Project Manager, PDPA (Banking, 1-year renewable contract)

Key Responsibilities

Project Management

• Manage and track project quality, scope, timeline, effort (including estimations, change requests, and complexity), and resources across business, technology, contractors, professional services, and operations.
• Develop and execute comprehensive project plans; analyze proposals to assess schedule or budget impacts and ensure alignment with project objectives.
• Identify, define, and schedule key project deliverables, milestones, and required activities.

Stakeholder Management

• Work closely with Business Project Managers to manage stakeholders, including escalation handling, expectation setting, conflict resolution, and scope management.
• Foster a collaborative project environment across all teams.

Scope Management

• Manage all scope changes, ensuring impacts to timeline or cost are reviewed, assessed, and approved through the appropriate governance bodies.
• Ensure all changes follow established governance processes.

Project Governance

• Prepare investment approval materials and drive the approval process through relevant investment boards.
• Organize and facilitate PSC (Project Steering Committee) meetings and chair PWC (Project Working Committee) meetings.

Risk and Issue Management

• Oversee all project risks and issues, track risk aging, and drive escalation or resolution as needed.
• Implement mitigation strategies and manage change governance processes.

Process Adherence

• Ensure adherence to system development methodologies and frameworks, including timely delivery of required artifacts.
• Partner with stakeholders to maintain compliance with organizational development standards.

Project Reporting

• Measure, monitor, and report project progress with accuracy, consistency, and clarity to stakeholders across all organizational levels.
• Execute project communication plans and review updates from project team members, adjusting plans or schedules where necessary.

Project Scope Management (PDPA Focus)

• Work with stakeholders to gather and refine business requirements, ensuring alignment with PDPA regulations and data protection standards.

Key Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience, preferably within a financial institution.
• Project Management certification or completion of a recognized project management curriculum.
• Strong experience in banking, PDPA (Singapore), Personally Identifiable Information (PII) protection, and regulatory-driven projects (mandatory).
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence, negotiate, and drive alignment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with a proactive, can-do attitude.
• Ability to quickly learn and execute internal procedures and processes in compliance with governance frameworks.
• Proven ability to steer stakeholders toward a common project scope to ensure timely, cost-effective, and controlled delivery