IT Project Manager - Project Management Professional / PRINCE2 certified

Position - IT Project Manager

Work Location – Onsite Menara Southern Bank (MSB)

Competencies and Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management / Information Technology or equivalent.
• Project Management Professional / PRINCE2 certified
• Agile or SCRUM certified
• 8 or more years of Project Management experience with at least 4 years of relevant industry experience.
• Delivered medium and/or large scale projects from project inception through the entire project life cycle.

Key Responsibilities

Review and Monitor Projects

• Review and manage end-to-end project implementation including project planning, risk management, quality control and implementation, vendor management, financial management, management of resource, collaboration and etc. This includes responsible for pending activities / items after project closure that is within the project scope e.g. payments and training.

• Oversee deadlines, assigns responsibilities, and monitors progress of projects.

• Prepare progress reports to key stakeholders on overall project updates, mitigation of risk / issue, project spending and budget, resource management, timeline and other related matters.

• Provide advise on IT governance processes and guidelines and any IT / systems suggestions.

• Manage business and technical problems and propose alternatives or solutions.

Cross Capabilities Management

• Work closely with overall project team (not limited to Business Analyst, Developers, Testers, Infra and Delivery team) to deliver project that is within scope, budget and on time.

• Develop project management methods, tools, standards and project execution processes to be used across the organisation for IT project implementation.

Project Planning

• Prepare / develop project work plan, ensure it aligns with deliverables of project team (incl. vendor if applicable).

• Provide advise and plan for testing, data migration, deployment and training based on technical and business dependencies.

• Establish project team based on the project charter and conduct kick off meeting, PWC meeting and PSC meeting.

• Manage, prepare, track and record all project related documents including changes, updates, minutes, approval and sign-off.

• Collect metrics from Requirement Tracability Matrix (RTM) derived from Business Analyst and Defect Removal Effectiveness (DRE) from the reviewing of defects log under Testing for analysis and reporting.

• To perform resource planning for support, development, projects and subject matter experts

• Plan, manage and coordinate all IT and to project, plan and timeline related activity within interdepartments and vendors.

• Plan, manage and coordinate technical related activity within inter-departments and vendors

• Define the timeline, effort and key activities for the system changes and projects.

• Provide input and review for the integration and conversion strategies.

• Identify involvement of third party system(s) in UAT.

• Capture risk and issue and maintain the risk and issue register.

Project Delivery

• Manage and deliver projects within timeline, quality and within budget.

• Regularly update management via established reporting templates and interval (eg. Monthly and yearly) for support, development and projects.

• Provide timely updates and ensure proper management of business stakeholders / sponsor.

• Ensure project risks are fully thought through and mitigated throughout the project delivery.

Project Management

• Analyse and manage the impacts, interfaces and inter-dependencies of different projects.

• Manage business and technical problems and propose alternatives or solutions.

• Adheres to all applicable procedures, company policies and any other quality or regulatory requirements.

• Stay abreast of new technologies including new project management techniques and tools.

Project Closure

• Prepare project closure and document review form, project performance scorecard, vendor performance scorecard and performance appraisal.

• Upload the endorsed project closure and document review form to centralised repository.

• Coordinate review process on deliverables and obtain sign off (SoW (if vendor involved) BRD, FSD, Test Plan & Test cases).

• Any other responsibilities/tasks as assigned by the management from time to time.

Job Specification

• Familiar with various project management tools (e.g. Microsoft Project)

• Must have strong leadership and people management skills; ability to influence, organisational ability and time management.

• Excellent business acumen and analytical skills.

• Embody the organisation culture and aligns and support of organisation vision and mission.

• Excellent interpersonal, written and communication skills.

• Highly result oriented and can work independently.

• Demonstrates ability to build relationships and work well with peers from both business and technology stakeholders and interact effectively with internal and external parties.

• Ability to plan and prioritise work / projects within the team.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: RM10,000.00 - RM14,000.00 per month

Experience:

• IT Project Management: 3 years (Required)
• Project Management Professional: 3 years (Required)
• PRINCE2 certified: 3 years (Required)
• • Agile or SCRUM certified: 3 years (Required)
• Banking Project: 4 years (Required)
• Microsoft Project: 3 years (Preferred)