(Senior) IT Project Manager

Job purpose - The job holder leads portfolio management by providing support in planning, coordination of financial objectives and deliverables for the portfolio of both traditional projects/initiatives implemented through Waterfall methodology and customer journey digitization initiatives implemented through Agile methodology. - The job holder collaborates with cross-functional teams within the Technology Division and other divisions in the bank to ensure operational consistency across bank-wide initiatives in tracking and governing progress, managing resources and communicating with stakeholders.Key Accountabilities 1. Project management and implementation - Manage assigned IT projects; Make detailed plan and implement IT projects as assignment from IT Directors. - Estimate and allocate required resource for project - Do regular assessment of project status to timely report to IT Directors, IT PMO, Sponsor and other related stakeholders.- Manage daily tasks of project. Be responsible to evaluate and ensure that the overall quality of project delivery before handing over to customer. - Ensure the engagement of project stakeholders and the cooperation between related parties. - Proactively assess project risks and issues, establish mitigation plan/ resolution plan and timely communicate and escalate to relevant stakeholders. - Keep up-to-date record of project budget/ schedule/ scope/ resource. - Prepare Business case for IT investment projects of bank (if required). - Jointly evaluate select IT solutions (if required) - Manage project dependencies in the respective IT function/ domain as well as communicate and coordinate with other PMs if there is a dependency with projects in other IT function/ domains. 2. Process improvement and Innovation - Be responsible to study new technologies/ latest industry trends, acquired banking domain knowledge; Communicate, share and train to members to improve the professionalism and working efficiency. - Contribute to improve the IT project management process, guidelines.