Head of Wholesale Operational Readiness Centre, Group Technology - Singapore - UNITED OVERSEAS BANK LIMITED

Description

Job Responsibilities:

• Gain a strong understanding and keep abreast of Business requirements
• Lead a team providing operational readiness support for technology changes to business and operation users
• Work closely with the Operations and Business teams on developing solutions, defining target operating model, and prioritizing changes for implementation
• Recommend effective solution options that meet Operations/ Business expectations
• Manage and lead governance/ working forums with stakeholders to provide operational readiness update on projects status, risks and issues
• Define areas of High Risk in collaboration with Operations
• Define areas of High Business Values in collaboration with Business
• Assign risk weightage to requirements
• Tailor the testing strategy for the project to align to changing delivery paradigms
• Act as an escalation point whenever a risk to meeting project timelines due to operational readiness activities is raised and provide support for risk/ issue resolution
• Deliver projects to agreed budget, timeline and functionality from inception through to post implementation review
• Ensure smooth cutover for Operations, Business and other key stakeholders
• Review and submit management reports
• Lead human resource planning, development, and staff management
• Identify potential modules for automation
• Prioritize Test Case design and execution in TOSCA
• Learn and master TOSCA tool which is a software testing tool used at UOB to design test cases and automate end to end testing

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's/ Master's degree
• Operations experience is a must (Loans operations preferred)
• Experience in regulatory reporting projects (e.g. Basel, Top Borrowers Group Survey) are added advantage.
• Experience in managing medium sized team (10 to 20 people)
• Minimum 15 years working experience, preferably in Banking industry performing Systems/Business Analysis/Operations role.
• Experience in end-to End Core Banking operations, system support; Treasury and/or Finance.
• Able to take ownership of issues and take them to closure
• Able to create effective work relationships across different levels of stakeholders from various disciplines
• Detail and results-oriented and able to work independently within strict timeframes
• Mature individual with strong leadership, influencing and problem resolution skills
• Strong verbal and written communications skills, including effective presentation skills
• Other relevant skills: Project/Change Management, Agile, understanding of SDLC