Assistant Vice President, Project Management

About Alliance Bank Malaysia Berhad

Alliance Bank Malaysia Berhad and its subsidiary, Alliance Islamic Bank Berhad, offers banking and financial solutions through its consumer, SME, corporate, commercial and Islamic banking. The Bank provides easy access to its broad base of customers throughout the country via multi-pronged delivery channels that include retail branches, Privilege Banking Centres, Business Centres, Investment Bank branches, and mobile and Internet banking.

We are currently seeking a high caliber professional to join our newly formed Project Management team under the Group Transformation department as an Assistant Vice President, Project Management.

The Role

A successful candidate in this position will be accountable for the following:

• To manage project(s) within Group Transformation programme
• To provide tactical support for key projects within Group Transformation as needed
• Support Group Transformation Lead in driving strategic program execution, in line with business needs and changing market environment
  
  

Job Description

• Plan, mobilise and direct projects of medium to high complexity from initiation to closure.
• End to end project delivery ensuring balanced scope, schedule, budget, risks, outcomes and benefits.
• Work closely with Programme Manager, Group Transformation Management Office to ensure alignment of their project with the wider change portfolio and the Group Strategy, Values and Behaviours.
• Ensure compliance with external regulatory requirements, internal control standards and Group compliance policy.
• Make decisions and lead change initiatives and on occasions manage stakeholder and senior management relationships.
• Establish project governance, including clear sponsorship, checkpoint and steering committee. Exercise independent initiative and judgement in proactively overcoming obstacles to success, dealing with uncertainty and changing circumstances, such as interdependencies, opportunities or risks.
• Lead the implementation and management of significant strategic importance to the bank, partnering with relevant stakeholders within Businesses, Support Functions, Technology Services , Regulators and industry bodies.
  
  

Skills

Job Requirements

• Planning and Plan Management
• Portfolio Definition and Planning
• Risk and Issues Management
• Global Mindset
• Customer Empathy
• Decision Making
• Commerciality
• Lead Self and Others
• Business Analysis and Design
• Business Case and Benefits Realisation
• Change and Implementation Management
• Financial and Budget Management
• Tracking, Reporting and Governance
• Stakeholder Management
• Impactful communication
• Delivery at Pace
• Embracing change
• Achieving excellence
• Collaboration
• Problem solving and Critical Thinking
• Consultancy
• Innovation and Idea Management
  
  

Knowledge

• Excellent understanding of the project lifecycle and best practice techniques
• Familiar with Agile Ways of Working and tools
• A thorough understanding of the purpose, value, culture and fundamentals of Change Delivery
• Strong understanding of banking and understanding of how change drives benefits for the bank, its customers and other stakeholders
  
  

Experience

• Extensive project management skills and experience of managing large and complex projects
• Broad experience in managing large teams of different work streams
• Multiple strong examples of the delivery of on time and on budget projects that achieve business case stated outcomes – a driver with bias towards delivery at pace and controlling project outcomes
• In depth experience of working in a banking environment and change projects
• Good stakeholder management experience, especially impactful communication, influencing and running project governance Implementation, change management and benefits realisation
• Implementation, change management and benefits realisation
  
  

Certification

• PMP / PRINCE2 equivalent project management certification