience in project management
• Experience in IT Service Management / ITIL
• Ability to develop tactical solutions using MS Access, VBA and SQL to fulfill urgent business requirements.
• Experience in managing minor pieces of work.

OVERSEAS applicants with relevant experience are encouraged to apply

If this opportunity excites you, send across your contact details / updated profile to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com & let us initiate the discussion

Feel free to refer if you think someone you know fits well for this role

Regards,
Srini.

“Senior Project Manager/Business Analyst – Junior VP Level” based in Singapore with a top tier Investment Bank – Permanent position

Job Summary:
The opportunity is to work in a front office IT environment and help delivery Global Credit Trading IT solutions into the APAC region. You would add to an existing team of FO solution providers with a tight integration to global application teams. The role would require strong liaison with Singapore Global Credit Trading traders to define requirements, work with offshore development teams, and to own delivery of global solutions into the region.

Responsibilities:
• Definition and validation of business requirements, gap analysis and functional specifications with trading desks
• Full lifecycle ownership and accountability of deployment projects from inception to completion (“go-live”)
• Client demand and expectation management (mainly Traders) around the identification of solutions, clarification of requirements and delivery
• Form strong relationships with global application product teams to assist solution delivery
• Partner with business to deliver solutions
• Participate in and drive global team discussions - adding an APAC voiceAssess suitability of global solutions for APAC team contributions and the Business

Qualifications and experience:

Essential:
• Solid front office IT trading environment experience - proven ability to thrive and deliver into this environment
• 8+ years experience of project management & business analysis skills
• 6+ years of fixed income financial markets and trade lifecycle experience (Rates and FX)
• Good knowledge of credit trading (3 yrs)
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence at all levels cross country and culture
• Ability to deal with distributed teams whether in APAC, Europe or North America around prioritisation / development
• Ability to take on undefined and complex pieces of work and turn into successful delivery across multiple time zones
• Strong team work skillsGood people and team management skills

Desirable: Project management certification

OVERSEAS applicants with strong experience in Project Management exp in Wallstreet Systems are encouraged to apply

If this opportunity excites you, send across your contact details / updated profile to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com & let us initiate the discussion

Feel free to refer if you think someone you know fits well for this role.

Regards,
Srini.

“Sr. Project Manager – Wallstreet Systems – VP Level” based in Singapore with a top tier Investment Bank” – Permanent position

Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for managing the book of work around the Wallstreet Systems. This covers working with the user group in terms of developing requirements
- Advising on the mechanics of the Wallstreet Systems and how it can be configured and implemented to meet the business needs
- Working with the development manager based in London you will ensure the priorities are maintained and aligned with the business expectations
- Provide the technical expertise on the Wallstreet Systems. Govern the configuration and system setup in line with functional requirements
- Work with senior management to set the direction of the Wallstreet Systems providing input into the Systems strategy
- Also work with the business to ensure that this strategy is aligned to their business requirements
- Work with the WSS IT development manager for planning / strategy of CTB book of work- Drive efficiency and cost targets through to development partner(s) and ensure appropriate input to budget process to cover cost of delivery through the captive development organization
- Provide the SL3 coverage for the Asia time zone handling all issues escalated from the production support team
- Work with the production support team to improve knowledge and increase the overall level of support

Key Competencies:
- Self starter able to work in a globally distributed team
- Good communicator able to liaise with the Operations project team members around business requirements as well as interface partners on technical aspects of the interfaces.
- Strong problem solving abilities, logical thinker
- Able to multi-task being required to work across multiple initiatives

Key Technical Skills:
- Wallstreet application knowledge both functional and system setup/management
- Experience in the technologies supporting the WSS application integration layer:
SDK : JDK(Core / Web / Enterprise)
Scripting : PERL / Solaris / Java
Database : Oracle (PL SQL)
AppServer : Weblogic (Development and Deployment)
WebServer:Tomcat (Development and Deployment)
Adapters : Open Adapters
Scheduling : Control M
Middleware : IBM MQ (API Development)/ TIBCO EMS(JMS API Development)SourceControl : CVS
Build : Ant

Experience:
- Proven experience managing and working with the Wallstreet Systems
- Proven experience in the software development lifecycle, from requirements analysis, through design, build, testing and deployment of solutions
- Good wide-ranging awareness of IT technologies and up to date with the latest technology trends
- Experience of working in a culturally diverse and geographically distributed team
- Investment Banking/Financial Services experience
- Product knowledge of debt markets covering fixed income, money market, foreign exchange and futures & options

OVERSEAS applicants with strong experience in Project Management exp in Wallstreet Systems are encouraged to apply

If this opportunity excites you, send across your contact details / updated profile to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com & let us initiate the discussion

Feel free to refer if you think someone you know fits well for this role

Regards,
Srini.