Project Manager - API Banking

Description

Summary: Seeking an experienced Project Manager for API Banking, responsible for managing large-scale projects, coordinating infrastructure, tracking deliverables, and ensuring quality and compliance. Highlights: 1. Manage large scale API banking projects with multiple stakeholders 2. Oversee project scope, requirements, schedules, and risk management 3. Lead client testing, commercialization, and process assurance Wholesale/ Corporate :  API Banking -        Manage large scale projects related to API banking with multiple stakeholders, including delivery teams to implement API banking changes across countries within the region -        Coordinate Infrastructure setup to support API uplift and track deliverables -        Manage API project scope, track requirements, delivery schedule, host weekly project working committee and callout risks, issues and dependencies -        Plan client testing and commercialization with product owner at group and country, manage overall timelines and address risks or issues -        Effectively engage testing teams, across SIT and UAT phases -        Comply and track process assurance, across project tollgates and required artefacts -        Focus on quality of deliverables, and completion in full, active follow up and team engagement skills   Overall Project Management: -        Responsible and track the quality, scope, timeline, effort (co-related to estimation, CR’s, complexity), resources (includes GTO, business, contractor, Professional Services resources as well as operations), -        Develop and execute the overall project plan and analyse project proposals which impacts the schedule and budget variance which in turn contribute to meeting the overall objectives of the project. -        Identify and schedule project deliverables, milestones and required activities and tasks. Requirements ·        Bachelor’s degree in IT, business, finance, or equivalent. ·        10+ years experience in project management in banking, financial, consulting industries with proven track record. External API banking functional and technical experience, regional API banking rollouts. ·        Good problem solver and stay on top of the project risks and issues till closure. ·        Good team player and is able to exercise formal and informal ways to lead the vertical teams in achieving the common project targets. ·        Excellent presentation skills and able to front with the senior stakeholders at C level. ·        Passionate, diligent, and resilient individual with ability if thrive in ambiguity. ·        Previous exposure to Channels API Banking including internet banking, mobile, API banking and H2H knowledge will be advantages. ·        Good to have PMP, Prince2, Agile certification. ·        Performance metrics and challenges in past projects either at banks, Fintech or eCommerce org