Proficiency in Japanese Speaking Mandatory

Project Delivery Support

Run project from initiation to closure, ensuring deliverables meet business requirements and quality standards
Develop and track project plans, schedules, and resource allocation
Ensure successful delivery of projects, ensuring they are completed on time, meeting requirements and within allocated budget
Prepare Steering Committee materials and review minutes of the meeting.
Follow up on actions and comments from Steco to ensure they are timely acted upon to closure

Process and Methodology

Ensure adherence to delivery methodologies, governance, and control processes
Monitor progress, manage risks and issues, and implement mitigation strategies
Work with the Project Manager (bank’s side) on the overall project plan from the platform, infra team and system delivery & release perspective
Ensure that the list of deliverables are defined and understood within the various system delivery
Provide timely update to the Bank’s PM on the system delivery progress status, risk, issues and escalation
Analyse and highlight project risks and develop necessary risk mitigation plans
Analyse and highlight project dependencies to pre-empt project issues
Maintain project issue register to keep close match of the project issues till their resolution

Stakeholder Coordination

Collaborate with Bank’s IT Project Manager, SMBC and JRI HO PICs, APAC IT and JRIS PICs and HO project team and vendors to ensure alignment on project scope and timelines
Provide detailed project insights, timely status reporting and escalate issues when necessary
Facilitate effective communication and foster a culture of collaboration, transparency, and accountability, ensuring strong cross functional teamwork and alignment to project goals and objectives

Other related Project tasks

Support other project related tasks that may be assigned from Bank Project PM, in line with the resource skills

IT Project Manager (Japanese Speaking)