Senior Project Manager/Proxy Product Owner – Tax Regulatory Projects - Singapore - ANTAES ASIA PTE. LTD.

Description

Job Description:

Contribute to IT initiatives for Antaes Asia clients

As a Project Manager, his/her responsibilities are:

Ensures end-to-end responsibility for achieving the project objectives in accordance with commitments made by the business line.

Facilitate committees and work closely with the project team to deliver the project deliverables, prioritization, estimations and planning.

Prepares, consolidates, and validates estimates and schedules throughout the project.

Maintain project cost without any major drift in overall project costing till end of project. Challenge user needs and provide best optimum solution within budget and capacity.

Planning of resourcing and capacity based on project needs.

Creates partnership with product owners, stakeholders, and transversal teams (security, solution architects, compliance)

Vendor management along with tracking maintenance costs, budgets and offers.

Ensure coherent of the tasks and commitment based on release and functionality of overall product.

Contributes & ensures compliance to project governance, Secure Agile or SDLC frameworks.

Provide regular update/ reporting to his/her Division Manager/Domain Heads

Understand the impediments/blockers faced by the team and help the team to remove as much as possible.

Manage the release planning and management of the deliveries and update necessary tools required. Ensure transparency and adapts plans when changes occur. Prioritizes tasks based on importance.

Able to multi-task and work on multiple projects if required.

As a Proxy Product Owner (PPO), his/her responsibilities are:

Experience in handling any of the given Regulatory topics : German Tax, AEOI/CRS, FATCA or Tax Statement.

Gather the business requirements from the Product Owner/End users

Writes GFS (or user stories) and confirm the understanding with BA who will translate GFS (General Functional specifications) into DFS (Detailed Functional specifications)

Perform analysis with the BA of the squad application and with other applications squads/teams when involved in multi-systems features and interfaces.

Work with the testing team to review SIT strategy, test cases and results to ensure quality of delivery.

Support UAT (reproduce issues, monitoring, fixing with the team).

Assists stakeholders in diagnosing problems and recognizing issues. Takes time to help them identify critical connections, consequences, and alternatives. Recognizes successful adaptations.

Recognizes typical as well as complex and unusual issues, and actions needed to advance the decision-making process. Recommends possible solutions.

Contribute to the promotion of Antaes services on top of assistance provided to clients

Job Requirements:

At least Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related fields

At least 10+ years of experience in the banking IT field (Wealth Management/Private Banking) as a Project Manager/Product Owner/Business Analyst

Good Knowledge of Regulatory AND Tax Reporting with proven experience on any of the given topics: Tax Regulatory, Performance topics , German Tax reporting (like Church tax, Tax Advises, Tax Certificates, Income Statements, Tax bookings), Client Tax Statement Reporting, AEOI/CRS, FATCA, IRS871m

Knowledge of Transactions (Corporate Actions and Securities in particular) and securities transactions

Good Knowledge on Market data providers (i.e. SIX, WmDaten and similar providers)

Good Knowledge on Reporting systems (i.e. SECTRAS, EasyTax, FiTax or similar applications)

Basic Knowledge on Standard Core Banking systems (ie Olympic, TRANSACT, Corporate Actions Systems)

Basic Knowledge on Front Office applications (ie AAA ordering Tools, Client Management Tools)

Excellent communication skills, able to spearhead Steering Committees and engage with end users and stakeholders at various levels

Good understanding of project lifecycle and experience in functional and technical specification

Highly analytical, able to investigate, troubleshoot and determine issues at root cause

Budget steering

Adaptability & Flexibility to work on multiple tasks

Ability to collaborate / teamwork.

Analytical ability

Ability to conduct a negotiation.

IT experience: general knowledge (SQL, PL/SQL, IT Architecture principles, IT security concepts)

Organization and management of tests (SIT / Non-regression, UAT)

Methodology (Agile, Scrum, Waterfall etc.)

JIRA, Confluence, Release Management Tools, Skype, Microsoft Teams, Clarity

Exposure to applications revolving around : AAA, Olympic, TRANSACT, Client Management Systems, Datawarehouse, Batch processing of reports